Contents:

• Features
  • A very peculiar marriage

    • Therapists make uneasy bedfellows with alcohol agencies – but such work is alive and well despite perennial and taxing issues

  • Addiction: is counselling sufficient?

    • Most therapists confronted with drug and alcohol users – even those who follow a person-centred philosophy – may feel the need to send their client to a more directive service. Yet although the work can be challenging, these clients can benefit from our help

  • Treating drug users: a collaborative method

    • Joint working in general practice may be the ideal means of optimising outcomes for those who use drugs. GP Chris Ford and practice counsellors James Oliver and Brian Whitehead describe how it works in their inner-city general practice

  • Legless and dangerous

    • Drug misuse has been the overwhelming focus of services designed to help those with substance addiction, yet alcohol abuse is more pervasive and damaging. Kate Hayes outlines the range of services available, and the changing role of counsellors within them

  • Understanding sexual addiction

    • The nature and prevalence of sexual addiction has changed due to the influence of the Internet and widespread media interest – but counselling still needs to focus on controlling the behaviour and addressing the narcissistic damage

  • On the starting blocks

    • Margaret Wilkinson, author of a new book on the mind-brain relationship, talks to Clare Pointon about the place of
      neuroscientific understanding in training courses and consulting rooms, and the importance of integrating this knowledge now

  • Healing the inner child online

    • Some models of counselling do not readily transfer to the online environment. Here, Elizabeth Zelvin outlines her four tasks for clients from dysfunctional families and relates the model to the specific needs of the online client

  • The SF journey

    • Solution-focused supervision is like being a taxi driver

  • The land of tears

    • Anne Booth responds to last month’s article ‘What are you crying for?’ with an attempt to explore and understand the group’s tears – both others’ and her own

  • Construction work

    • The winner of the 2005 BACP award for The Advancement of Counselling Practice – Diane Goodkind – hopes the
      spotlight on her project will help raise more funds for counselling work with homeless people

  • An embarrassment of courses

    • The first of a series of mini reports from the Department of Health counselling and psychotherapy project focuses on the plethora of training courses in the UK – 570 in all

  • Cover feature

    • We use all kinds of behaviour to gain a sense of satisfaction. We want to feel a particular way or have a set of inner experiences as a result of our actions. Each day we make choices, and our choices are driven by the experience of what brings us this sense of satisfaction.

• Regulars
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  • Editorial

    • Have we become a nation of addicts? Or is this a flippant thing to say in a counselling and psychotherapy journal?

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  • Reviews
    • Review

      • Feedback and suggestions for titles for review welcome. Email Caroline Jones, Reviews Editor, at reviews@bacp.
        co.uk

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• BACP
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