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Volume 22
Issue 10
December 2011

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • Personal consultancy

        • Where do the practices of counselling and psychotherapy end and coaching begin? Debra Jinks and Dr Nash Popovic believe there is a place for a one-to-one talking practice that integrates the two

      • Let’s you and I talk Alan Priest

        • As therapists, we are often advised to encourage our clients to ‘own their experience’ and talk in the first person. But, given the link between first person pronoun usage and depression, might such a focus on self actually be unhelpful for them?

      • Lessons from Wales

        • The Welsh Government is in the process of making the provision of counselling to all secondary school children a statutory responsibility for local authorities, assuring significant benefits for young people in Wales

      • Think group

        • Linda Watkinson and Samantha Tarren introduce themselves as the new groupwork co-editors for Therapy Today, and talk about their shared vision for the future of these pages

    • Cover feature
      • Working with older LGBT people David Richards

        • David Richards explores the challenges of working therapeutically with older LGBT men and women, for gay, lesbian and heterosexual practitioners

  • Regulars
    • Columns
      • In practice Julia Bueno

        • I was at a training day recently where we revisited the main theories of object relations. Freud remains familiar enough, and kindly Winnicott too, but his old supervisor Klein I admit to struggling with still

      • In the client's chair – Lonely or alone? Caitin Wishart

        • I read somewhere that there is a misunderstanding about the difference between loneliness and aloneness. Ever since the breakdown of my last relationship, I have been wondering what that misunderstanding might be

      • Student column

        • The student column will resume again shortly, with a new columnist. In the meantime, student members of BACP may find the BACP student web pages of interest

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • We have a range of interesting subjects in this issue – all contributed by BACP members. David Richards highlights the therapeutic needs and sensitivities of a largely forgotten group in his article on working with older LGBT people...

    • Letters
      • Facebook & location tagging Jennifer Heathcote Osborne

        • I thought readers would benefit from awareness of the following potential risk to client confidentiality

      • Surviving as a counsellor in the NHS Carol Gibbons

        • After many years working in the NHS as a counsellor, the psychological therapies service for my area has now been taken on by an independent IAPT provider

      • Retaining anonymity

        • The September issue of Therapy Today published an article in which I shared my personal reflections on the many issues surrounding the retirement of counsellors – why, when and how we decide it is time for us to cease working

    • Questionnaire
      • Questionnaire – Laurie Clarke

        • Laurie Clarke, CEO of BACP, has a lifelong interest in mental capital and wellbeing and is motivated by a desire to make people aware of the benefits of therapy

    • Day in the life

      • Dot com entrepreneur-turned-counsellor, John Witney has created a national network of counsellors who work via Skype

    • Reviews
      • Episodes from a life

        • Dark shadow, bright sun: a memoir, Phoebe Lambert, Authorhouse 2010, £11.92, ISBN 978-1452097145

      • Lacan theory and practice

        • Lacanian psychotherapy: theory and practical applications, Michael J Miller, Routledge 2011, £21.99, ISBN 978-0415893053

      • Therapeutic qualities of writing

        • Write yourself: creative writing and personal development, Gillie Bolton, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2011, £18.99, ISBN 978-1849051101

      • Insight into Winnicott

        • Reading Winnicott, Lesley Caldwell and Angela Joyce (eds), Routledge 2011, £21.95, ISBN 978-0415415958

      • Guide to clinical assessment

        • Understanding assessment in counselling and psychotherapy, Sofie Bager-Charleson and Biljana van Rijn, Learning Matters 2011, £16.99, ISBN 978-0857254733

      • Innovative approach

        • A community-based approach to the reduction of sexual reoffending: circles of support and accountability, Stephen Hanvey, Terry Philpot and Chris Wilson, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2011, £19.99, ISBN 978-1849051989

      • Research in practice

        • Phenomenology for therapists: researching the lived world, Linda Finlay, Wiley-Blackwell 2011, £32.99, ISBN 978-0470666456

  • BACP
    • BACP News
    • BACP Research
      • BACP Research

        • News and information from the BACP research department

    • From the Chair
      • From the Chair: Opportunities and challenges Amanda Hawkins

        • With exciting initiatives in Northern Ireland and Wales, four new Vice Presidents, our first ever Patron, and a workforce of 36,000 practitioners who are proving they are as effective as any other in the psychological field, BACP currently has many reasons to feel proud

    • TT.net

  • TT.net
    • TT.net extra
      • In conversation Colin Feltham

        • Clients with emotional difficulties they want to address, may also want to explore their aspirations and goals. Would it not make sense for them to work through all of this with one practitioner? Suggest Debra Jinks and Nash Popovic

      • Online supervision: faith and prayer Richard Bryant-Jefferies

        • Barry has been supervising Annette for two years online. Annette works at a GP surgery and describes her theoretical model as integrative

      • From the archive Debbie Charles

        • Reel feelings. For some people, watching a film can be a deeply emotional experience, which can have a profound psychological impact on them

      • Why I became a counsellor Heather Dale

        • Long periods of solitute and an ability to be self-motivated are prerequisites for becoming a counsellor, says Heather Dale

      • Behind the pictures Laura Hogan

        • Lara Harwood describes her approach to illustrating the December issue

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