Contents:

• Features
  • Out of Ireland – stories of migration

    • People of Irish origin in Britain are twice as likely as those born in Britain to be hospitalised for psychological distress. We report on an innovative and culturally sensitive service for this community

  • The adult and the child

    • Peter Wilson spoke at BACP’s annual conference last year about how adults find ways to maintain a therapeutic space with younger children – and offers two examples of reading the communication in play

  • Training to work with children

    • Margot Sunderland – integrative child psychotherapist and Director of Education and Training at the Centre for Child Mental Health – discusses training for work with children

  • Regulating the risk of being human

    • Therapy is a healing, but inherently risky, business. In the drive to be accepted as ‘competent’, will we deprive our clients of the chance to meet with us, not only as professionals but also as authentic, complex and vulnerable human beings?

  • Boundaries and regulation

    • Val Potter discusses the importance to a profession of having boundaries – and the crucial link with regulation

  • The last days of empire: the demise of a profession?

    • Rather than succumb to the present state of flux and sink into a backwater, perhaps therapists should develop a diverse skills portfolio, gather evidence as a matter of routine, and promote themselves unapologetically

  • Rural reality on drug work

    • The process of delivering effective drug counselling services is being hampered by official interference

  • Prison work: the dynamics of containment

    • Casement’s concept of the triadic relationship helps the counsellor hold the outside out and the inside in

  • Locked in

    • Working at a Young Offender Institution leads to thoughts about the transformational potential of person-centred counselling for any inmate who chooses to take part in the relationship

  • The loneliness of leading

    • There is a sense in which the group facilitator can never be part of the group but sits aside, even while facilitating and enjoying members’ progress

  • Cover feature

    • It may come as a surprise to discover that Europe is leading the way in the development of Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing (EMDR) psychotherapy for children and adolescents, and in teaching therapists how to adapt the adult protocol¹ for the developmental needs of childhood. How has this been achieved?

• Regulars
  • News
    • News

      • News

  • Editorial

    • In case you haven’t noticed – and I fear many people have not – there is a debate going on about the development in the profession of core competences and a core curriculum.

  • Letters
    • Open letter to the membership

      • Nicola Barden, BACP Chair

    • 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

    • Good heavens

      • What on earth is happening to therapy today (March 2007)? Much as I heartily endorse David Petherbridge’s call for freedom of expression (even though it may offend), I was dismayed to find a veritable sermon by Michael Forster in the same issue.

  • Questionnaire
    • Statutory regulation and a core curriculum: members’ questions and BACP answers

      • Lack of information leads to anxiety. Although there is still much speculation, answers can be provided to some common queries

  • Reviews
    • Reviews

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

  • Noticeboard
    • Supervision

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    • Research

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    • Networking

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• BACP
  • BACP News
    • News

      • Divisional news

  • BACP Professional Conduct
    • Professional conduct
  • BACP Professional Standards
    • Professional standards

      • Professional standards

  • BACP Research
    • Research

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        Please email your comments or contributions for the research pages to Kaye Richards, Research Facilitator
        kaye.richards@bacp.co.uk