Contents:

• Features
  • Features
    • Working with adults with ADHD Sabina Dosani

      • Working with adults with ADHD presents particular challenges for therapists and demands a high degree of flexibility, writes Sabina Dosani

    • Art therapy with trafficked women Lydia Atira Tan

      • Women and girls who are victims of sex trafficking have experienced unspeakable trauma. Lydia Atira Tan describes an art therapy programme that aims to help them articulate their experiences

    • Supervisor self-awareness

      • Self-awareness is vital to a supportive and challenging relationship between supervisor and trainee counsellor, write Máire O’Donnell and Kate Vallance

  • Cover feature
    • Who wants to be a counsellor? Nicola Banning

      • Nicola Banning asked fellow counsellors and trainees what motivated their decision to train, and how hopeful they are of finding paid work today

  • News feature
    • Making time to talk Catherine Jackson

      • No matter how good their medical care, people with long-term physical illnesses also need time and space to talk

• Regulars
  • Columns
    • In the client's chair – What am I getting out of this? Caitin Wishart

      • I met a therapy-sceptic the other day. They wanted to know what benefits therapy has given me, whether it has changed me, how it has translated into my everyday life

    • In training – Searching for myself Marc Brammer

      • I’m working with a very troubled young woman at the moment at the college where I’m on placement. She has a very uneven idea of who she is and where she fits into society

    • In practice – Psychiatry meets counselling Rachel Freeth

      • It might seem to some readers rather unusual for a counselling and psychotherapy journal to include a column written by a psychiatrist. I should like, then, to introduce myself and explain why I have accepted the invitation to write this column

  • News
    • MPs say schools should help fight body fascism

      • Lessons on body image should be compulsory in primary and secondary schools to help children resist the ‘unattainable body ideal’ portrayed in the media and advertising, an all-party group of MPs has said

    • CBT helps child war victims

      • A new trauma-focused cognitive behaviour therapy has been shown to more than halve the trauma experienced by child victims of war, rape and sexual abuse

    • Forces families ‘need support’

      • The families of Armed Forces personnel should be better supported to deal with the emotional and psychological impact of deployment, a report from the Centre for Mental Health says

    • We must talk more about death and dying

      • People in the UK need to talk about death if they want their end-of-life wishes met, the Dying Matters Coalition says

    • Charity warns of cuts risk to children’s wellbeing

      • Cuts in welfare benefits and housing allowances could put the mental health of low income mothers at risk, the charity Family Action has warned

    • Troubles trauma still blights lives

      • People who experienced severe trauma during the Northern Ireland Troubles are still affected today, research into ageing and trauma shows

    • Briefly...

      • Some short news articles in brief

  • Editorial
    • Editorial Sarah Browne

      • As long as I’ve been editing this journal we’ve been receiving letters about the amount of people training to be counsellors (and the lack of jobs)

  • Letters
    • Losing the game? Peter Bowes

      • Harry Clayton, Chief Executive of the CHRE, says that ‘voluntary registration will be fair, transparent and accountable’

    • An end to inequality? Johanna Sartori

      • It was good to see Therapy Today commenting on Commissioning Effective Talking Therapies by Benjamin Fry and Samantha Callan

    • Twelve steps without God William Johnston

      • I was somewhat bemused to note that, in her article on 12-step group therapy, Rachel Young completely omitted any mention of the spiritual nature of the 12-step programme of Alcoholic Anonymous

  • Questionnaire
    • Questionnaire – Phillip Hodson

      • Psychotherapist and media pundit Phillip Hodson keeps himself grounded by digging potatoes

  • Day in the life

    • Counselling psychologist Carina Eriksen specialises in pilot and cabin crew mental health and fear of flying

  • Reviews
    • Suffering with purpose

      • The importance of suffering: the value and meaning of emotional discontent, James Davies, Routledge 2012, £22.99, ISBN 978-0415667807

    • Crossing cultures

      • The handbook of transcultural counselling and psychotherapy, Colin Lago (ed), Open University Press 2011, £28.99, ISBN 978-0335238491

    • Death in the family

      • Counselling and psychotherapy for families in times of illness and death (2nd edition), Jenny Altschuler, Palgrave Macmillan 2012, £23.99, ISBN 978-0230521001

    • Hope, sweat and prayers

      • Encountering depression: frequently asked questions answered for Christians, Andrew and Elizabeth Proctor, SPCK 2012, £8.99, ISBN 978-0281064724

    • Little monsters

      • A manual of dynamic play therapy: helping things that fall apart, the paradox of play, Dennis McCarthy, Jessica Kingsley 2012, £17.99, ISBN 978-1849058797

    • Cherish your body

      • Meditating with character, Kamalamani, Mantra Books 2012, £12.99, ISBN 978-1846945069

    • Us and them

      • Trauma, dissociation and multiplicity: working on identity and selves, Valerie Sinason (ed), Routledge 2012, £22.99, ISBN 978-0415554251

    • Literally translated

      • It’s raining cats and dogs: an autism spectrum guide to the confusing world of idioms, metaphors and everyday expressions, Michael Barton, Jessica Kingsley 2011, £9.99, ISBN 978-1849052832

  • Noticeboard
    • Supervision

      • Find a supervisor in your area

    • Placements

      • Find a placement in your area

    • Research

      • Participate in research

    • Networking

      • Find a group in your area or online

  • Dilemmas
    • Dilemmas – Just the three of us

      • Satya feels she has really benefited from therapy. Now she wants her partner to come to a therapy session. But perhaps the key question for her therapist is not whether but why?

  • Talking point Sue Gerhardt

    • The report published last month by Family Action alerts us powerfully to the impact of the austerity cuts on babies

• BACP
  • BACP News
    • BACP News

      • News from your Association

  • BACP Professional Conduct
    • BACP Professional Conduct Hearing
    • BACP Professional Conduct Hearing
  • BACP Professional Standards
    • BACP Professional Standards

      • Newly accredited members, supervisors and services

  • BACP Research
    • BACP Research

      • News from the BACP Research team

  • From the Chair
    • From the Chair – Small world, big questions Amanda Hawkins

      • We have so much to learn from our international neighbours, and so much to contribute. But we still don’t know how, writes Amanda Hawkins

  • BACP Policy
    • BACP Policy

      • News from the BACP Policy team

TT.net

• TT.net
  • TT.net extra
    • From the archive Nick Halpin

      • The ‘supporter’ type: is this you? Nick Halpin discusses analytical typology and the counselling personality, as shown in the detail of the typical female counsellor – but the male profile was a near match. It could be you!

    • In conversation

      • Colin Feltham interviews Nicola Banning about her research on why people continue to train as counsellors in a shrinking job market

    • Online supervision: when a client is distant Richard Bryant-Jefferies

      • Serena’s description of her client Alex, a new counsellor in training, as unwilling to engage with therapy, prompts supervisor Graham to question Serena’s expectations. ??Graham waits for his supervisee, Serena, to continue their dialogue

    • Why I became a counsellor Colin Lago

      • Getting out of the office could enable therapists to meet the needs of more clients

    • The Wednesday group Chris Rose

      • Episode 14: Being a grown-up

    • Behind the pictures Laura Hogan

      • Award winning artist Laura Carlin believes body language offers clues about a person’s character

    • In the news

      • A mother’s experience of racism can affect her child’s early development, research shows