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Volume 24
Issue 1
February 2013

 

Contents:

  • Features
    • Features
      • When passion cools Anne Power

        • Anne Power reviews effective approaches to working with couples who have lost desire for one another. Drawing on attachment and other theories, she explains how the counsellor can help partners understand how they reached this point in their relationship, the factors and mechanisms that are often at work, and how these can be addressed and dismantled to allow their passion to rekindle. Chronic apathy is not inevitable in a long-term relationship, she writes.

      • A philosophy of wonder Paul Gordon

        • Maurice Merleau-Ponty’s brilliant writings on the body, sexuality, language and the ‘poetry of human relations’ has much to offer today’s counsellors and psychotherapists, argues Paul Gordon, in this appreciation of the post-war French philosopher and intellectual sparring partner of Sartre and de Beauvoir.

      • When the war is over Sian Morgan

        • When the guns fall silent, the trauma endured by fighters and civilian populations alike lives on in disturbing and distressing symptoms of post-traumatic stress. Sian Morgan reports on the work of the voluntary sector organisation Humanitarian Assistance Programmes UK & Ireland to bring EMDR to traumatised peoples by skilling up war-torn countries’ own mental health professionals and services to deliver this very effective treatment and establish training centres.

      • Strangers in a strange land Anne Crisp

        • Clients from deprived and disadvantaged communities may not have the knowledge and language to engage easily with counselling. Anne Crisp reports findings from her research with counselling colleagues in East London to explore the skills, attitudes and approaches they use to reach out to ‘unprepared clients’, and how and where they learned them.

    • Cover feature
      • Insecurity of tenure Liz Ballinger

        • Liz Ballinger fears for the survival of counselling training in higher and further education

    • News feature
      • E-therapy, equality and access Catherine Jackson

        • Catherine Jackson explores the digital revolution and its power to transform the therapeutic relationship

  • Regulars
    • Columns
      • In practice – Meaning-making and medication Rachel Freeth

        • It was probably inevitable that, as a psychiatrist, I would want to devote a column to the topic of psychiatric drugs. I am also aware, from giving workshops on the subject, that it is one about which many therapists are keen to know and understand more

      • In the client's chair – A little community kindness Dawn Lang

        • It all started in the late 1990s when I got misdiagnosed with fibromyalgia – I actually had a dental problem. Fibromyalgia is terrible – you feel like you have flu the whole time; you feel really feverish and disoriented...

      • In training – Resistance is futile Mel Perry

        • On announcing my intention to re-train as a counsellor, the qualified therapists I told laughed warmly, but with a glint in their eye. Once in the classroom, we all agreed on our reasons for wanting to train as counsellors: wanting to help others, of course

    • News
      • CBT workshops cut teenage alcohol use

        • Targeted CBT interventions can significantly reduce alcohol consumption among school-age young people at high risk of emotional and behavioural problems, a UK randomised controlled trial has shown

      • Rape case outcomes

        • One in five women has been a victim of a sexual offence since the age of 16, a new report from the Ministry of Justice, Home Office and Office for National Statistics reveals

      • New standard for training

        • The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education has published the first ever national benchmark standard for university graduate and postgraduate training in counselling and psychotherapy

      • EAP tax relief

        • The Department for Work and Pensions is to set up a new independent assessment and advisory service to help employers get people back to work and keep them off long-term sickness benefits

      • E-mental healthcare welcomed

        • Digital technology could transform mental health care and bring more help to more people when and where they want it, says a report from the NHS Confederation Mental Health Networ

    • Editorial
      • Editorial Sarah Browne

        • I have just returned from BACP’s Evening with Yalom by video link, which was attended by nearly 1,000 BACP members

    • Letters
      • Let’s work together for survival

        • I’d like to respond to recent letters and articles about the perceived failings of managers of voluntary/community sector counselling organisations

      • Too darn complicated Roslyn Byfield

        • I had several reactions to the responses to December’s dilemma on issues around confidentiality and Peter Jenkins’ interesting commentary on those responses

