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Volume 23
Issue 8
October 2012

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • Standing up for counsellors Davy Hutton

        • Counsellors in Northern Ireland are being expected to carry dangerously high caseloads, says Davy Hutton. The problem stems largely from the pressure on counselling organisations to cut costs in order to win tenders in an increasingly competitive market and, as a result, more counsellors are suffering burnout and compassion fatigue, he argues. Another contributing factor is the shortage of qualified supervisors in Northern Ireland. Employers recognise the need to ensure counsellors are appropriately qualified but appear much less worried about ensuring their counsellors have access to a trained supervisor. Hutton calls for a concentrated programme to train more supervisors and urges supervisors to challenge the bullying tactics of employers when the health and safety of clients and counsellors are at risk

      • Counselling in a cold climate Lysanne Sizoo

        • Counselling in Sweden today is like counselling in the UK in the 1970s. Only psychologists and psychotherapists are regulated by law and the Swedish samtalsterapeut, or ‘conversation therapist’, is barely recognised as a profession. Anyone can set up in practice using the title. In this article Lysanne Sizoo describes how she has battled to establish the Register for Accredited Counsellors in Sweden (RACS), based on the BACP register, in an attempt to create a more professional counselling sector. She also describes her own experiences of offering cross-cultural counselling to expatriates and the particular cultural and climactic pressures associated with living in Sweden that bring them to seek help

      • The deceptions of the pharmaceutical industry James Davies

        • Opinions are sharply divided over the benefits of antidepressants, but their manufacturers have earned universal opprobrium for their marketing techniques. A series of court cases in the past decade have revealed the dubious practices of the Big Pharma, which include manipulating and misreporting data from the trials of their antidepressant medications to suggest they are safer and perform far better than they do. James Davies highlights the financial links between the pharmaceutical industry and many of the professional bodies representing and governing the medical and psychiatric professions, as well as individual practitioners. He says that counsellors and psychotherapists should be very wary of accepting at face value the pronouncements of their medical colleagues about the efficacy of the drugs they prescribe

    • Cover feature
      • Yoga for the mind Jane Ryan

        • An international conference of neuroscientists and complementary therapists meets in London next month to discuss emerging evidence of the benefits of yoga for mental health. Yogis have traditionally practised yoga to calm the mind. Today yoga is increasingly recognised as a holistic approach to improving physical and mental health. Practitioners of integrated medicine say yoga improves physical wellbeing and mental health through its effects on affect regulation – the person’s ability to manage their feelings, especially when under pressure. Yoga is also effective with PTSD: trauma-sensitive yoga has been shown to be more effective than dialectical behaviour therapy in reducing PTSD symptoms. In this article Jane Ryan reviews the work of leading international neuroscientists in their quests to evidence and explain yoga’s healing powers

    • News feature
      • Happiness for all Catherine Jackson

        • As evidence grows of the direct links between social inequalities and mental wellbeing, Catherine Jackson talks to people in counselling and public mental health about what makes people happy

  • Regulars
    • Columns
      • In practice – Mental health by numbers Rachel Freeth

        • ‘If, on a scale of one to 10, where 10 represents your mood at its best and one at its worst, what number would you give yourself now?’ This question is quite often asked in mental health settings

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • I remember being very irritated by one of the other mothers at the primary school gates when she used to insist that her children tell her three good things about their school day. I tried it once with my kids but they just laughed

    • Letters
      • Outmoded notions of science Leslie Chapman

        • I have to congratulate Martin Seager on his excellent article, ‘Bad science and good mental health’

      • Insights of middle age Anne Alcock

        • Natalie Marshall-Shore, with reference to a recent Sunday Times article, asks why there are so many middle-aged women training to be counsellors...

      • Age is no barrier Nicola Barden

        • I am writing in response to Natalie Marshall-Shore’s letter regarding Cosmo Landesman’s article in the Sunday Times

      • It’s the real thing Annie Tunnicliffe

        • With reference to Kevin Ryan’s letter about being paid in cash...

