Contents:

• Features
  • Equal access for all

    • Activist, thinker and writer Linda Bellos has accomplished many firsts in her fight for equality. Now, as a new vice-president of BACP, she hopes to campaign for equal access to counselling and psychotherapy for all

  • Outside the therapy room

    • The majority of people seeking help for personal issues will turn to teachers, doctors, community workers, nurses, priests and social workers for support. It is time, therefore, that serious attention is given to the challenge of supporting a counselling dimension in other work roles

  • A great deal

    • In a bid to strengthen the case for sustained investment in preventative services, a partnership of Hertfordshire-based agencies set out to calculate the extent of savings to the public purse which counselling might effect. Now they think they have the answer

  • Pioneers in primary care

    • What has accounted for the integration of counselling into primary care and how might these developments affect the profession in the future? Three pioneers in the field offer their perspectives

  • Body of evidence

    • A new systematic review finds that counselling in primary care is effective for a wide range of issues, including anxiety and depression, and is highly valued by clients and GPs

  • Welcome to paradise

    • Every 11 seconds a child is orphaned in Sub-Saharan Africa. On retirement, Linda Hopper fulfilled a dream of
      50 years and travelled to Kenya to volunteer at an orphanage in Nairobi

  • Every counsellor matters

    • Applying the five outcomes of Every Child Matters can be a useful way to consider what practitioners working with children and young people need from supervision

  • Mentoring leaders

    • Can mentoring offer leaders of children’s centres the equivalent of counselling supervision?

  • Open forum responses

    • The following feedback is given in response to issues raised by members at the AGM Open Forum last October

  • Cover feature

    • Death anxiety is always with us, lurking in the hidden ravines of our minds. At age 75 and facing his own fear of death, Irvin Yalom tackles his toughest subject yet, and finds great satisfaction in passing something of himself into the future

• Regulars
  • News
    • Challenge to roll out of CBT for depression

      • According to a review of the evidence for various forms of management of depression conducted by the British Association for Psychopharmacology, there is a lack of evidence for cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) being more helpful than other forms of psychological support in mild depression or for its efficacy in severe depression

    • Good childhood inquiry

      • An inquiry by the Children’s Society into the state of childhood has revealed that more than a million children in the UK have disorders ranging from depression, anxiety and anorexia to violent delinquency

    • Call for ban of pro-suicide sites

      • A study published in the British Medical Journal has found that people searching the web for information on suicide are more likely to find sites encouraging the act than offering support

    • Birth order effects IQ

      • According to new research published in the journal Intelligence, first-born children are likely to have the highest IQs, and the last-born the lowest

    • Emotional support for the visually impaired

      • The UK Vision Strategy, launched in April, recommends increased investment in public awareness campaigns and access to emotional support, including counselling and links to peer support networks, for people diagnosed with conditions leading to blindness

    • Clothes maketh the woman

      • Researchers at Queen Mary University of London have found that teenage girls from the Bangladeshi community who stick to their family customs have better mental health

    • Support for children with parents in prison

      • The Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) is calling for local authorities and central government to do more to help children of prisoners maintain contact with their parents

    • Awards success

      • Torbay Care Trust Emotional Support for Carers Scheme wins award

    • Bulimia hits the headlines

      • Eating disorder experts have praised John Prescott’s ‘brave’ confession that he suffered from bulimia when he was deputy prime minister

  • Editorial

    • Here is some food for thought: despite huge expansion in the last 20 years of counselling services in all shapes and forms, the majority of counselling still takes place outside of the therapy room

  • Letters
    • Growing interest in groupwork

      • ‘Group therapy is exciting, economical and effective – so why don’t more people do it?’ asks Pushan Bhatia (therapy today, April 2008)

    • In support of co-facilitated group therapy

      • It was a delight to read Pushan Bhatia’s insightful and encouraging article on group work in the April issue of therapy today

    • Don’t be discouraged

      • I can understand Gillian Powton’s frustration (Letters, therapy today, March 2008), as I’m sure many more newly qualified counsellors will as well

    • Being forced into non-ethical practice

      • I do so agree with Paul McGahey’s view (therapy today, March 2008) on David Veale’s article ‘Psychotherapy in dissent’ in the February issue

    • Writing for all – not just academics

      • I was so pleased to read the letter from Paul McGahey in the March 2008 issue of therapy today. It is so refreshing to find an individual who is prepared to take a risk and talk about subjects that do not follow the ‘norm’.

    • Time for a name change?

      • As people continue to write in questioning the probity of the decision to remove personal therapy as an absolute from BACP accredited trainings, and as the same line continues to be trotted out about other forms of self-development, might I propose one or two ideas to members?

    • Regulation – the big freeze?

      • I am a person-centred/integrative counsellor in training and I agree with the views expressed by Dennis Postle in his letter in the February issue of therapy today regarding the dangers of statutory regulation

    • Missing the point of therapy

      • I am writing in response to Simon Proudlock’s article in therapy today (‘Presenting a united front’, April 2008)

    • Back to the future

      • I read with interest Keith Tudor’s article ‘Therapy is a verb’ (therapy today, February 2008), in which he stresses the importance of changing the ‘grammar of our understanding of the… human being’

  • Reviews
    • Applying query theory to counselling and psychotherapy

      • Feeling queer or queer feelings? Radical approaches to counselling sex, sexualities and genders, Lyndsey Moon (ed) Routledge 2008, ISBN 978-0415385213 £22.99

    • Interesting ideas

      • Affluenza, Oliver James, Vermilion 2007, ISBN 978-0091900113 £8.99

         

    • Essential reading

      • Trauma, drug misuse and transforming identities: a life story approach, Kim Etherington, Jessica Kingsley 2007, ISBN 978-1843104933 £19.99

    • Passionate belief in the archetype of initiation

      • Initiation: the living reality of an archetype, Thomas Kirsch, Virginia Beane Rutter and Thomas Singer (eds), Routledge 2007, ISBN 978-0415397933, £20.99

    • Solution focused approach with AS

      • A self-determined future with Asperger Syndrome: solution focused approaches, E Veronica Bliss, Genevieve Edmonds, Jessica Kingsley 2007, ISBN 978-1843105138 £12.99

    • A professional duty of care

      • Leaving it at the office: a guide to psychotherapist self-care, John C Norcross, James D Guy, Jr, Guilford 2007, ISBN 978-1593855765 £16.99

    • A refreshing approach to assertiveness

      • Assertiveness and diversity, Anni Townend, Palgrave Macmillan 2007, ISBN 978-1403993441 £25

    • An empowering read

      • Freedom to practise volume II: developing person-centred approaches to supervision, Keith Tudor, Mike Worrall (eds) PCCS 2007, ISBN 978-1898059974 £20

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