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Dilemmas

This month's dilemma: Cameron gets on well with his therapist. They have developed a quasi-supervisory relationship during his counselling training and now he thinks she might be an ideal supervisor

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Student column

We’ve always been told throughout the counselling course that the journey each of us will follow during training will change us

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Hindsights

Why I became a counsellor

What makes a good therapist? What values do you hold dear? Former nurse Els van Ooijen wanted to be able to help her patients emotionally, but also to understand and heal herself

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Volume 19
Issue 9
November 2008

 

Britain is facing a big rise in mental illness during the credit crunch

  • Crisis could spark rise in mentally ill

  • Britain is facing a big rise in mental illness during the credit crunch, mental health charity Rethink has warned. A YouGov poll of 2,000 people showed 46 per cent of Britons said losing a home would affect their health. Paul Corry of Rethink said: ‘It isn’t just bricks and mortar at stake here, it’s people’s lives. This survey shows it worries millions of us. There’s an urgent need to prevent a mental health disaster.’
    Daily Mirror