Contents:

• Features
  • Features
    • NICE guidance Bill Andrews

      • As joint director of The National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health, Steve Pilling is responsible for identifying effective psychological interventions and making recommendations to NICE for their use

    • ADHD: the war for our children Eleanor Patrick

      • A leading proponent of non-drug treatment for children displaying symptoms of ADHD, clinical child psychologist Angela Southall is concerned about the politics and vested interests involved in the rush to legitimise ADHD as a clinical construct.

    • Emotionally homeless Janet Toye

      • Abandoned by their families and rejected by society, homeless people often have little idea of what a safe home is like or the skills necessary to create one. Cognitive analytic therapy can help improve the likelihood of them settling in a permanent home

    • It’s safe here Hilary Abrahams

      • In addition to its physical impact, domestic violence also has a devastating effect on psychological wellbeing. Women escaping from abusive relationships talk about the importance of emotional support in women’s refuges

    • Listening with the ears, eyes and heart Clare Pointon

      • Tuning in to the conversations between our many and sometimes conflicting inner voices as we sit with clients is crucial to the work of therapy, according to Belgian family therapist and trainer Peter Rober

    • Supervision – the grown-up relationship? Duncan E Stafford

      • Troubled by the power imbalance in the one-to-one supervisory relationship, a recently qualified supervisor believes peer support in supervision could provide a more reflective space for autonomous decision-making

    • Responding to student needs Chelsea Shelley

      • We are implementing a range of new products and services to meet the specific needs of student members

  • Cover feature
    • The self set free John Daniel

      • In online virtual worlds like Second Life, people are forming new kinds of relationships and living new kinds of lives outside bodies in entirely re-imagined selves. With one billion people estimated to have a presence in virtual worlds by 2018, isn’t it time the therapy profession started to give the phenomenon some serious attention?

• Regulars
  • News
    • Facebook to blame for friendship

      • The social networking site Facebook is to blame for ‘friendship addiction’ and fuelling insecurity in users, according to psychologists

    • Crisis could spark rise in mentally ill

      • Britain is facing a big rise in mental illness during the credit crunch

    • Experts call for campaign to boost nation’s mental health

      • A two-year report into the country’s mental wellbeing by government think-tank Foresight, says a campaign to boost the mental health of the nation is needed to combat rising rates of depression, anxiety and drug abuse

    • New research links digital inclusion and social impact

      • Learning about computers and the Internet can help improve the lives of disadvantaged groups

    • Taking herb ‘helps depression’

      • New research suggests the herbal medicine St John’s Wort could be a suitable alternative for treating depression

    • Dawning of the age of paranoia

      • An ‘age of paranoia’ is dawning

    • Stress can trigger emotional disorders in children

      • Children are more likely to develop emotional and behavioural disorders if they experience stressful events

    • Nervous breakdown discharges up to 30 per cent among armed forces

      • The number of British military personnel discharged from the armed forces following a ‘nervous breakdown’ has risen by 30 per cent since the start of the Afghan war.

    • Schools to be judged on how they boost wellbeing

      • Consultation on a proposed set of indicators to recognise and reward schools for their efforts towards pupils’ wellbeing

    • Depression can double risk of premature baby

      • Pregnant women who are depressed are twice as likely to have a premature baby

  • Editorial
    • Editorial Sarah Browne

      • I can remember feeling quietly concerned a few years ago looking on as my children tried out different careers, designed their own homes complete with swimming pools and gave birth to perfect offspring

  • Letters
    • Don’t forget the poor Mora Maclean

      • As a former debt ‘counsellor’, I feel the need to respond to Clare Pointon’s article ‘Debt despair’ (therapy today, October 2008)

    • Person-centred therapy: marrying ideals to reality Ian Plágaro-Neill

      • In response to Gibbard and Baker’s article regarding person-centred therapy in primary care

    • Inverted pedantry? Anthony Hall-Shaw

      • At the risk of becoming an inverted pedant, I felt I had to write to address the issue raised by Caroline Vermes in the letters pages of October’s therapy today.

    • Abortion: the need for support Fiona Gallacher

      • Having read the article on abortion counselling published in the September 2008 issue of therapy today, I feel compelled to write this letter in response

    • Is anyone listening? Roger Sealy

      • In August 2007 my local NHS advertised for 'primary care mental health workers

    • Undermining the work of sexual minority trainers David Mair

      • I felt a mixture of emotions when I read Matt Valentine's letter in the October issue of therapy today, chief amongst which were sadness and anger

    • A volunteer no longer! Alice (Polly) Renwick

      • How many counsellors and psychotherapists out there are familiar with my process, into and out of the voluntary sector?

  • Reviews
    • Gay affirmative therapy for the straight clinician: the essential guide

      • Gay affirmative therapy for the straight clinician: the essential guide Joe Kort WW Norton & Company 2008 ISBN 978-0393704976 £19.99. Reviewed by Margaret Evans

    • Person-centred work with children and young people: UK practitioner perspectives

      • Person-centred work with children and young people: UK practitioner perspectives Suzanne Keys and Tracey Walshaw (eds) PCCS 2008 ISBN 978-1906254018 £19. Reviewed by Sara Bartlett Brown

    • Creative group supervision

      • Creative group supervision Brigid Proctor and Francesca Inskipp University of Wales, Newport 2008 DVD £60. Reviewed by Angela Cooper

    • Facilitating young people’s development: international perspectives on person-centred theory and practice

      • Facilitating young people’s development: international perspectives on person-centred theory and practice Michael Behr and Jeffrey HD Cornelius-White (eds) PCCS Books 2008 ISBN 978-1906254001 £19. Reviewed by Cath Fuller

    • Their finest hour: master therapists share their greatest success stories

      • Their finest hour: master therapists share their greatest success stories Jeffrey Kottler and Jon Carlson Crown House Publishing 2008 ISBN 978-1845900885 £16.99. Reviewed by Sue Rowe

    • The therapeutic relationship: perspectives and themes

      • The therapeutic relationship: perspectives and themes Sheila Haugh and Stephen Paul (eds) PCCS Books 2008 ISBN 978-1906254049 £20. Reviewed by Eileen Aird

    • Psychoanalytic energy psychotherapy

      • Psychoanalytic energy psychotherapy Phil Mollon ISBN 978-1855755666 Karnac 2008 £29.99. Reviewed by Colin Feltham

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• BACP
  • BACP News
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  • BACP Professional Conduct
    • Findings, decision and sanction
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  • BACP Professional Standards
    • BACP Professional Standards

      • News from the BACP Professional Standards department

  • BACP Research
    • Supervision Practice Research Network launched

      • Many practitioners value supervision highly and BACP has made it one of the cornerstones of both ethical practice and the accreditation of training courses and individuals

    • BACP awarded Practitioner-led Research Grant

      • BACP has recently been awarded a Practitioner-led Research Grant from the Children’s Workforce Development Council

    • Training the trainers: new workshop dates for 2009

      • The ESRC (Economic and Social Research Council) Researcher Development Initiative to promote the training of counselling and psychotherapy trainers in research methods has successfully delivered both national day workshops and a week-long summer school

    • New BACP book commission

      • Professor John McLeod of the University of Abertay, Dundee has recently been commissioned by BACP to write a new publication

    • Finding funding

      • Grants of up to £15,000 are available to facilitate multi-institutional seminar groups

    • New publication

      • Counselling in primary care: a systematic review of the evidence By Andrew Hill, Alison Brettle, Peter Jenkins and Claire Hulme ISBN 978-1905114283