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Volume 20
Issue 1
February 2009

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • Journey to Rwanda Laurie Leitch

        • Fifteen years ago Rwanda was the hellish scene of one of the most ferocious genocides in history. A therapist who travelled there reports on what it’s like to confront the unthinkable

      • Is it moral to offer happiness? Simon Fisher

        • In Waiting for Godot Beckett proposes the view that happiness can never be enduring; it comes and goes and is subject to chance and change. Whether in postwar 1953 or credit crisis 2009, is encouraging people to think happy thoughts more like a desperate recourse to denial than a therapy struggling to engage with reality?

      • Understanding anger Linda Wolfenden

        • Mounting evidence links anger with a range of physical, mental and social problems, yet this complex and misunderstood emotion is still relatively ignored in research

      • The teachings of solitude Manu Bazzano

        • With the current emphasis on the importance of the relationship in therapeutic thinking and practice, are we in danger of ignoring the human need for separateness and individuality?

    • Cover feature
      • The trouble with therapy Peter Morrall

        • With the natural world tipping towards collapse and international trade and finance in danger of disintegration, Peter Morrall argues that it’s time for therapists to shift their focus from the individual to tackle human suffering and social injustice on a global level

  • Regulars
    • Columns
      • On chance and change Andrew Reeves

        • Synchronicity does sometimes leave me almost speechless; and I’m not referring to a public house of that name in Bolton town centre that I used to frequent many years ago – but that coming together of linked events apparently by pure coincidence

      • On finding a therapist Emma Munro

        • It’s time to get some professional help. I’ve selfhelped and self-soothed. I’ve read the books, exercised to increase my serotonin levels, kept busy, kept still, found meaning, embraced beauty and nature

      • On becoming a student Martin Halifax

        • We have all served our apprenticeship on NVQ level two counselling skills programmes in HE colleges and universities across the Midlands. We have all taken our best shot at role plays and poured ourselves into the highly personal and deeply reflective journal

    • News
      • The benefits of long-term therapy

        • A meta-analysis of 23 studies reported in the Journal of the American Medical Association finds that people with complex mental disorders who received long-term psychodynamic psychotherapy (LTPP) did much better

      • IAPT for under 18s?

        • The Government is poised to widen its psychological therapies programme to include children and adolescents

      • New online support centre

        • A new online resource for young people affected by self-harm has been launched in response to increasing rates of self-harm in the UK

      • Women and mental health

        • Middle-aged women who juggle careers, children and elderly relatives are suffering from depression and anxiety more than any other social group

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • We thought it was time to revamp our design and to create a more personal feel to the magazine which is afterall in the business of intimate relationships. To that end we have introduced some regular columnists

    • Letters
      • Colonised by antitherapy values Richard House

        • Your interview with Stephen Pilling (Therapy Today, November 2008) revealed just how yawning the gulf is between the state’s policy interventions into the psychological therapy world with their crass programmatic utilitarianism, on the one hand, and on the other, the radically different assumptive worldview that underpins the vast swathe of real world

      • Saying ‘yes’ to research Helen Stangret

        • In the November issue of Therapy Today Steve Pilling discussed the NICE guidelines for psychological therapies.

      • Protecting the public Ian Gilmore

        • I read with interest Nicola Barden’s valedictory article ‘Thinking ahead’ (Therapy Today, December 2008). I was taken with her pronouncement that ‘BACP’s position is to support the principle of public protection and therefore of statutory regulation.’

      • Legal help for abused women Margaret McCooey

        • As a former legal practitioner in the field of domestic violence, I am writing in response to the article by Hilary Abrahams, ‘It’s safe here’ (Therapy Today, November 2008).

      • Medication for ADHD Jan Topley

        • Sadly the interview with Angela Southall, ‘ADHD: the war for our children’ (Therapy Today, November 2008), was an opinion only and unsupported by clear evidence.

      • Editorial bias against CBT Joy Scholes

        • Dr Sandy Richards’ comments regarding your biased editorial position towards CBT (Letters, Therapy Today, December 2008) mirrors exactly my opinion.

      • CBT no panacea

        • I read with interest Dr Sandy Richards’ letter in December’s Therapy Today. While recognising that CBT can be very effective in dealing with some aspects of depression or anxiety related conditions, I don’t believe

      • What about the dissenters? Andy Rogers

        • I was interested to see that in its response to the Health Professions Council’s (HPC) ‘Call for Ideas’ regarding statutory regulation

      • Response from BACP

        • The decision to regulate counsellors and psychotherapists through the HPC is a government one as laid out in the White Paper Trust, Assurance and Safety.

      • Support for trainers Doug Turner

        • Prompted both by hindsight and by my responsibility for supervising those engaged in the business of teaching counselling, I write in response to a recent Professional Conduct Hearing finding on the subject

      • Wisdom can’t be measured William Johnston

        • Andy Rogers’ article ‘The art of therapy’ (Therapy Today, December 2008) came as a relief to me in the midst of the debates about regulation and the NHS. I have long thought that the sort of therapy I lean towards has far more to do with art than science.

    • Questionnaire
    • Marketing toolbox
      • A call to action Clare Jones

        • In the first of her new monthly items, Clare Jones says it's time for you to put yourself out there and market yourself to the audience that needs you

    • Day in the life

      • Jackie Hendy worked as a school counsellor and hub manager for the Place2Be before joining Right Corecare, one of the UK’s largest Employee Assistance Programme providers, as senior clinical case manager

    • Reviews
      • CBT: heart of the debate

        • Against and for CBT: towards a constructive dialogue? Richard House and Del Loewenthal (eds) PCCS Books 2008, £20 ISBN 978-1906254100 Reviewed by Colin Feltham

      • Managing anger with empathy

        • Anger, rage and relationship: an empathic approach to anger management Sue Parker Hall Routledge 2008, £18.99 ISBN 978-0415413480 Reviewed by Chris Rose

      • Giving voice to the bereaved

        • Effective grief and bereavement support: the role of family, friends, colleagues, schools and support professionals Kari Dyregrov and Atle Dyregrov Jessica Kingsley 2008, £19.99 ISBN 978-1843106678 Reviewed by Brenda Fallon

      • Guide for new therapists

        • The practitioner’s handbook Stephen Palmer and Robert Bor (eds) Sage 2008, £19.99 ISBN 978-0761941668 Reviewed by Maureen Perkins

      • Enactment and trauma in practice

        • The past in the present: therapy enactment and the return of trauma David Mann and Valerie Cunningham (eds) Routledge 2008, £19.99 ISBN 978-0415433709 Reviewed by Julia Greer

      • Technology and counselling

        • Using counselling skills on the telephone and in computer-mediated communication Pete Sanders PCCS Books 2007, £16 ISBN 978-1898059752 Reviewed by Alexander Meredith

      • Study aid on domestic abuse

        • Counselling survivors of domestic abuse Christiane Sanderson Jessica Kingsley 2008, £25 ISBN 978-1843106067 Reviewed by Gabrielle Brown

      • Working with bereavement

        • Dying, death and grief: working with adult bereavement Brenda Mallon Sage 2008, £19.99 ISBN 978-1412934152 Reviewed by Anne Gilbert

  • BACP
    • BACP News
      • Client information helpdesk

        • We offer advice on where to look for a counsellor, how to find a counsellor that best suits the client’s needs, and what to expect from counselling

      • Regulation update

        • Discussion at the most recent meeting of the Professional Liaison Group (PLG) for the regulation of counsellors and psychotherapists focused on the structure of the register and the titles to be protected

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