Contents:

• Features
  • A response to ‘To resist is to exist’ by Martin Kemp and Eliana Pinto

    • The recent spate of correspondence over the publication in Therapy Today of ‘To resist is to exist’ by Martin Kemp and Eliana Pinto (March 2009) has raised the ire of many readers, despite the BACP statement that BACP ‘has no position or policy with regard to Middle East politics’

  • Trauma: the unreported casualty of war

    • In the March issue of this journal, two psychotherapists wrote about the psychological impact of military occupation on the Palestinian people. In response, David Bedein reports from Sderot on the effects of Palestinian rocket fire on the city's residents

  • Journey in time

    • With a basis in neuroscience, attachment theory, and developmental psychology, Lifespan Integration is an innovative new body-mind therapy from the USA that’s beginning to catch on in the UK

  • Integrating approaches
    • By combining the compatible aspects of humanistic, psychodynamic and CBT theory, Ariana Faris and Els van Ooijen have created a new teaching model that is applicable to brief counselling and long-term work
  • Make or break

    • Currently in her first year of training, Eve Menezes Cunningham has discovered that therapy courses should come with a health warning: they can seriously affect your relationship with partners, friends, family and colleagues

  • The power of two
    • To maintain high standards of training, Holly Connolly argues that counselling courses need to find ways of maintaining a proportion of co-tutoring
  • Playing at supervision
    • Complex thoughts, feelings and dynamics can sometimes be difficult to put into words in supervision, but creative interventions can help to uncover them and ease their expression
  • Cover feature

    • A recent survey shows that one in seven men will develop depression within six months of losing their jobs, but can a campaign to raise awareness of the effect of recession on men’s mental health shake the grip this stigma has on the British male psyche?

• Regulars
  • Columns
    • Therapist column - Why research matters
      • I’ve just spent an exhilarating and exhausting two days talking to people about research. How can this be I hear you ask?
    • Client column - Making headway
      • After weeks of feeling I was getting nowhere, I can honestly say that my therapist and I have made some headway. In a previous session she had used the word ‘victim’ to describe me and asked me why I continued to allow myself to get hurt
    • Student column - On the spectrum...
      • We are nearing the end of our first year as postgraduate counselling students. In common with other students at this time of year, the pressure is on. It is exam season
  • News
    • IAPT issues statement on counselling in the NHS
      • The Government’s Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) programme has issued a statement recognising two essential roles for counselling and counsellors within the NHS outside of the IAPT programme
    • Perfectionism affects women more than men
      • Women suffer more from feelings of inadequacy at home and at work than men, is the finding of research published in the Journal of Occupational and Organisational Psychology
    • Anxiety UK makes awards final
      • Anxiety UK, Britain’s leading anxiety disorders charity, has been selected as a finalist in the prestigious national e-Wellbeing awards
    • Doctors experience more stress
      • The proportion of doctors experiencing psychological distress is about 28 per cent compared with 18 per cent in the general working population
    • New risk factors for teen self-harm
      • A lack of emotional intelligence leads to poor coping strategies and seriously increases the likelihood of self-harm in teenagers, claims a study published in the British Journal of Clinical Psychology
    • Long wait for mental health help
      • Some people seeking mental health services in Scotland are kept waiting for more than a year, the public spending watchdog has revealed
    • Poverty affects childhood
      • Living in a persistently poor family or with a persistently depressed mother can increase the risk of delayed cognitive development and having high levels of behavioural problems in children, according to a study
    • Art therapies centre to open
      • A new research centre for research in the arts therapies, psychotherapy and mental health will open at Imperial College London this September
    • Impact of fathers’ depression
      • Children whose fathers have mental health disorders are likely to have psychiatric or behavioural disorders themselves, researchers warn in an article published in The Lancet
    • Mental health services for prisoners
      • Polyclinics could become the focal point for healthcare services for people in England with a mental illness who have offended or are at risk of doing so, says a new report on mental health services for prisoners, by the Labour peer Keith Bradley
    • More money for recession support
      • The Government is giving an extra £3m to charities who offer help to families struggling to cope with the recession
    • Feminine looking guys win in the long term
  • Editorial
    • This weekend brought more bad news about men: girls are outperforming boys not only in school but also at university. One commentator is concerned at the implications for society of an army of under-educated and alienated males. Whether or not you dismiss this as moral panic, concern about men, it seems, is growing
  • Letters
    • HPC regulation: more harm than good?
      • Jonathan Coe is absolutely right that state regulation of counselling and psychotherapy will not end sexual and other forms of misconduct
    • Justice and public protection
      • Jonathan Coe’s argument for regulation under the HPC seems, on the face of it, so unassailable, so cogent, and so obvious.
    • Give HPC a chance
      • Thank you for publishing a good spread of arguments for and against statutory regulation in the May issue. They helped me to get off the fence and, somewhat to my surprise, get into the ‘for’ camp
    • Training concerns
      • The issue of regulation clearly touches at the heart of our profession. As the letters, articles and discussions continue, I could no longer keep quiet about what I believe is the greatest threat to our profession and also to those who seek our help
    • Time for a referendum
      • I wanted to applaud the editorial team of Therapy Today for their courage and skill in putting together the May issue. It seems there is a real blast of fresh air blowing through BACP lately. It was heartening to have almost a whole issue dedicated to the subject of regulation –
    • Managing risk
      • I read with great interest Sally Aldridge’s article on HPC regulation in the May edition of Therapy Today, which laid out very concisely the concerns of the Alliance for Counselling and Psychotherapy and BACP’s response to them
    • NICE and logic
      • Nobody seems to have pointed out that there is a logical fallacy at the heart of the NICE guidelines, which put randomly controlled trials (RCTs) at the top of the list of approved evidence.
    • Where are we going wrong?
      • A recently qualified person-centred counsellor, I work mainly in the third sector. It is now the third week of April and I am in limbo. I have been in a kind of limbo since January
  • Questionnaire
    • Roger Casemore
      • A close encounter with death in early adulthood first introduced Roger Casemore to the person-centred approach
  • Marketing Toolbox
    • Digital dos and don'ts

      • In a world where online delivery of therapy and client relationship management may soon become the norm, Clare Jones believes you can't afford to get left behind

  • Day in the Life
    • Passionate about social welfare and environmental issues, Sushila Dhall balances her work as a counsellor with refugees and asylum seekers with a career in local politics
  • Reviews
    • Reviews
      • A selection of therapy-related titles reviewed
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• BACP
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      • The latest news from BACP for members of the Association
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    • Professional Conduct
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    • Professional standards
  • BACP Research
    • Research
      • Reports on research findings, funding and related information