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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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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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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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More needs to be done to support the children of parents with mental illness, says children’s charity Barnardo’s
Plea for children of mentally ill
More needs to be done to support the children of parents with mental illness, says children’s charity Barnardo’s. A recent report, Family Minded, says children do not get enough information on their parent’s condition, and that mental hospital visits can be traumatic.
Commenting on the report, Dr Andrew McCulloch, chief executive of the Mental Health Foundation, said: ‘A range of services including talking therapies and practical social support need to be made available to everyone in the family – we must stop leaving families to struggle on their own to cope with mental illness.’www.bbc.co.uk
