Contents:

• Features
  • Care and protection for abused clients

    • Among healthcare professionals in the States, regulation of boundaries is tight, according to Gary Schoener, who for many years was involved with victims of abuse by members of the caring professions in Minnesota. Are there lessons we can learn from the US experience?

  • Safeguarding the client

    • Some practitioners and clients passionately believe that rigorous training, transparency, monitoring and mediation are better ways to safeguard the client than external policing

  • Challenges in the treatment of PTSD

    • The president-elect of the International Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (ISTSS) offers a personal view on therapies for PTSD, in the context of the nature of the condition, current guidance for treatment, the limitations of the evidence and future perspectives

  • Why don’t clients complain?

    • The difference between the number of clients asking about a complaints procedure and those actually using it is puzzling. Is the shame of being abused by your therapist too much to bear? These and related questions need answering

  • Trauma work

    • Survivors of disasters can fall into a vortex of helpless despair – or climb a healing spiral using a variety of resources. One effective tool to aid recovery is the deck of COPE cards

  • TFT and psychodynamics

    • Integration of Thought Field Therapy (TFT) with psychoanalytic work offers a rich potential for healing trauma when words alone are not enough

  • After trauma, what?

    • Any psychological support offered needs to take into account the culture it is embedded in – and be tailored to that organisation

  • Fear of flying

    • The concept of ‘emotional infection’ or ‘emotional pollution’ proves useful in relation to working with this phobia

  • Tried and tested

    • In the interests of ‘what works’ and ‘for whom’, therapy today introduces a new series of creative and imaginative tools that have proved both simple and effective for therapist and client

  • A storm in my heart

    • Group therapy with adult survivors of childhood abuse in the West of Ireland health service

  • How others do it

    • BACP has now researched and documented the CPD and supervision requirements of nine other professional bodies and drawn some conclusions

  • Climbing the staircase

    • A visual and metaphoric way of understanding the effects of depression – which avoids eyeballing the client and leads to curiosity about ‘one step up’

  • Cover feature

    • Do no deliberate harm – neither should we fantasise therapeutic relationships as a problem-free zone. We should probably aim at the middle ground of humanness and wisdom

• Regulars
  • Editorial

    • In a workshop I went to recently the facilitator referred to the ‘therapy police’ which drew nervous laughter from the participants, followed by some discussion about the growing culture of fear in the therapy profession and the effect this has on practice.

  • Letters
    • Sex is neglected

      • Esther Perel’s excellent article on ‘Erotic Intelligence’ again opens up this neglected area of our work just as Petruska Clarkson’s article ‘No sex please we’re counsellors’ attempted to in CPJ, March 2003

    • Doctors who 'cross over'

      • I was interested to read Dr Louis Heyse-Moore’s article ‘Dying to Talk’ (June 2007)

    • Filthy lucre?

      • I was interested to read Steve Woodward's response ('Let the bargaining begin' – letters, July 2007) to my email ('A paradoxical profesion', June 2007)

    • Pebble on my wing

      • I would like to thank the many people who emailed and responded to my article in June’s edition of therapy today.

    • Personal therapy – a structural or functional perspective?

      • I note with interest and a sense of déjà vu the dialogue in the letters pages concerning whether personal therapy should be defined as an explicit requirement of accredited courses

    • Bereavement counselling – a wider remit

      • I wish to respond to Sue Marshall’s article ‘Bereavement counselling – is it viable?’ in the June 2007 issue of therapy today. From my own experience as co-ordinator of a bereavement service, I define bereavement counselling much more broadly than the limited model

    • Wandsworth Bereavement Service

      • With reference to Christine Fremantle’s letter in the June Issue

    • Impact of bereavement

      • Geoff Warburton, writing in response to Sue Marshall’s ‘Bereavement counselling – is it viable?’ (therapy today, June 2007)

  • Reviews
    • Sexuality and attachment in clinical practice

      • Sexuality and attachment in clinical practice Kate White, Joseph Schwartz (eds) Karnac Books 2007 ISBN 978-1855753921 £9.99

    • I had a black dog

      • I had a black dog Matthew Johnstone, Constable and Robinson 2007, ISBN 978-1845295899 £6.99

    • Introduction to CBT

      • An introduction to cognitive behaviour therapy David Westbrook, Helen Kennerley, Joan Kirk, Sage Publications 2007 ISBN 978-1412908405 £19.99

    • The therapeutic relationship in the cognitive behavioural psychotherapies

      • The therapeutic relationship in the cognitive behavioural psychotherapies Paul Gilbert, Robert Leahy (eds) Routledge 2007, ISBN 978-0415384377 £27.95

    • Just war: psychology and terrorism

      • Just war: psychology and terrorism Ron Roberts (ed) PCCS Books 2007 ISBN 978-1898059929 £18.00

    • Learning from life: becoming a psychoanalyst

      • Learning from life: becoming a psychoanalyst Patrick Casement Routledge 2006 ISBN 978-415399319 £17.99

    • How to help people overcome drugs and alcohol problems

      • Empathy for the devil: how to help people overcome drugs and alcohol problems Phil Harris Russell House Publishing 2007 ISBN 978-1903855546 £24.95

    • The paradox of countertransference

      • The paradox of countertransference: you and me, here and now Carol Holmes Palgrave Macmillan 2005 ISBN 978-0333929650 £19.99

    • Death of a parent

      • Death of a parent: transition to a new adult identity Debra Umberson Cambridge University Press 2007 ISBN 978-0521012966 £15.99

  • Noticeboard
    • Supervision

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    • Placements

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    • Research

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    • Networking

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• BACP
  • BACP News
    • AGM 2006

      • At the 2006 AGM, members present had the opportunity to raise any queries or issues of concern. The issues that were brought up have been considered by the Board of Governors, other volunteer Chairs and relevant staff – and the points made, together with the responses, appear below

    • BACP News

      • News

  • BACP Professional Standards
    • Professional standards

      • Professional standards

  • BACP Research
    • Developing a methodological framework for systematic single-case research in counselling and psychotherapy

      • SCOTCON, along with BACP, secures ESRC research seminar grant

    • Call for papers 14th Annual BACP Research Conference

      • ‘Research and regulation: towards a knowledge-based profession’ 9-10 May 2008

    • BACP bursaries

      • Psychological Therapies in the NHS: Science, Practice and Policy 30 November – 1 December 2007, Savoy Place, London