Contents:

• Features
  • Features
    • The future is appy Phil Topham

      • Apps are increasingly being used to support CBT-based interventions for mental health problems. Phil Topham describes the first steps in a project to develop an app to provide self-help for social anxiety

    • Bodies in an embodied world Nick Totton
      • How we inhabit our bodies speaks volumes about how we are in the world. Nick Totton draws on his clinical work to explore some of the complex issues raised in body psychotherapy
    • A self divided Fiona Robyn
      • Fiona Robyn debates the ethical issues raised by maintaining two identities – one as a practising psychotherapist and another as an online blogger and author
  • Cover feature
    • A velvet fist in a steel glove Astrid Carrington

      • Astrid Carrington* describes her experience as therapist and client of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy, designed to unearth and resolve deeply buried core conflicts

  • News feature
    • Diagnostic disarray Catherine Jackson

      • 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

• Regulars
  • Columns
    • In the client’s chair – Boiling point Caitin Wishart
      • It has taken me three years to get angry in therapy and when it happened my ability to communicate went away. It was like a revolving door: the feeling arrived and the words left the building
    • In training – Three words say it all Marc Brammer

      • I recently attended the BACP student conference in York where the keynote speaker in the afternoon gave a really engaging talk based around the concept of using three words to describe your practice. This made me think about the three words I would choose to describe my practice and how it has evolved and developed throughout my training

    • In practice – The art of not doing Julia Bueno
      • Last week I attempted to write a blog for my personal website. I couldn’t access my editing system, so I checked my live site for the first time in a while...
  • News
    • Report links unemployment with teenage mental ill health
      • Teenagers may be more at risk of mental ill health because they are staying longer in education after leaving school, a review from the Nuffield Foundation says.
    • Isolation leads to depression
      • People who live on their own are much more likely to suffer from depression, a Finnish study published in BMC Public Health shows
    • Pooch power cuts employee workplace stress
      • Taking your dog to work may reduce workplace stress, new research shows
    • Cameron launches ‘challenge’ to tackle dementia toll
      • The Government is to increase funding for research into dementia to £66 million by 2015, Prime Minister David Cameron has said
    • National Trust report warns of ‘nature deficit disorder’
      • Children’s health and education are suffering because they don't have enough contact with nature, the National Trust has warned in a new report
  • Editorial
    • Editorial Sarah Browne
      • Personally, I hope that the future is not ‘appy’ but I can appreciate that mental health apps might have their uses: for one thing, they save money and people want the flexibility of having access to help anywhere and any time
  • Letters
    • CfD and pseudo-science Leslie Chapman
      • It wasn’t until I read the last sentence of Peter Pearce, Ros Sewell, Andy Hill and Helen Coles’ article on Counselling for Depression that I realised I had a problem with it
    • Dead end of data collection Lil Wills
      • Nic Streatfield suggests a number of reasons why therapists may be reluctant to collect outcomes data in therapy sessions, but it seems to me that he fails to mention what may be the most important reasons for what he terms ‘therapist resistance’
    • Lunch is still for wimps
      • I found Leslie Chapman’s article ‘Stress in the City’ intriguing. As an ex-financial services research analyst with two international investment banks, I would like to posit a few irrefutable facts that compound the ‘toxic’ environment
    • Signs of narcissism? Deanne Jade
      • Writing as a psychologist who reads Therapy Today to keep in touch with the world of counselling, I was perturbed by the ‘In the client’s chair’ column in the March issue
    • Making every word count Mark Emery
      • I read with interest the article ‘Poetry please’ by Sarah Van Gogh and, as a counsellor who avidly reads and struggles to write poetry, I am fascinated by how a few well-chosen words can move and sometimes change us
    • Poetry praise Ornella Bushell
      • I really enjoyed the article by Sarah Van Gogh. I am a practising counsellor and throughout my teenage years and now in middle age I have always written poetry, having my poetry published as well as performing it
    • Unbiased truth Francesca Delescluse
      • In his article ‘Reconstructing masculinity’, Manu Bazzano refers to ‘gender bias’ when discussing dealing with murderous feelings in men and reactions to a male counsellor colleague’s account by female therapy tutors
    • Rediscovering masculinity Sue Beaney-Edwards
      • I was really pleased to read Manu Bazzano’s article ‘Reconstructing masculinity’ as it skilfully articulated what I have sensed, as the mother of three sons and a therapist who enjoys working with men
    • Loudly silenced Shelley Skipper
      • Like Terry Pratchett’s Old Tom, a magical bell tower that tolls with tremendous silences, I was rather struck by the absence of bisexual and transgender clients in David Richards’ article
  • Questionnaire
    • Questionnaire – Robert Elliott
      • He once aspired to be Gandalf. Today Robert Elliott finds satisfaction in running, cooking, exploring Scotland and watching the ripples from his work become absorbed into therapy research
  • Day in the life
    • Transgender psychotherapist and activist Michelle Bridgman believes that everyone has a right to feel fulfilled
  • Reviews
    • Giving sorrow words
      • Shakespeare and son: a journey in writing and grieving, Keverne Smith, Praeger 2011, £40, ISBN 978-031339206
    • You are not alone
      • Loneliness and longing: conscious and unconscious aspects, Brent Willock, Lori C Bohm, Rebecca Coleman Curtis (eds), Routledge 2012, £23.99, ISBN 978-0415619088
    • Attachment matters
      • Disorganised attachment and caregiving, Judith Solomon and Carol George (eds), Guilford Press 2011, £33.95, ISBN 978-1609181284
    • Security and care
      • Psychological therapy in prisons and other secure settings, Joel Harvey, Kirsty Smedley (eds), Willan 2010, £25, ISBN 978-1843927990
    • More than one person
      • The practice of person-centred couple and family therapy, Charles O’Leary, Palgrave Macmillan 2011, £18.99, ISBN 978-0230233188
    • Inheritance of loss
      • Working with families of African Caribbean origin, Elaine Arnold, Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2011, £19.99, ISBN 978-184309921
    • Gestalt at a gallop
      • Gestalt therapy with Glenys Jacques (DVD), Steve Couch and Peter Woolliscroft (dir), Parradigm Pictures 2011, £29.99, Running time: 95 minutes, ASIN B006KQL99O
    • Freud versus God
      • Understanding religion and spirituality in clinical practice, Margaret Clark, Karnac 2012, £15.99, ISBN 978 1855758704
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  • Dilemmas
    • Dilemmas: A friend in need