      • No shame in taking cash Zoe Scholar

        • I have recently completed an MA in counselling and psychotherapy and wrote my dissertation on counsellors’ attitudes towards money, so I simply had to respond to Kevin Ryan’s letter ‘Cash in the hand’

      • In praise of melancholia Chris Payne

        • I found From Melancholia to Prozac by Clark Lawler (reviewed in Therapy Today, September 2012) an absorbing and coherent read

      • Morality and money Darran Tolley

        • I write in response to the letter from Kevin Ryan in September’s Therapy Today

      • Because we’re worth it Kate Williams

        • I was pleased to read in ‘From the Chair’ that BACP is discussing the standardising of pay for counsellors

      • Bernard Ratigan Dominic Davies

        • Bernard Ratigan (25 January 1945–29 September 2012), psychoanalytic psychotherapist and BACP Fellow

    • My life

      • Comedian and writer Rhona Cameron talks to John Daniel about adoption, therapy, healing and the life hereafter

    • Questionnaire
    • Reviews
      • Hooked online

        • iDisorder: understanding our obsession with technology and overcoming its hold on us, Larry Rosen, Palgrave Macmillan 2012, £15.99 (hardback), ISBN 978-0230117570

      • The beauty of brevity

        • The art and science of brief psychotherapies: an illustrated guide, Mantosh J Dewan, Brett N Steenbarger and Roger P Greenberg (eds), American Psychiatric Publishing 2012, £52.00, ISBN 978-1585623969

      • Freedom to choose

        • Existential perspectives on coaching, Emmy van Deurzen and Monica Hanaway (eds), Palgrave Macmillan 2012, £24.99, ISBN 978-0230293861

      • Sorrows every day

        • Still practicing: the heartaches and joys of a clinical career, Sandra Buechler, Routledge 2012, £22.99, ISBN 978-0415879132

      • Big book of trauma support

        • The international handbook of workplace trauma support, Rick Hughes, Andrew Kinder and Cary Cooper (eds), Wiley-Blackwell 2012, £110, ISBN 978-0470974131

      • Couples as parents

        • How couple relationships shape our world, Andrew Balfour, Mary Morgan and Christopher Vincent (eds), Karnac 2012, £27.99, ISBN 978-1855758377

      • No place for neutrality

        • Gender and power in families, Rosine Josef Perelberg and Ann C Miller (eds), Karnac 2012, £22.99, ISBN 978-1780490656

    • Dilemmas
      • Dilemmas – Transference in couples therapy

        • Lloyd has been working with Julie and Tom for around six weeks. He has not found the work easy and has sometimes struggled to contain the couple's aggression, some of which is directed towards him. One day, Lloyd comes across a blog written by Tom called ‘Couples counselling – a true story’. Should Lloyd bring this up in their next session?

    • Talking point Alison Faulkner

      • Alison Faulkner argues that people with mental health problems should be offered more choice and a say in their treatment

    • How I became a therapist Jon Treanor

      • Jon Treanor changed direction from a successful career in corporate business to train as a psychotherapist

  • BACP
    • BACP News
      • Divisional journals – Private Practice

        • A distinct identity. In the third article in a series about BACP’s portfolio of divisional journals, John Daniel introduces the BACP Private Practice journal

      • Making the future yours

        • The 2013 BACP student event promises to be the best yet, with a new exhibition area and a packed programme of workshops

    • BACP Research
    • BACP Policy

    • TT.net

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

        • Jacob Stead explains the inspiration, ideas and processes behind his illustrations for the October issue of Therapy Today

      • In the news

        • The Department of Health is inviting the public and practitioners to contribute to its Healthy Living and Social Care Red Tape Challenge to cut runnecessary regulations

      • In conversation

        • Colin Feltham talks to Lysanne Sizoo about her battle to introduce some form of self-regulation for counsellors in Sweden, and the barriers she has faced within and outside the profession

      • From the archive Wendy Harvey

        • Mindfulness in practice. Relating to our cover feature about yoga as therapy, our ‘From the archive’ article this month focuses on mindfulness. Mindfulness-based approaches can introduce people to fundamentally new ways of responding to life experiences, writes Wendy Harvey

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