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Volume 23
Issue 7
September 2012

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • Mindfulness for students Ariana Faris

        • Ariana Faris provides the counselling service at the Royal Welsh College of Music and Drama. In this article she describes a mindfulness training programme that she and her colleague devised for students suffering from performance anxiety. The article starts with a brief overview of mindfulness theory and its applications before going on to show how the programme helped RWCMD students break the vicious cycle of performance anxiety and loss of confidence. She goes on to argue that mindfulness can also be a means to enhance overall academic performance and general wellbeing in the student population, thereby ensuring that more students are able to complete, benefit from and enjoy their studies.

      • Clinical hypnosis in practice John Butler

        • Clinical hypnosis offers invaluable tools to add to the counsellor’s skills, says John Butler. Here he gives a brief overview of the history and development of clinical hypnosis over the centuries and in different cultures. He goes on to explore the power of the human imagination to effect recovery from physical illness. He explains how hypnosis techniques allow the practitioner to harness that power to help the client. He ends with some examples from his own caseload where he has used clinical hypnosis to help clients feel more in control of their lives in a range of different applications and with different cultures

    • Cover feature
      • Bad science and good mental health Martin Seager

        • Martin Seager argues that the scientific paradigm underpinning our mental health culture is deeply flawed. The medical model, with its emphasis on the physical and material, has been allowed to dominate our understanding of mental health and illness at the expense of the mind. Instead of being factored out as subjective and therefore ‘soft’, the mind should be factored in to scientific research. Seager argues for a marriage of mind and body, of the objective and subjective, in a genuinely holistic approach to researching and finding ways to help people who have been psychologically damaged. We need a new science that gives equal weight to meanings and relationship and the work of counsellors and psychotherapists alongside medical treatment.

    • News feature
      • Families in trouble Catherine Jackson

        • Does counselling have a place in interventions to help ‘troubled families’ break free from the cycle of disadvantage? Catherine Jackson talks to practitioners on the frontline

  • Regulars
    • Columns
      • In practice – We are human too Rachel Freeth

        • ‘Where do you stand on God?’ John asked me. The question seemed to come out of the blue, both in terms of what he had shared with me during the previous 20 minutes and because he had never before in our meetings asked me about my personal beliefs or opinions

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • Martin Seager, author of our cover feature this month, is sick of hearing counsellors being told that they are unscientific and that they must jump on the IAPT bandwagon and become evidence-based

    • Letters
      • Why be accredited? Tom Cowan

        • I am responding to the letters from Vernon Cutler and Francis Atkinson on BACP accreditation in the July issue of Therapy Today

      • Cash in the hand Kevin Ryan

        • Last week I felt a bit criminal. Like many counsellors in private practice, some clients pay me per session in cash – an action that now seems, according to David Gauke, the Treasury Minister, to be ‘morally wrong’. As I took payment from a client, were they looking at me as a potential tax evader, the moral equivalent of a City wide boy?

      • Mind and body building Andy Darling

        • As a counsellor, supervisor and personal trainer, I was pleased to see that Therapy Today was running a feature on exercise and wellbeing

      • Unbalanced picture of counselling John Williams

        • I have to say that I thought the article ‘Who wants to be a counsellor?’ by Nicola Banning (Therapy Today, June 2012) and the accompanying editorial were simply pure protectionism

      • Have couch, need clients Natalie Marshall-Shore

        • Did anyone else read Cosmo Landesman’s article ‘Analyse this’ in The Sunday Times’ Style Magazine? Never have I had such mixed reactions to a single article

      • Second best status Carla Thompson

        • From the discussions on LinkedIn, it is getting increasingly obvious that many members of BACP are very much against its approach to reforming the register

      • The right journey Natalie Lunn

        • I have just finished the first year of my diploma in therapeutic counselling within a person-centred approach. I am fully aware that I have much to learn still and am in many ways at the start of this journey

      • A helping paw Kathryn Kimbley

        • I was very pleased to see that the March edition of Therapy Today’s main feature looked at equine facilitated therapy

    • Questionnaire
      • Questionnaire – Lynette Harborne

        • Psychotherapist and spiritual director Lynette Harborne believes it’s the process not the product that matters most – especially in knitting

    • Day in the life

      • The trauma of the Troubles is only now coming to the surface, says Helena Stuart, psychotherapist at the Wave Trauma Centre in Belfast

    • Reviews
      • Eastern insights

        • Art therapy in Asia: to the bone or wrapped in silk, Debra Kalmanowitz, Jordan Potash and Siu Mei Chan (eds), Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2012, £24.99, ISBN 978-1849052108

      • Freud revitalised

        • A brief introduction to psychoanalytic theory, Stephen Frosh, Palgrave Macmillan 2012, £14.99, ISBN 978-0230369306

      • Muddied melancholy

        • From melancholia to Prozac: a history of depression, Clark Lawlor, Oxford University Press 2012, £14.99, ISBN 978-0199585793

      • Growing up with gods

        • Children growing up with religion: ten narratives explored, Lucy Birtwhistle and Lindsay Smith, York Publishing Services Ltd 2012, £9.99, ISBN 978-0957258006

      • Seeing and saying

        • Destructive myths in family therapy: how to overcome barriers to communication by seeing and saying – a humanistic perspective, Daniela Kramer-Moore and Michael Moore, Wiley-Blackwell 2012, £27.99, ISBN 978-0470667002

      • Sanity in selfhood

        • Selfhood: a key to the recovery of emotional wellbeing, mental health and the prevention of mental health problems, Terry Lynch, Mental Health Publishing 2011, £15.99, ISBN 978-1908561008

      • Relationship matters

        • Therapist and client: a relational approach to psychotherapy, Patrick Nolan, Wiley-Blackwell 2012, £29.99, ISBN 978-0470019535

      • Worthy and weighty

        • The Wiley-Blackwell handbook of group psychotherapy, Jeffrey L Kleinberg (ed), Wiley-Blackwell 2012, £110, ISBN 978-0470666319

    • Dilemmas
      • Dilemmas: Caught in the middle

        • Janine thinks two of her supervisees are both working with the same vulnerable client but that the client hasn’t told either of them. Should Janine reveal what she suspects?

    • Talking point Dominic Davies

      • Lesbian, gay and bisexual people are a lucrative ‘cash cow’ for many therapists as we have higher rates of mental health distress than the general population and present more frequently for mental health support

  • BACP
    • BACP News
      • Divisional journals – Coaching Today

        • Mining for riches. In the second of a series of articles on BACP’s portfolio of divisional journals, editor Diane Parker introduces the BACP Coaching journal

    • BACP Research
    • BACP Policy

    • TT.net

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

        • Illustrator Mark Preston uses 3D software to add an extra dimension to his photomontages

      • In conversation

        • Colin Feltham challenges Martin Seager to justify his call for a less materialist, more subjective understanding of the mind and how it works

      • From the archive Pete Sanders

        • Decoupling psychological therapies from the medical model. Adopting an illness model of distress is too high a price to pay for the professionalisation of counselling and psychotherapy. We need to establish a more humane and constructive alternative

      • Online supervision

        • Whistleblowing. In the last in this series, Richard Bryant-Jefferies and Caro Bailey explore the options open to a supervisor who is considering blowing the whistle on potential malpractice on behalf of their supervisee

      • In the news

        • California is to introduce a ban on gay reparative or conversion therapy for young people aged under 18 years

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