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SAPCC welcomes members from a wide range of backgrounds including pastoral care givers, counsellors, clergy, supervisors, consultants and chaplains.
Background
The Scottish Association for Pastoral Care and Counselling formally came into existence in 1995 but its roots go back much further. A Scottish Pastoral Association was founded in 1959 'to promote an exchange of ideas and basis of co-operation among all who regard themselves as exercising a pastoral function'. A lasting legacy of the SPA was the journal CONTACT which was first published in 1960 and which still survives as the major British journal of pastoral studies, its name being changed to 'Practical Theology' in 2008. In 1976 the SPA was absorbed into the recently formed Scottish Institute of Human Relations. In 1979 the first International Congress on Pastoral Care and Counselling was held in Edinburgh and at the second such congress, held in San Francisco in 1983, the Scots attending took the decision to set up a Scottish Pastoral Education Group as a Scottish forum for those engaged in pastoral education (and as a separate Scottish nominating body to international committees). In 1995 SPEG broadened its remit to re-form itself as SAPCC. As well as providing a Scottish forum for those engaged in pastoral care and counselling SAPCC nominates representatives to the European Committee and International Congress on Pastoral Care and Counselling.
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