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About Us

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• What we believe

The British Association of Christians in Psychology (BACIP; previously known as the Network of Christians in Psychology, NeCIP) is a UK-based organisation for Christian professional and student psychologists in academic and applied settings. We have over 300 members representing qualified and trainee clinical, occupational, educational, counselling, and academic psychologists, in addition to secondary school psychology teachers and a strong contingent of undergraduate and graduate students. BACIP is led by a Steering Group, which determines the policy and activities of the organisation. The Steering Group is assisted by a part-time employed Administrator.

Aims

BACIP was founded in 1989, and from the outset we have been concerned with issues of integrating Christian faith and psychology at all levels, from the personal to that of society and its institutions. Our other aims include:

• Supporting and encouraging Christian psychologists in their places of work and students studying psychology as Christians psychology students, particularly when conflicts become apparent;
• Supporting Christian churches (and allied organisations) in the UK by the provision of psychological knowledge and expertise in the service of their ministry;
• Promoting empirical and theoretical research on the interface between psychology and religion;
• Encouraging each other to share our faith;
• Establishing and maintaining relationships with similar organisations in the UK and other countries.

Activities

To fulfil these aims we arrange annual national conferences (usually a residential weekend conference in the spring and a day conference in the autumn) to address issues identified by members and to meet for fellowship and worship; publish a semi-annual newsletter, The Christian Psychologist; maintain a Membership Directory; loosely coordinate a range of regional groups; support students and clinical trainees; offer a member’s only area on the website where resources, book recommendations,  and audio recordings are available; and maintain a lively email group. Sounds good? Find out how to join.

What we believe

We are pleased that BACIP members represent a broad spectrum of Christianity, including Catholic and Protestant, high and low.

Members of the BACIP Steering Group are required to make a statement of faith as expressed in the words of the Nicene Creed:

We believe in one God,
the Father, the Almighty,
of all that is, seen and unseen.

We believe in one Lord, Jesus Christ,
the only Son of God,
eternally begotten of the Father,
God from God, Light from Light,
true God from true God,
begotten, not made,
of one Being with the Father.

Through him all things were made.

For us and for our salvation
he came down from heaven:
by the power of the Holy Spirit
he became incarnate from the Virgin Mary,
and was made man.

For our sake he was crucified under Pontius Pilate;
he suffered death and was buried.

On the third day he rose again
in accordance with the Scriptures;
he ascended into heaven
and is seated at the right hand of the Father.

He will come again in glory to judge the living and the dead,
and his kingdom will have no end.

We believe in the Holy Spirit, the Lord, the giver of life,
who proceeds from the Father and the Son.

With the Father and the Son he is worshipped and glorified.

He has spoken through the Prophets.

We believe in one holy catholic and apostolic Church.

We acknowledge one baptism for the forgiveness of sins.

We look for the resurrection of the dead,
and the life of the world to come. Amen.