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Volume 23
Issue 4
May 2012

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • Counselling in the community Pippa Reynolds

        • Pippa Reynolds describes how she carries her counselling skills out into the community in her day-to-day work as an auxiliaire de vie sociale in rural France

      • Measuring the immeasurable

        • Elizabeth Freire, Robert Elliott and Graham Westwell describe their bold attempt to create a competence measure for person-centred and experiential therapies

      • Group therapy for addiction Rachel Young

        • Twelve-step group therapy aims to create a safe space where people with addictions can learn to reconnect with others and create the foundations for recovery, as Rachel Young reports

    • Cover feature
      • Holding and being held Madeleine Böcker

        • Loneliness is often at the root of depression, argues Madeleine Böcker. Here she outlines a groupwork approach that can unlock the barriers to emotional intimacy

    • News feature
      • Raising our game Catherine Jackson

        • BACP will shortly roll out a national voluntary registration scheme that will bring better safeguards for clients and higher standards for counselling

  • Regulars
    • Columns
      • In the client's chair – Unhappy returns Caitin Wishart

        • Breaks are a funny thing in therapy. When my therapist takes time off for a holiday, initially it feels fine, a relief even. I wave him merrily on his way, barely giving him a thought until the date of our reunion session begins to loom large in my diary

    • News
      • Therapy cuts medical costs

        • Offering patients psychological therapies in tandem with medical treatment for their long-term physical illnesses could save the NHS billions, a report from the NHS Confederation’s Mental Health Network says

      • Men’s mental health needs

        • Men’s mental ill health is under reported, under diagnosed and under treated, a report commissioned by the European Commission says

      • Better beside the seaside

        • Being beside the seaside is better for your mental health than a walk in the countryside or an urban park

      • NSPCC reveals annual toll of child sex offences

        • Some 60 children are sexually abused each day in England and Wales, yet fewer than one in 10 offences reported to the police result in a conviction, figures obtained by the NSPCC reveal

      • Think-tank report condemns IAPT ‘monoculture’

        • A controversial report has slated the CBT ‘monoculture’ that it says dominates access to counselling and psychological therapies in the NHS and means patients are denied a real choice of treatments that could help

      • Dogs rise to dementia challenge

        • The Design Council has launched five new ‘concepts’ to help people with dementia and their carers, as part of the Department of Health’s Living Well with Dementia challenge

      • Drop-in therapy helps homeless

        • Counselling and psychotherapy services can help homeless people, but may need to be offered on a drop-in basis and in non-clinical settings to maximise uptake, the homeless charity St Mungo’s says

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • There has been much talk about loneliness in recent months: the ‘curse of the modern age’ and the ‘loneliness epidemic’

    • Letters
      • Truth and untruths William Johnston

        • I find it refreshing to see opposition to the medicalisation of psychiatry, and still more refreshing to see that opposition coming from within the ranks of our profession

      • Diagnosis by dialogue Philip Gatter

        • In the NHS mental health trust for which I work, all professionals delivering psychotherapy in an outpatient setting now have to formulate ICD-10

      • In praise of CfD Jenny Oyston

        • Had I read Leslie Chapman’s letter without any understanding of the Counselling for Depression competencies, I would doubtless have shared his misgivings

      • Down to earth Sarah Urwin

        • As a practitioner in the field of equine-facilitated therapy for over a decade, I was excited to see an article on the subject

      • Common (horse) sense Elizabeth Alborough

        • As a psychodynamic counsellor and horse owner, I shuddered at the article regarding EAP in the March 2012 issue

      • Poked and prodded Janet Toye

        • In the recent article on the subject of the Work Programme, I recognised the experience of my clients, all of whom have been affected by homelessness

      • Feckless scroungers Peter Buckingham

        • Having just read Clare Slaney’s and Diane Collingwood’s letters, I agree with the broad sentiments of both

      • Becoming whole Helen Parker

        • I read with interest Michelle Bridgman’s interview ‘Changing bodies and minds’

      • Safety in objects Cathy Palmer

        • I have read with interest the growing number of articles on other therapists’ experiences of working with clients on the autistic spectrum

      • Learning about the institution of which we are a part John Foskett

        • Learning by or from experience is an inevitable part of life. Often we don’t learn what we hope to; indeed, many of the lessons of life are more than we can manage, so we resist the learning that others, who know us, can see all too clearly

    • Questionnaire
      • Questionnaire – Terry Lynch

        • Psychotherapist and author Terry Lynch believes all human experiences should be seen as purposeful and as a starting point towards healing

    • Day in the life

      • Jungian psychotherapist Michael Boyle wants to reconnect men with each other to find their creative manhood

    • Reviews
      • On the thorns of dilemmas

        • Client issues in counselling and psychotherapy, Janet Tolan and Paul Wilkins (eds), Sage 2012, £19.99, ISBN 978-1848600263

      • Hope and the superhero

        • What doesn’t kill us: the new psychology of posttraumatic growth, Stephen Joseph, Piatkus 2011, £13.99, ISBN 978-0349400013

      • Ourselves and other selves

        • Self awareness and personal development, Chris Rose (ed), Palgrave Macmillan 2012, £17.99, ISBN 978-0230240186

      • Timely guide to coping at work

        • Overcoming your workplace stress: a CBT-based self-help guide, Martin R Bamber, Routledge 2011, £14.99, ISBN 978-041567178

      • Too easy reading

        • Psychodynamic theory for therapeutic practice (2nd edition), Juliet Higdon, Palgrave Macmillan 2012, £19.99, ISBN 978-0230242470

      • Listening to the voices

        • Agnes’s jacket: a psychologist’s search for the meanings of madness, Gail A Hornstein, PCCS Books 2012, £12.99, ISBN 978-1906245452

      • Rose-tinted writing

        • The optimism bias, Tali Sharot, Robinson 2012, £8.99, ISBN 978-1780332635

      • Beating the Black Dog

        • Tackling depression at work, Kerrie Eyers and Gordon Parker, Routledge 2011, £9.99, ISBN 976-04150601726

    • Dilemmas
      • Dilemmas: Breaking up is hard to do

        • Cameron gets on well with his therapist. They have developed a quasi-supervisory relationship during his counselling training. Now he needs to find a supervisor, and thinks she might be ideal

    • Talking point Jon Brown

      • There are over four million pornographic websites on the internet. Free sites such as YouPorn and PornHub get millions of visitors every hour

  • BACP
    • BACP News
    • BACP Professional Standards
    • BACP Research
    • BACP Policy

    • TT.net

  • TT.net
    • TT.net extra
      • Behind the pictures Laura Hogan

        • Adam Hancher describes what inspired his illustrations for the May issue

      • From the archive

        • Addiction: is counselling sufficient? Most therapists confronted with drug and alcohol users – even those who follow a person-centred philosophy – may feel the need to send their client to a more directive service. Yet although the work can be challenging, these clients can benefit from our help

      • In conversation Colin Feltham

        • Colin Feltham interviews May Therapy Today contributor Madeleine Böcker about loneliness and why therapists should take it more seriously

      • Online supervision: too much information? Richard Bryant-Jefferies

        • The online supervision session has just begun and Mary is waiting for Sophia, her supervisee, to type what she wants to discuss. Mary has been offering supervision online to Sophia for a couple of years. The wait for Sophia to start seems longer than usual and Mary wonders if there’s a connection problem. Finally, words begin to appear on her screen.

      • In the news

        • The Department of Health has expanded public access to information about how well their local GP practice performs

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