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Dear colleagues,

We want to greet you from this last issue of our legislature. With this bulletin we aimed at two things: informing and saving.
At least one of these two goals has been achieved, the economic one. We have reduced the shipping and handling costs. You will have to say whether you feel informed enough.
We would like to tell you so many things, even poetical ones, because 4 years of legislature and 19 issues of the bulletin have made us grown. Poetically, we would like to let you know that these past four years have been very stimulating –perhaps sometimes too tense- but with the beauty of having learned from the experience. And we want to thank you for the opportunity you gave us when you deposited on us your trust. We can only say, very emotionally, many, many, many thanks.

Candidacies may be presented until March 10, in closed envelopes, addressed to the Board’s Secretary. After March 11 you will receive, by post or email, the composition of the candidacies, so that you can, if you wish, vote by mail or by delegating it to a colleague who will give it to the Secretary of the voting station. The delegated vote must be cast in a closed envelope and put inside another envelope with name, last name and national identification number (DNI). Any other form may be considered a null vote.

Thursday March 11:
ACPP Conference

Thursday March 25

Training Committee: we remind you that March 7 is the last day for submitting your proposals for conferences and seminars for the next academic year 2004-2005

We remind you about the EFPP congress on Groups in November 2004, in Lisbon.

Summary of recent laws and decrees...

Law 44/2003, of November 21, regulating health professions, approved by the Congress [Cortes Generales] (BOE 280) , says in its exposition of motives that
“this law aims to provide the health system with a legal framework that contemplates the different instruments and resources that will allow for a greater integration of health services professionals, regarding prevention and care, both in its public and private aspects, facilitating joint responsibility in the achievement of quality in the health services provided to the people, guaranteeing at the same time that all health professionals meet the qualification levels necessary to continue safeguarding the right to health protection.” (p. 41443).
It later specifies what professions it refers to, by saying:
“this normative applies to two fields: the educative and the one that regulates professional associations. Therefore this law recognizes as health professions those that the university normative (ACPP Bulletin/2) recognizes as degrees in the field of health, and that currently have a professional organization recognized by the government” (p. 41443).

This law derogates all previous rules contradicting it, but when no contradiction exists, the previous rules are still in effect. On October 10 of 2003 the Health and Consumer Affairs Ministry published Royal Decree 1277/2003, which establishes the general foundations for the authorization of centers, services and health establishments (BOE 254). In its considerations it states that
“It is not the aim of this Royal Decree to regulate health professions, nor to limit the activities performed by professionals, but setting the foundations for guaranteeing health care safety and quality. (p. 37893).
Art. 2 defines Health Center, Health Services, health Establishment…  When defining health Activity, it says:
“group of actions of promotion, prevention, diagnostic, treatment or rehabilitation, directed towards fostering, restoring or improving people’s health, performed by health professionals” (p. 37894).
In Annex I it classifies health centers, services and establishments differentiating:
C. 1 Hospitals (centers with patient admission) –which includes Hospitals and Addiction Hospitals of Mental Health and drug addiction treatment-,
C. 2 Providers of out-patient health care, and
C. 3 Health services part of a non-health organization.
When Annex I describes health assistance supply it includes Clinical Psychology. Annex II defines health centers, care units and health establishments. Here it differentiates between:
C.2.1. Medical Offices: health centers where a doctor performs health activities ... (p.37897) and
C.2.2. Offices of other health professionals: health centers where a health professional (different than a medical doctor or odontologist) performs health activities...
C.2.3. Primary care Centers: out-patient health centers that care for the individual, the family and the community, developing functions of health promotion, prevention, diagnostic, cure and rehabilitation, through both their basic means and the support systems for primary care…. (p. 37898)
C.2.5.11 Mental health Centers: health centers in which diagnostic and treatment of mental illness is performed in an outpatient system.
Later it defines “the provision of care by health centers previously indicated [which] can consist of one or several of the following services or care units:
U.69 Psychiatry: care unit  in which a doctor specialized in Psychiatry is in charge of the study, diagnostic and treatment of  mental  and behavior disorders.
U.70 Clinical Psychology: care unit, in which a psychologist specialized in clinical Psychology, within the scope of his/her certification, is in charge of the diagnostic, evaluation and treatment of psychological nature of those psychological, behavior or relational phenomena that affect the health of human beings.
U.71 Health care of drug addicts: multi-disciplinary care unit that provides, under the supervision of a health doctor, prevention, attention and rehabilitation services to drug addicts, by means of the application of therapeutic techniques.” (p. 37901).
Finally, and in order to provide an overview of the legal inputs we are receiving lately, I will refer to the Decree bill which modifies the transitory provisions of Royal Decree 2490/1998, of November 20, in which the official diploma of Psychologist specialized in Clinical Psychology is created and which opens a new time period for requesting said diploma. This bill does not consider the conditions for being a Specialist nor does it define the tasks of Clinical Psychologists; it only deals with the deadlines to avail oneself of said law. The COPC complained against this Decree and both the bill and the complaint can be found in the COPC page (www.copc.org).

III Meetings of the FEAP: “PSYCHOTHERAPEUTIC APPROACH TO PSYCHOSIS”
April 24 and 25 of 2004
Salón de Actos of the Centro de Historia
Plaza San Agustín, 1 – Saragossa

PROGRAM
Saturday 24
9 AM Registration and documentation pick-up
9.30-10.00 AM Welcome and opening of the III Meetings.
10.00-11.30 AM Plenary Lecture by Carlos Gómez Sánchez (Associate Professor of Ethics and Psychoanalytical Theory at the UNED): “Philosophy and Madness”
12.00-1.30 PM Group Psychotherapy Section.
Teresa Santias, Magdalena Crimau, Alfonso Viada. “The inclusion of psychotic patients in a group with monthly meetings”
Julen Perurena. “An approach to dual pathologies in Therapeutic Community”
Antonio Sánchez Casado, Juan Antonio Piñero León. “Experiences with psychotics in group operative therapy”
Jesús Varona. “Groups of psychotics, an alternative in public health care”
Ernesto Fonseca Fábregas. “A psycho-dramatic approach to psychosis”
Víctor de Dios Galocha. “Group psychotherapy of psychotics”
4 -5.30 PM Psychoanalytical Psychotherapy Section:
Mª Carmen Rodríguez Rendo. “Psychotic inheritance and loneliness”
Carlos Tabbia. “An approach to the improvised personality of the psychotic patient”
18.00-19.30 Children and Adolescents Psychotherapy Section
Mercedes Conde Martín. “Early relations and psychosis: an axis for psychodynamic understanding and therapeutic approach”
Alberto Lasa. “Psychotherapeutic interventions in child psychosis”.
Iluminada Sánchez. “The encounter with the psychotic child: the counter-transference situation”

Sunday 25
9.30-11 AM Family and Couples Therapy Section
Norberto Barbagelata, Mª Paz Flores and Teresa Suárez. “New horizons in the family therapy of psychosis”.
11.30 AM – 1 PM Body and Emotional Psychotherapies Section. “Approaches to the weak structures of personality from characteranalytical vegetotherapy” (ES.TE.R.)
Oskar Ekai Pagoto. Gestaltic work with psychotic patients. A psychotherapy experience in a mental health center of Navarra”
Jaime Guillén. “Corenergetics of some psychotic disorders”
Conrado Engelhardt and Carmen Moya. “Bionergetic intervention with chronic psychotic patients”
1- 2 PM Closing

Registration: FEAP, phone 91 554 35 88