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Volume 23
Issue 6
July 2012

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • From nightmare to memories Robin Logie

        • Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) is now well established as an effective way to treat post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Robin Logie reviews the evidence for this approach, and explains how bilateral stimulation of the right and left sides of the brain enables traumatic experiences to be ‘metabolised’, learned from and stored safely away for reference. However, increasingly, practitioners are successfully using these same techniques with a range of other mental health conditions that are trauma-related, from depression to obsessive compulsive disorder, and in pain management

      • Lasting the course Rosemary Cowan

        • Training as a counsellor or psychotherapist can seriously damage your relationship with your partner. Rosemary Cowan – herself once a trainee, and whose partner was also training as a counsellor – interviewed trainees and their partners to explore the pressures that counselling training placed on their relationships. Her findings offer fascinating insights. Some of the stresses were practical and financial and to do with the demands and costs of the course. But others emerged as the trainee’s understanding of themselves and others around them underwent a fundamental transformation, and needed careful negotiation

      • Sexuality in a market society Manu Bazzano

        • What does it tell us about attitudes to sexuality today that Relate can get happily into bed with Ann Summers, the well-known high street sex toy shop, to promote the results of their joint Sex Census? Manu Bazzano reviews the findings of the census and goes on to explore our changing attitudes to sexuality in an increasingly commercialised world where, he argues, the media’s representations of sex as a desirable commodity ‘collide with our natural human desire for mutual exploration, communication and passionate engagement’

    • Cover feature
      • Humming in Maori Jeannie Wright

        • Jeannie Wright has spent many years practising transculturally – initially in multi-cultural England, then New York, Fiji and Aotearoa New Zealand. Here she reveals the costs (financial but emotional too), challenges and joys of working in cultures that are completely alien to our own in the western world, and how ill-suited the fundamental assumptions underpinning western counselling ethical frameworks are to these contexts. She offers some words of hard-won advice to would-be transcultural practitioners

    • News feature
      • The joy of exercise Catherine Jackson

        • 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

  • Regulars
    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • I have never needed research to convince me of the psychological benefits of being active in natural environments. I hesitate to use the word ‘exercise’ because it sounds like something else we are supposed to do

    • Letters
      • BACP must stand fast Carol Jones

        • Each month I open my copy of Therapy Today to read yet more tortuous attempts by BACP to make compromises on behalf of its members in relation to regulation, accreditation and IAPT

      • Reinventing the register Vernon Cutler

        • BACP’s capacity for reinventing itself and responding to the ‘wind of change’ never ceases to amaze me

      • Nobody asked us Francis Atkinson

        • I would like to thank Peter Bowes for raising important issues and concerns about BACP’s proposed reform of the BACP register for the introduction of the National Voluntary Registration Scheme

      • God and the greater good Brian Tasker

        • I’m writing in response to William Johnston’s letter noting the absence of a reference to God in Rachel Young’s article on 12-step group therapy for addiction

    • Questionnaire
      • Edward Sallis OBE

        • Recently appointed Chair of the new BACP Registration Advisory Board, Edward Sallis is passionate about the power of education to transform lives

    • Day in the life

      • For many looked after children and young people, allowing themselves to be cared for is a deeply scary experience, says psychotherapist Denis Bruce

    • Reviews
      • Practice makes perfect

        • Cognitive behavioural therapy: the essential guide Sara Goldsmith Pascoe Need2Know 2012, £9.99 ISBN 978-1861442314

      • Back from the brink

        • A comprehensive guide to suicidal behaviours: working with individuals at risk and their families David Aldridge, Sergio Perez Barrero Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2012, £19.99 ISBN 978-1849050258

      • Bridging the divides

        • Integrative counselling and psychotherapy: a relational approach, Ariana Faris and Els van Ooijen, Sage Publications, £21.99 (pb), ISBN 978-0857021274

      • The lemon tree dies

        • Underneath the lemon tree: a memoir of depression and recovery Mark Rice-Oxley Little, Brown 2012, £13.99 ISBN 978-1408703786

      • Weaving for women

        • Using textile arts and handcrafts in therapy with women: weaving lives back together Ann Futterman Collier Jessica Kingsley Publishers 2011, £19.99 ISBN 978-1849058384

      • Nurturing the child’s mind

        • Minding the child: mentalization-based interventions with children, young people and their families Nick Midgley, Ionna Vrouva (eds)  Routledge 2012, £22.99 ISBN 978-0415605250

      • The past made present

        • The silent past and the invisible present: memory, trauma and representation in psychotherapy Paul Renn Routledge 2012, £22.99 ISBN 978-0415898591

      • Call of the wild

        • Vital signs: psychological responses to ecological crisis Mary-Jayne Rust, Nick Totton (eds)  Karnac Books 2012, £24.99
          ISBN 978-1780490489

    • Dilemmas
      • Dilemmas: When two roles are too many

        • Ben wants to work as a counsellor in the agency where he is already employed as the receptionist. His manager feels under pressure to support his career development, but would this dual role be ethical?

    • Talking point Sam Jenkins

      • After more than 10 years working as a psychotherapist in a large voluntary sector mental health charity, I have been made redundant. The work has not changed or lessened, the clients are still there, the waiting lists are long, the local authority and health service funding is still in place. The charity, however, has decided that it needs to be leaner, more flexible and more responsive

  • BACP
    • BACP News
      • BACP Healthcare journal

        • In the first of a series of articles on BACP’s portfolio of divisional journals through the eyes of their editors, Sarah Hovington introduces the BACP Healthcare journal

    • From the Chair
      • Do we need to get out more? Amanda Hawkins

        • Is it time to step outside the therapy room to tackle the social injustices that often bring people to us for help?

    • BACP Policy
      • BACP Policy

        • A backbench business debate has provided an opportunity for MPs to discuss mental illness, including their own

    • TT.net

  • TT.net
    • TT.net extra
      • Why I became a counsellor Manu Bazzano

        • A good supervisor, care of self and respect for the client’s autonomy are the bedrock of good therapeutic practice

      • Behind the pictures Laura Hogan

        • Kyle Smart describes what inspired his illustrations for the July issue of Therapy Today

      • From the archive Nick Totton

        • Wild at heart: another side of ecopsychology. The wild mind is spontaneous, co-creative, self-balancing and wise. We need to access it and make friends with it if we are radically to change our behaviour towards the rest of the world, argues Nick Totton

      • In conversation Colin Feltham

        • Colin Feltham interviews Jeannie Wright about transcultural counselling, cultural identity and wanderlust

      • Online supervision: competency issues Richard Bryant-Jefferies

        • Kenneth is waiting for his online supervision session to begin with Angela. She recently started working in a prison and Kenneth is very conscious that he has never worked in a prison setting himself. Nor has he previously supervised anyone else who was working in a prison. He is wondering what issues Angela will bring to supervision and whether his lack of experience matters. When they discussed this in their last supervision session, Angela was OK about his lack of experience but Kenneth is still worried

      • In the news

        • Young people who use cannabis on a regular basis may suffer long-term damage to their intelligence, attention and memory

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