      • Glaring omission Andrew Peden

        • Following on from the advice of several counsellors, Peter Jenkins provided an excellent overview of the legal situation in the December 2012 Dilemmas article on historic sexual abuse

      • Despair and alarm Van Tran

        • It is very rare for me to respond to a journal article, but I was alarmed and deeply worried to read the counsellors’ responses to the historic sexual abuse dilemma in the December 2012 issue

      • Ethical and accountable Angela Spanswick

        • I have recently obtained my therapeutic counselling diploma from the CPCAB, and am now working towards accreditation

      • Dangerous advice on abstention Gerry Williams

        • In December’s ‘Talking point’, Alice King makes a vehement plea for counsellors not to turn away alcohol-addicted clients who are still drinking

      • Market values Ian Argent

        • The contributor writing as ‘angry and unemployed’ in the December 2012 Therapy Today Letters pages makes several important points about standards and training

    • Questionnaire
    • Reviews
      • Welcome, stranger

        • Spectre of the stranger: towards a phenomenology of hospitality, Manu Bazzano, Sussex Academic Press, 2012, 164pp, £16.95, ISBN 978-1845195380

      • Crossing cultures

        • Counseling across the cultural divide: the Clemmont E Vontress reader, Roy Moodley, Lawrence Epp and Humair Yusuf (eds), PCCS Books, 2012, 380pp, £22, ISBN 978-1906254490

      • Dealing with depression

        • Depressive illness: the curse of the strong, Tim Cantopher, Sheldon Press, 2012, 128pp, £7.99, ISBN 978-1847092359

      • Troubles with mother

        • Difficult mothers: understanding and overcoming their power, Terri Apter, WW Norton, 2012, 256pp, £16.99, ISBN 978-0393081022

      • Straight talking

        • Sex, love and the dangers of intimacy: a guide to passionate relationships when the ‘honeymoon’ is over, Nick Duffell and Helena Løvendal-Duffell, Lone Arrow Press, 2012, 240pp, £15, ISBN 978-0953790425

      • The power of words

        • Writing in bereavement: a creative handbook, Jane Moss, Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2012, 264pp, £19.99, ISBN 978-1849052122

      • Existential approaches

        • The existential counselling primer: a concise, accessible and comprehensive introduction, Mick Cooper, PCCS Books, 2012, 111pp, £11.99, ISBN 978-1906254513

      • Commercial concerns

        • The business of therapy: how to run a successful private practice, Pauline L Hodson, McGraw-Hill, 2012, 168pp, £21.99, ISBN 978-0335245635

    • Dilemmas
      • Dilemmas: Placement supervision

        • Augustus and his colleagues are reluctant to continue to fund their own supervision while volunteering with a counselling agency

    • Talking point JP Corrigan

      • The recent upsurge in sectarian violence in Belfast should alert all of us to the dangers of social disconnection, writes JP Corrigan

    • How I became a therapist

      • ‘I have definitely changed. The real question is, what have I changed to?’ Divine Charura explains what brought him into the therapy profession

    • The interview

      • In the first of our new series, Colin Feltham interviews Michael Jacobs, whose seminal text, The Presenting Past, was recently republished in its fourth edition

  • BACP
    • BACP News
    • BACP Professional Standards
      • BACP Professional Standards

        • Newly accredited counsellors/psychotherapists, members whose accreditation has been reinstated and members not renewing accreditation

    • BACP Research
    • BACP Policy
    • BACP Register

      • From February BACP will be running events across the country where members can take the Certificate of Proficiency assessment that gives entry to the BACP Register

    • TT.net

  • TT.net
    • TT.net extra
      • This week's news

        • The latest news for counselling professionals, updated weekly

      • From the archive Paula Hall

        • Paula Hall debates the need for specialist sex therapists in this article from March 2004

      • Behind the pictures

        • Barry Falls explains the inspiration behind his illustrations for the February issue

      • In conversation

        • Colin Feltham interviews Liz Ballinger about the threats to the future of counselling courses in further and higher education

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