Contents:

• Features
  • Features
    • The challenge of multi-agency work Sarah Catchpole

      • Multi-agency support is a challenge that pays dividends to all stakeholders when the joint investment is made with mutual respect and commitment. Sarah Catchpole explains

    • Life after birth Julia Bueno

      • In a recent survey, a staggering 52 per cent of new mums said they had faced challenges to their psychological and emotional wellbeing in the weeks and months following the birth. Is postnatal depression turning into a modern-day epidemic?

    • Children at risk: a confidential space? Peter Jenkins

      • Rushing into a one-step child protection disclosure process that triggers a whole system into action is not necessarily in the interests of the young person, and may even worsen the situation, argues Peter Jenkins

    • The net generation Lindsay Dobson

      • A generation of young people has grown up with the new form of empowerment that technology offers. As technology develops, so does the potential for its use in therapy, argues Lindsay Dobson

  • Cover feature
    • The delusion of positive thinking Barbara Ehrenreich

      • Barbara Ehrenreich exposes the psychological effects of a world which tells us to put on a happy face and the blindness of nations that refuse to imagine the worst

• Regulars
  • Columns
    • In practice - S - under supervision Kevin Chandler

      • Throughout the three decades I’ve plied my trade in the counsellor’s chair, I’ve been required to submit to regular one-to-one supervision. I am now on my eighth supervisor, all bar one of them, women.

    • In the client's chair - Spiritual awakening Emma Munro

      • I am beginning to think that perhaps my ‘problems’ may be in large part spiritual rather than something that therapy alone can work out.

    • In training - Feel the fear... Martin Halifax

      • With some anxiety about provoking assumptions of class and culture, I admit this month to the impact of a skiing holiday I have just enjoyed with family and friends in the French Alps

    • The art of coaching - Building trust Linda Aspey

      • ‘How do I get clients when I hate selling?’ This is a $64,000 question, asked by coaches everywhere. It’s normally followed by: ‘I could never be a pushy salesman – I just don’t have the gift of the gab.’

  • News
    • Recession causes surge in mental health problems

      • The number of people suffering stress, anxiety and depression because of redundancies, job insecurity and pay cuts resulting from the recession is soaring, according to a study published by academics from Roehampton University and the children’s charity Elizabeth Finn Care.

    • Mental health services a soft target for cuts

      • Half a million people with serious mental illness could lose access to counselling and other services as the NHS struggles to make unprecedented efficiency savings, campaigners warn.

    • Guide to help improve NHS

      • The Depression Alliance has launched a new guide, Daring to Implement, detailing eight examples of excellence in services for depression and identifying challenges and recommendations for NHS commissioners and healthcare professionals

    • Athletes given access to mental health experts

      • Britain’s elite athletes will have a raft of mental health experts behind them in the build-up to the 2012 Olympics, after UK Athletics struck a pioneering deal with the Priory hospital group

    • Sight of blood important in self-harm

      • The sight of their own blood plays a key role in the comfort that some non-suicidal people find in cutting themselves, according to a new study.

    • Chocolate lovers are more depressive

      • People who regularly eat chocolate are more depressive, experts have found. Research published in the Archives of Internal Medicine shows those who eat at least a bar every week are more glum than those who only eat chocolate now and again.

    • Lack of commitment to the young

      • Personal Social Health and Economic Education (PSHE) will not be made compulsory in schools, as parts of the Children, Schools and Family Bill were abandoned last month

    • Children who lose a parent to suicide more likely to die the same way

      • Losing a parent to suicide makes children more likely to die by suicide themselves and increases their risk of developing a range of major psychiatric disorders

    • Contesting stories of child abuse

      • Women who read self-help literature aimed at adult victims of childhood sexual abuse can come to believe they were abused even if they have no memories of this, new research says.

    • One in five children threatened

      • One in five children have been threatened or bullied through the internet, according to one of the UK’s biggest surveys of young people’s online behaviour.

  • Editorial
    • Editorial Sarah Browne

      • I must confess to having been quite taken with the whole idea of positive thinking over the last few years.

  • Letters
    • Human Givens research Bill Andrews

      • Laszlo Czaban (Therapy Today Letters, April 2010) suggests a description for evaluation that has all the characteristics of a randomised clinical trial (RCT).

    • Dealing with MUS through relationship Barbara Dale

      • Thank you for an inspiring and excellent April edition of Therapy Today focusing on mindbody healthcare.

    • The pull to academic assessment Penny Henderson

      • Martin Halifax's column 'The wrong hoops' about assessment of written work in cousellors training in April's Therapy Today struct a chord that resonates for me about supervisor training as well

    • Helpful insights on pornography Jane Taylor

      • I found Wendy Maltz’s comprehensive article ‘The porn trap’ (Therapy Today, February 2010) informative and thought provoking

  • Questionnaire
    • Tim Bond

      • Internationally renowned for his contributions to counselling and research ethics, Tim Bond wonders if our theories and techniques are less central to clients’ change than we like to think

  • Day in the life

    • Salma Khalid works to increase access to mental health services for black and ethnic minority children and families

  • Reviews
    • Deep respect for subjective processes

      • Process work in person-centred therapy (2nd edition), Richard Worsley, Palgrave Macmillan 2009, £21.99, ISBN 978-0230213159

    • Learning by doing

      • Using expressive arts to work with mind, body and emotions: theory and practice, Mark Pearson and Helen Wilson, Jessica Kingsley 2009, £19.99, ISBN 978-1849050319

    • The power of parenting

      • An unsolicited gift: why we do what we do, Dennis Friedman, Arcadia Books 2010, £11.99, ISBN 978-1906413606

    • Pearls of wisdom

      • Clinical pearls of wisdom: 21 leading therapists offer their key insights, Michael Kerman (ed), WW Norton & Co, £18.99
        ISBN 978-0393705874

    • Secrets and lies

      • Common dilemmas in couple therapy, Judith P Leavitt, Routledge Mental Health 2009, £19.50, ISBN 978-0415800013

    • Existential supervision

      • Existential perspectives on supervision: widening the horizon of psychotherapy and counselling, Emmy van Deurzen and Sarah Young (eds), Palgrave Macmillan 2009, £21.99, ISBN 978-0230203303

    • Survivors of abuse

      • Introduction to counselling survivors of interpersonal trauma, Christiane Sanderson, Jessica Kingsley 2009, £22.20, ISBN 978-1843109624

         

    • Sex and sexuality

      • Sex, sexuality and therapeutic practice: a manual for therapists and trainers, Catherine Butler, Amanda O’Donovan and Elizabeth Shaw (eds), Routledge Mental Health 2009, £22.99, ISBN 978-0415448093

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    • Applying for accreditation: continuing professional development

      • Fourth in our series of guidance articles

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