Contents:

• Features
  • Putting counsellors in the frame

    • Services that wish to take advantage of the increasing range of opportunities to provide psychological therapy services will need to demonstrate to commissioners an awareness of the broader context

  • Research, market, close the deal

    • Counsellors will be less vulnerable in the new world of NHS commissioning if they learn to think like the commissioners

  • Win some, lose some

    • Going to tender can also have a very personal meaning...

  • Anthropathological footprints

    • Is there a shared human pathology that we barely touch on in our typical discussions? And if so, can therapy
      produce more than temporary relief?

  • Young trainees

    • With the possibility of counselling and psychotherapy becoming a graduate profession, how is relative youthfulness seen to affect skills and competence? Put simply, can 20-somethings do the job?

  • Daring to be different

    • An exploration of cross-cultural counselling from a bicultural perspective brings into relief the recognition of
      being like all others, like some others and like no other

  • R u still there?!

    • Kooth.com is an online counselling and advice service with a regional focus, proactively meeting the needs of young people

  • Sleeping Beauty gets assertive

    • A short-term group for students who lack assertiveness skills is sufficient to kickstart a new mindset

  • Stocktaking: the feedback

    • A recent appraisal of BACP’s supervision history has led to an interesting postbag containing both criticism and
      suggestion

  • Cover feature

    • A look at the challenges and opportunities facing counsellors in an increasingly open market in health and social care

• Regulars
  • News
    • News

      • News

  • Editorial

    • What is practice-based commissioning (PBC) and why have we devoted a large chunk of this issue to its coverage? The third of our members who work in healthcare settings are likely to have become acquainted with the subject already, especially those who run counselling services

  • Letters
    • Letters

      • We welcome your letters. Letters not published in therapy today may be published online at www.therapytoday.net subject to editorial discretion. Email your letter to: therapytoday@bacp.co.uk or post it to: The Editor,
        therapy today, BACP House, St. John’s Business Park, Lutterworth, Leicestershire, LE17 4HB

  • Questionnaire
    • Competences and curriculum

      • Feedback on the twin issues of core competences and a core curriculum has brought both ‘for’ and
        ‘against’ responses – and some wrong assumptions. Sally Aldridge reports

  • Day in the Life

    • Kevin Friery
      MBACP. Accred individual counsellor and trainer;
      Clinical Director Right Corecare

  • Reviews
    • Reviews

      • Feedback and suggestions for titles for review welcome. Email reviews@bacp.co.uk

  • Noticeboard
    • Supervision

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    • Placements

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    • Research

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    • Networking

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• BACP
  • BACP News
    • News

      • News

  • BACP Professional Conduct
    • Professional conduct
  • BACP Professional Standards
    • Professional Standard

      • Accreditation: a developmental opportunity to consolidate practice, regenerate your enthusiasm and enhance your supervision?

  • BACP Research
    • Research

      • Your feedback is welcome. Please email comments or contributions for the research pages to Kaye Richards,
        Research Facilitator kaye.richards@bacp.co.uk