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Volume 21
Issue 2
March 2010

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • BPD: mental illness or misogyny? Dr Gillian Proctor

        • Given that at least 75 per cent of those diagnosed with borderline personality disorder are female, Gillian Proctor argues that this is the latest example of a historical tendency to explain away as ‘madness’ the strategies some women use to survive oppression and abuse

      • Under the iceberg Kathy Johnston

        • A white female supervisor explores difference with white female supervisees

      • Working with brain damaged clients

        • Working with clients whose brains have been damaged by illness or physical trauma raises many questions and practical problems. Yet the service that therapists offer to such clients is of huge value

    • Cover feature
      • Anger and forgiveness Jayne Allen

        • The Hoffman Process is an eight-day residential course of personal discovery and development. It is hard work, extreme and all consuming. But, as Jayne Allen discovers, it might also change your life

  • Regulars
    • Columns
      • In practice - The limits of care Kevin Chandler

        • The doorbell cut like a starter pistol through our Friday morning lie-in. My wife looked up from her novel and I sneaked a glance across at her from beyond the sports pages, our silent stares issuing the identical message: ‘Well, are you going or do I have to?’

      • In the client's chair - Getting on with the job Emma Munro

        • There’s a real feeling in my sessions of cognitive analytic therapy of let’s just get on with the job. I’m not absolutely sure what the usual timescale is from beginning to end of a ‘treatment’, but I’m aware that it is expected to be short and not open ended. I welcome this dynamism

      • In training - More cakes and ale Martin Halifax

        • The incidental review is used in many schools of counselling and it feels as if one is due now. We are four-and-a-half terms through our six-term postgraduate course and have just completed our second residential – a weekend of enquiry and reflection on the self.

      • The art of coaching - Thinking partners Linda Aspey

        • I've always thought that I did a pretty good job of paying attention to my clients. But that was before I came across an approach from Nancy Kline of Time to Think, called the Thinking Environment™

    • News
      • Excessive internet use linked to depression

        • British psychologists have found evidence of a link between excessive internet use and depression. Leeds University researchers writing in the Psychopathology journal, said a small proportion of internet users were classed as internet addicts and that people in this group were more likely to be depressed than non-addicted users.

      • Patients will suffer under new guidelines

        • BACP, Person Centred Therapy Scotland, the Highland Users Group and the Scottish Transactional Analysis Association are challenging new guidelines from the Scottish Intercollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) which exclude counselling as a treatment for depression.

      • New helpline training

        • Mental Health Helplines Partnership (mhhp) has launched a qualification designed specifically by, but not exclusively for, workers in the mental health helpline sector.

      • Inadequate provision for looked-after young

        • Young people in care are not receiving consistent access to child and adolescent mental health services, with some receiving no help at home, according to an Ofsted report.

      • Armed forces healthcare

        • Health Minister Mike O’Brien MP and Veterans Minister Kevan Jones MP have announced new arrangements to provide armed forces veterans and those preparing to make the transition from service to civilian life with the very highest standards of healthcare.

      • Association for sex addiction

        • A new professional association for the treatment of sexual addiction and compulsivity has been launched to provide information to the public, and training and professional standards for therapists working in the field.

      • Helpline’s webcam for the deaf

        • The Helplines Association (THA) has honoured with an award an innovative webcam service that allows deaf people in Scotland to communicate face-to-face with trained mental health advisers.

      • Self-help books can do more harm than good

        • Self-help books based on the traditional principles of CBT can do more harm than good, according to a new study. The risks were highest for readers described as ‘high ruminators’ – those who spend time mulling over the likely causes and consequences of their negative moods.

      • New website to dispel myths of psychosis

        • A new evidence-based website has been launched to help relatives and friends of people with psychosis – including schizophrenia and bipolar disorder – navigate the many myths and misinformation about psychosis.

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • I have always been curious about the Hoffman Process and, having learnt more about it, I think it’s an interesting subject for therapists: an intensive eight-day residential course where you are cut off from the outside world, and together with a group of 23 others are lead through 100 hours of personal exploration using techniques drawn from all the major therapeutic approaches.

    • Letters
      • Gender politics of porn industry Allegra Damji

        • I found the article on the ubiquity of modern porn and a therapist’s view of its effect on her clients interesting but oddly incomplete. Porn is not a virtual world. To talk about the harm it does without mentioning the real men, women and children involved in its production, to me mirrors the cut off consumption of images without reference to how they are produced, which porn users exemplify.

      • Porn: trap or way out?

