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Volume 19
Issue 2
March 2008

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • Good going at the Doncaster IAPT Dawn White

        • Doncaster is known for its horseracing. In 2006, a new race came to town – the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme. But how goes the running?

      • ‘Lotto rapist’: legal fallout Peter Jenkins

        • The implications for therapists of the court’s decision in this case may possibly include renewed concern about note-keeping, the need for expert witnesses, and the ever-problematic topic of the use of ‘returning memories’ as evidence

      • The new black Clare Pointon

        • Is depression a surface symptom that hides underlying layers, or a true diagnostic category? And what about Freud’s mourning and melancholia? Darian Leader, psychoanalyst and author, explains

      • IAPT in prisons

        • A conference was held in February to look at how the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme offering psychological therapies in prisons might be developed. One of the seven IAPT pathfinder sites, based within Dorset PCT, is focussing on offenders and mental health

      • The BACP Counselling and Psychotherapy Awards 2008

        • Has your work in talking therapies made a difference? BACP is once again running its annual awards scheme to recognise, reward and celebrate innovation and excellence in the field of talking therapies, as part of the Association’s commitment to spread and promote best practice

      • Utopia – or thereabouts Clare Pointon

        • Self-compassion and wellbeing, with an emphasis on the importance of the body, are at the heart of Esalen – a community in California with Gestalt principles, and surroundings that enhance authenticity of being

      • More than meets the eye Richard Worsley

        • If group analysis is right about the nature of groups, it is impossible to understand the group without reference to the spiritual

      • All at sea? Bridget Jeffery

        • The changing nature of supervision in primary care begs the question: what should the nature, timing and duration of the supervisory relationship now be?

      • Battle for mental ‘wealth’ Clare Pointon

        • John Battle is Member of Parliament for Leeds West and one of BACP’s new vice presidents. In this interview, he discusses his desire for parliament to prioritise a broader range of mental health services

      • Becoming a BACP Governor Amanda Hawkins

        • One of our newest Governors explains what it means to her to take on this role

      • VideoPaper and assessment Sheila Trahar

        • Traditional methods of assessing counselling skills are time-consuming – VideoPaper integrates the processes

      • IAPT programme

        • A message to BACP members who are involved in the IAPT programme from Sally Aldridge…

    • Cover feature
      • Bringing up IAPT

        • therapy today asks Lord Layard about the genesis of the Improving Access to Psychological Therapies project, how it is expected to develop and what part BACP members might play in its future

  • Regulars
    • News
      • Suicide rates fall

        • The rate of suicide among young men in England and Wales has fallen to the lowest level for more than 30 years, according to new research by the University of Bristol’s Department of Social Medicine

      • Reporting mental health in the media

        • The Government has published a handbook, What’s the Story?: Reporting Mental Health and Suicide, to help journalists report mental health issues sensitively

      • Funding crisis

        • The problem of funding for counselling services has been highlighted by the need for NHS Tayside to make a one-off payment of £32,000 to National Counselling Service Tayside

      • Antidepressants little use

        • The majority of depressed patients are not helped by antidepressants, according to Professor Irving Kirsch of Hull University

      • Food: the mental health factor

        • The Parliamentary Food and Health Forum wants more money to be spent on researching the link between diet, nutritional supplements and mental health

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • The Improving Access to Psychological Therapies programme is very much occupying centre stage these days

    • Letters
      • Through the looking glass Steve King

        • As someone who has led workshops in CBT for humanistic practitioners, I read James Buckley’s article in the December 2007 issue of therapy today (‘Completing not competing’) with mixed feelings

      • Dense defense of counselling Mary Godden

        • Recent correspondence in these pages, some of it verging on the sarcastic when commenting on other people’s contributions, has led me back to James Hansen’s weighty article, ‘Should counselling be considered a healthcare profession?’

      • Need to measure value Gavin Robinson

        • A lot of comment and indeed some concern are around because of the Layard Report and proposals

      • RCTs not the only fruit Irene MacDonald

        • I am responding to the article about CBT titled ‘Psychotherapy in dissent’ (therapy today, February 2008)

      • Totally irreconcilable Shirley Jolley

        • I was very concerned about ‘Completing not competing’ (therapy today, December 2007), in which James C Buckley explained how he brings together CBT and the person-centred approach

      • Cavalier elimination of future? John Rowan

        • I was concerned by the oversimplification in Keith Tudor’s ‘Therapy is a verb’ (therapy today, February 2008)

      • Psychosynthesis research Will Parfitt

        • John Rowan’s assertion in therapy today (Letters, February, 2008), that psychosynthesis ‘has never been strong on research … [and] in today’s world it will not do’ is not correct

      • On the topic of evidence... Nick Totton

        • It is good of David Veale to acknowledge that lack of evidence for the effectiveness of non-CBT therapies is not the same thing as evidence of their ineffectiveness (therapy today, February 2008)

      • Of narratives and self-doubt William Johnston

        • I found David Veale’s article on CBT (‘Psychoptherapy in dissent’, therapy today, February 2008) both odd and predictable

      • If this is dissent...! Paul McGahey

        • I had to smile at the title of David Veale’s article in the February issue of therapy today: ‘Psychotherapy in dissent’

      • Language at odds with approach Ian Plágaro-Neill

        • In February therapy today Richard Worsley wrote an article about person-centred therapy in which he suggested ‘the human person must be understood as a whole.’

      • Infertility evidence Tewes Wischmann

        • In the article ‘ Unexplained infertility’ (February, therapy today) the psychological impact of modern reproductive technologies is described in an empathic and appropriate way.

      • Personal therapy response Tania Hammond

        • In response to the article ‘Personal Development Criteria’ (February therapy today) the purpose of the question ‘Is personal therapy the only route to self-awareness?’ is raised, I assume, to assess whether the practitioner has developed sufficient self-awareness to understand and maintain the high ethical standards set by the BACP

      • Newly qualified, wanting to work Gillian Powton

        • I too ask employers to give newly qualified counsellors a chance Barbara Lee (letters, November therapy today)

  • BACP
    • BACP News

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