Contents:

• Features
  • The therapeutic relationship: a view from existential psychotherapy

    • Part of a keynote address to BACP’s Annual Conference, 2006

  • Transactional Analysis – a relational psychotherapy

    • A Guest Lecture at the 2006 BACP conference summarised the background to the developing field of relational psychotherapies,and introduced Relational Transactional Analysis

  • Not in front of the students

    • Would you send your trainees into the workplace to confront a range of clients about whose issues they know nothing? It’s happening – but is it ethical?

  • Heterosexuals are not the only couples

    • How friendly is relationship therapy training towards LGBT therapists and clients?

  • The consulting room: whose is it?

    • We may feel slight niggles about where we have to counsel. Or we may have chosen the room ourselves and arranged it. Does it make any difference who owns it?

  • Nightmare or needed strategy?

    • Counselling in the client’s home may seem like madness, but it widens access to therapy and provides material that would otherwise be unavailable for processing

  • Spinning the threads: the art of conversation

    • Groupwork enables students to find a voice – both socially and in their writing

  • Stocktaking

    • BACP’s recent supervision history is laid out for reappraisal and comment

  • Staying legal

    • New legislation introduced a year ago affects how we work with clients who introduce adoption issues

  • The future of counselling and psychotherapy: responding to the government agenda

    • It is now very clear that the Government is moving rapidly towards regulating psychological therapies and that core competences will form a vital aspect of standard setting. In response BACP has commissioned an independent report to identify core competences for counselling and psychotherapy

  • Cover feature

    • The idea of democracy is relevant to our inner and outer worlds, our behaviour as world citizens, our client work – even the process of regulation

• Regulars
  • Editorial

    • Many of the articles in this issue made me feel inspired but also rather nostalgic. Sandi Toksvig, for example, tells the story of how she became acquainted with therapy while growing up in the States in the 1970s. Women’s groups – remember them? – were happening and therapy and feminism were helping women make radical changes in their lives. Therapy was a great support to Sandi in her determination to be herself when her university tried to throw her out for being gay.

  • Letters
    • Letters

      • Letter

  • Questionnaire
    • New vice president Sandi Toksvig

      • Writer, broadcaster and new BACP vice president – Sandi Toksvig shares her vision for a country where listening is the norm

        Interview by Clare Pointon

  • Reviews
    • Reviews

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    • News

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  • BACP Professional Conduct
    • Professional conduct