      • Janet recommends her own supervisor to a friend looking for a therapist. Then they fall out. And suddenly Janet’s relationship with her supervisor becomes a potentially unsafe space

  • Talking point Louis Heyse Moore

    • Assisted suicide has been in the news recently. Tony Nicklinson, who has locked-in syndrome, wants the High Court to sanction the ending of his life by a doctor – in other words, euthanasia. Can it be right that the life-savers become the life-takers?

• BACP
  • BACP News
    • BACP Awards scheme

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

    • BACP News
      • News from your Association
  • BACP Professional Standards
    • BACP Professional Standards
      • Details about newly accredited counsellors/psychotherapists, supervisors and services
  • BACP Research
    • BACP Research
      • News and information from the BACP Research department
  • From the Chair
    • From the Chair: Valuing the human connection Amanda Hawkins

      • In the US, counsellors have a much higher status than their peers in the UK. But many of the conversations between counsellors are about the same concerns, says Amanda Hawkins

TT.net

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

      • Nick Lowndes enjoyed the challenge of applying his bold, graphic style to capture the emotive issues discussed in the articles

    • From the archive Robert Shaw

      • Psychotherapist embodiment. The therapy world has for too long sidelined the importance of the body, says therapist and former osteopath Robert Shaw. If we can learn to understand more about the significance of our own physical reactions in the consulting room, then we may be able to use them as therapeutic tools

    • The Wednesday group: episode 11a Chris Rose

      • Back in the supervision group

    • The Wednesday group: episode 12 Chris Rose

      • You just don't get it!

    • In the news

      • Unemployment rates are rising across all sectors and for men and women alike, but people with long-term illnesses are worst affected

    • In conversation

      • Colin Feltham interviews April Therapy Today contributor Astrid Carrington* about the risks and benefits of Intensive Short-Term Dynamic Psychotherapy

    • Online supervision: child protection Richard Bryant-Jefferies

      • Donna has been working as a counsellor for five years and has recently started working at a school. This is a new field of work for her and one that she is passionate about, having wanted to work with young people for a long time. The school takes children from age 12 upwards.
        
        Michael has been providing her with online supervision for the past year. The session has just begun and he has just asked her where she would like to begin

    • Why I became a counsellor Eleanor Patrick

      • Attention to detail and being trustworthy and honorable are essential gifts, says Eleanor Patrick