Mission Statement
- The IFP is a worldwide umbrella organisation for psychotherapy. The Federation is open to professional societies, institutions and individual members.
- The IFP aims to promote, endorse and maintain high professional and ethical standards of psychotherapy in practice, research, and training.
- The IFP fosters a worldwide intercultural, interdisciplinary dialogue and mutual learning among psychotherapists, psychotherapy researchers, psychotherapeutic orientations, traditions, and related sciences.
- The IFP provides a platform for the development of theories, methods and treatment approaches, and promotes the integration of psychotherapeutic thinking in clinical and non-clinical fields.
The IFP realizes its aims by means of
- World congresses (every four years)
- Regional congresses
- Supporting and co-chairing the organization of scientific congresses of their members and/or national umbrella organisations (and under certain conditions supporting them also logistically and financially)
- Supporting scientific activities in research, practice, and training, particularly activities of intercultural relevance
- Information transfer by constantly updated homepage and newsletters
IFP international federation for psychotherapy