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The Department of Health has recently announced further investment to improve access to talking therapies for children and young people. Catherine Jackson talks to researchers and practitioners about what’s being offered

The Government’s Work Programme to get the jobless back into employment could provide huge opportunities for counsellors and psychotherapists to demonstrate their worth

The American Psychiatric Association’s proposed revision of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders has thrown the mental health world into open conflict

BACP is inviting applications for its rejuvenated awards scheme. Catherine Jackson talks to last year’s winners about why they applied

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

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

Physical activity is good for your mood; physical activity in green spaces is even better, according to a steadily increasing body of robust, scientific research. Catherine Jackson talks to leading researchers and practitioners about ‘green exercise’ and learns that it isn’t just any physical activity anywhere. Housework makes women more depressed; low level physical activity can make no difference at all; walk-and-talk meetings in the outdoors can produce a surge of creative thinking and productivity; troubled youth learn self-regulation in wild spaces, and people with dementia blossom when they are let out to play in the park

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

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

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