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Volume 19
Issue 8
October 2008

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • Person-centred therapy in primary care

        • By routinely measuring outcomes over a number of years, a primary care mental health team in Central Lancashire has found that person-centred therapy can provide an effective alternative to CBT in a stepped care model of service delivery

      • On leaping Malcolm Davy-Barnes

        • Can approaching our client work through the lens of mythology have relevance in today’s climate of accountability?

      • Text speak

        • As counsellors and psychotherapists we are in the business of communication. But how well are we coping with the impact of newer forms of communication in our interactions with clients?

      • Facial discrimination Suzanne Millstone

        • Over one million people in the UK have a disfigurement to the face, hands or body from many different causes. Founded in 1992, Changing Faces provides personal support for people living with disfigurements and their families

      • A relational framework for supervision Karl Gregory

        • A framework providing four components to help focus the counselling relationship, can also prove useful in the context of counselling supervision

      • Benchmarks for training Seb Randall

        • BACP has commissioned a core curriculum to achieve shared standards for training in counselling and psychotherapy while allowing courses to retain their own identity and individuality

      • An open process Clare Pointon

        • Professor Diane Waller is looking forward to the challenge of chairing the group that will advise the Health Professions Council on regulation

      • Towards regulation

        • The Health Professions Council has various issues to consider in the lead up to statutory regulation in 2010. The following is a summary of the key recommendations it will have to make

      • Driving passion Clare Pointon

        • Committed to representing the interests of members and the public in the lead up to regulation, Dr Lynne Gabriel feels passionately about her new role as BACP’s incoming Chair

    • Cover feature
      • Debt despair Clare Pointon

        • As the effect of the credit crunch starts to hit and the economy sinks further into recession, more and more people will experience depression, anxiety and other stress-related problems as they fall into debt. Is enough being done to address the high cost of debt on mental health?

  • Regulars
    • News
      • One in six mothers has a favourite child

        • A survey carried out by parenting website Netmums has found that one in six mothers love one of their children more than the others, whilst a third said they loved all their children equally and half said they loved their children equally but in different ways.

      • Schizophrenia patients denied talking therapies

        • Thousands of people with mental health problems are being denied the best and most effective treatments years after they were approved by the National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE), according to new research by mental health charity Rethink.

      • Sleepless in Scotland

        • Lack of access to psychological therapies on the NHS in Scotland means that doctors often have no choice but to prescribe sleeping pills for patients suffering from insomnia.

      • Study reveals teen self-harm rates

        • The Suicidal Behaviour Research Group at Stirling University has found that teenagers who reported having concerns about their sexual orientation, a history of sexual abuse or those who knew a family member who had self-harmed, were five times more likely to self-harm.

      • Sunshine equals happiness

        • Scientists from the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health at the University of Toronto have identified changes in the brain that could explain the origins of seasonal affective disorder (SAD).

      • Depression to be treated over the phone

        • Five health boards in Scotland will take part in a pilot project to provide cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) over the phone to reduce the need for antidepressant medication

      • Mental health care ‘still flawed’

        • A survey of service users carried out by the Healthcare Commission has found that 24 per cent said they were not involved in deciding what was in their care plan

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • As the turmoil in the financial markets continues and the country sinks further into recession, the impact of debt on people’s emotional health is increasingly concerning

    • Letters
      • Learning from experience John Foskett

        • I enjoyed the article ‘Learning from experience’ by Turner et al, in September’s CPR. perhaps because the phrase is so evocative of learning both for clients and counsellors.

      • Preaching to the converted Werner Kierski

        • I write in response to Mick Cooper's article ‘The facts are friendly’ (Therapy Today, September 2008)

      • Fact or fiction? Andy Flint

        • I guess I should thank Mick Cooper (‘The facts are friendly’, Therapy Today, September 2008) for inspiring me to write to Therapy Today for the first time. I have no particular issue with some of what he writes but his contribution to the ‘debate’ over relative efficacy/equivalence I feel needs challenging.

      • Enlightened training Chris Brown

        • I am writing to express my thoughts and feelings in relation to the ESRC summer school, ‘Training the trainers’, which was held at Leicester University in July

      • Where there’s a will, there’s a way Trish Staples

        • I was impressed with Sally Despenser’s article ‘Have you made a clinical will?’ (Therapy Today, September 2008). The subject of death is one that permeates

      • Late payment advice Name withheld

        • I'm writing to you about a problem I've had for many years regarding late payment for counselling work undertaken on behalf of EAPs.

      • Straight talk from a gay man Matt Valentine

        • Having read the article ‘Working with difference’ (Therapy Today, September 2008), I am moved to reach out to the heterosexual counselling community.

      • Omitting the needs of trans clients Michelle Bridgman

        • I am writing in response to the feature ‘Working with difference’ (Therapy Today, September 2008). The piece begins by challenging heterosexual models of thinking which ‘can inadvertently lead therapists to overlook or marginalise issues specific to lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans clients’

      • Clarifying parental control Mary Newman

        • I would like to clarify an issue relating to parental control in my article ‘Non-violent resistance’ (Therapy Today, September 2008)

      • Don’t use illness as a label Caroline Vermes

        • I am writing to comment on the use in Therapy Today of the words ‘anorexics’ and ‘anorectics’ as nouns. They show up in two brief articles published in the July issue

      • Qualified but expected to work unpaid Sharon Shinwell

        • In the June issue of Therapy Today there was a full-page advertisement for the NHS, stating: ‘Training and jobs available from June 2008

    • Noticeboard
      • Supervision

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      • Placements

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      • Research

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      • Networking

        • Pin your notice (max 30 words) on our free Noticeboard and website to reach more than 29,000 readers. Email your entry with your membership number to niki.lawrence@bacp.co.uk. All notices published subject to space

  • BACP
    • BACP News
    • BACP Research
      • BACP Research

        • News and information from the BACP Research Department

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