        • I’d like to add some thoughts to Wendy Maltz’s thoughtful piece on pornography. I was particularly pleased to see her recommend to her clients that they attend one of the 12-step fellowships. Too often there seems to be a split between therapy which espouses 12-step recovery as the way, the light and the truth, and that which seems not even to know that it exists, or dismisses it as somehow not good enough.

      • Anti-male bias David Sagar

        • The article entitled ‘The porn trap’ by Wendy Maltz (February 2010) was a particularly blatant example of the anti-male bias of this journal.

      • Time to address the damage Duncan E Stafford

        • I read with great interest Wendy Maltz’s article ‘The porn trap’ in the February 2010 issue of Therapy Today. I am particularly heartened by the way she calls for ‘shame-free directness’, that she is not in favour of censorship (censorship is only likely to lead to pornography moving further underground) and perhaps, most importantly, that mental health professionals can be ‘most helpful when we resist our tendencies to automatically condemn or advocate porn’.

      • Changes to Ethical Framework Peter Bardsley

        • When my last edition of Therapy Today arrived on 14 February, I was surprised to discover that for the previous fortnight I had been expected to follow a revised Ethical Framework (‘Updating the BACP Ethical Framework’, February 2010). I consider that this development is bizarre and undermines the conditions which are necessary for ethical practice.

      • Extraordinary claims Ian Stevenson

        • I would like to raise a question about an aspect of the Human Givens approach, namely their claims about the treatment of trauma. Last year I chaired the plenary of a conference on trauma, attended by 120 people, mainly counsellors and psychotherapists, from all over the South West...

      • Factual errors Kathy Hardy

        • We were very pleased to see Julia Bueno’s article on the Human Givens approach to mental health and wellbeing in the December issue of Therapy Today. It was an excellent piece, except for a few unfortunate factual errors of which I felt it was important to inform you.

      • Ancient pedigree of emotional needs Ivan Tyrrell

        • In an age in which, despite over 100 years of Western psychiatry, psychotherapy and counselling, mental illness rates continue to rise and health services are demoralised and crumbling under the impossible expectations people have of them, Michael Soth’s misrepresentation of the Human Givens (HG) approach to psychotherapy requires refutation.

      • On being unaccredited Doug Turner

        • Now that I have been ‘outed’ as not renewing my accreditation, I would like to make two points which might be of interest to members. Firstly to clients, trainees and supervisees, I am not deceased or retiring from practice. Secondly, something of the process of my ‘de-accreditation’ may give pause for thought about the system.

      • Childhood article Jo Bisseker Barr

        • I would like to thank Clare Pointon for her article ‘Toxic childhood’ (February 2010). I read it, re-read it, then photocopied it and gave it to the headteacher of my children’s school

      • Redressing the balance Shona Adams

        • I am a clinical psychologist, writing in response to Michael Soth’s letter about the Human Givens approach. It is extraordinary that he would write a critique of Human Givens without quoting or referencing even one Human Givens article.

    • Questionnaire
      • David Pink

        • As chief executive of the UK Council for Psychotherapy, David Pink is working hard to get the different parts of the profession to work together

    • Day in the life

      • A psychotherapist and coach, Maggie Morrow has been tasked by the NHS to develop the quality of primary care counselling across Westminster

    • Reviews
      • Listening to the bereaved

        • Talking with bereaved people: an approach for structured and sensitive communication, Dodie Graves, Jessica Kingsley 2009, £17.99, ISBN 978-1843109884

      • CBT for children with PTSD

        • Post traumatic stress disorder: cognitive therapy with children and young people, Patrick Smith, Sean Perrin, William Yule and David M Clark, Routledge 2009, £19.99, ISBN 978-0415391641

      • Key points about TA

        • Transactional analysis: 100 key points and techniques, Mark Widdowson, Routledge 2009, £12.99, ISBN 978-0415473873

      • Techniques for emotional freedom

        • EFT and beyond: cutting edge techniques for personal transformation, Pamela Bruner and John Bullough (eds), Energy Publications 2009, £27.50, ISBN 978-0956291103

      • Young adult’s guide to mental health

        • The young mind: an essential guide to mental health for young adults, parents and teachers, Sue Bailey and Mike Shooter (eds), Bantam Press 2009, £14.99, ISBN 978-0593061381

      • Core skills explained

        • Skills in psychodynamic counselling & psychotherapy, Susan Howard, Sage 2009, £19.99, ISBN 978-1412946544

  • BACP
    • BACP News

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