Our knowledge of how eating disorders develop has changed in recent years – and practitioners who do not use research to adjust the help they offer are failing their clients

Noticing your thought patterns and relating to them in a different way is the route to healing within Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy – but can this meditation practice be integrated in our work?

As equine assisted therapy grows in popularity, it would seem that the old proverb ‘there’s nothing so good for the inside of a man as the outside of a horse’ is true, with regard to their intuitive understanding of humans. Clare Pointon reports ‘Rick and Joan had been having difficulties in their relationship and, despite a number of sessions of traditional therapy, felt they weren’t moving forward.

Victims of torture are finding healing through working in the Medical Foundation's Garden Project where they are empowered to communicate and regenerate in self-chosen ways alongside their therapists

Reality tv needs experts to comment. Are we putting ourselves on the line, letting ourselves down – or facilitating the safety of participants by boldly taking part?

Peter Stratton, director of the Family Therapy and Research Centre at the University of Leeds, believes our family systems are changing in form but continue to have relevance and durability

Given that the brain is unable to function well without appropriate fuel, Patrick Holford believes that a nutritional
approach is essential in the assessment and treatment of all psychological problems

Rather than parading as a specialised discipline, positive therapy offers a way of working where happiness is a goal to head for

Clients rarely present overtly for ‘pet loss’ but the death will have spread tendrils into the issues they deem more acceptable to bring

Is it possible to cut the stereotypical ribbon and open a highway between the worlds of counselling/psychotherapy and psychiatry?