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"Sadomasochistic sex is arguably one of the least understood and most demonised forms of consensual sexuality. How able are we to offer ethical therapy to kinky clients when there is so little awareness of the kink experience?"

In training - Endings and beginnings

Life has aquainted me in the past with ends. I have torn enough pages off the calendar to have marked the passing of close relatives, to have waved goodbye to workplaces and work colleagues, to have shared dinner with them and thanked them for the mantel clock.

In practice - A pile of dead leaves

2 June Three hours between clients. The sun is shining and it’s a shame to be indoors. The tall front hedge needs trimming and even with my new extendable battery-powered hedge-trimmer it’s a job I don’t relish, fearing one day I’ll over-reach and topple off the ladder

In the client’s chair - Walking alone

On Tuesday my friend Rachel sent me a text; she was in need of urgent advice. She had had three sessions of therapy following an initial assessment. She had left the last session early, convinced that the therapist was not for her.

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Introduction

Therapy Today is the UK's leading magazine for counselling and psychotherapy professionals. It offers readers insight into a broad range of therapy-related subjects; up-to-date thinking in the field; current research developments and topical national and international news.

Articles

We welcome articles offering new perspectives on current thinking; debate on practical or professional issues; theory discussions; shared experience and best practice.

Articles selected for publication are likely to be:

Original, insightful and authoritative
Of genuine interest to the majority of practitioners, or a sizeable group
Well-written using clear, non-technical language
Backed up by any available research

Therapy Today features articles from counsellors and psychotherapists, supervisors, students, managers, researchers and policy makers. We are looking for pieces that inform, challenge and inspire the reader.

Article construct - some advice

Before you start, have a clear idea of the concepts and information you want to convey and why they matter. Consider the audience - circa 30,000 therapists at various stages of experience and learning, including trainees. Articles need to capture the interest and be relevant to a range of practitioners.

If you are writing about research, please do not write an academic essay - convert your introduction, method, results and conclusions into a narrative format and pay particular attention to the opening paragraphs of your article, to engage the reader. If you are wondering how to bring your article to life, you may wish to include brief case studies, graphs or charts to illustrate it.

Submission requirements:

Word count - articles should not exceed 2,200 words without references, or 2,500 with references.

References - should be provided in Vancouver style. This means that references are numbered in the text in the order in which they appear. They are then collected together in numerical order at the end of the article. Numbers appear in the text in superscript.

Case studies - they make interesting and valuable reading. However, authors submitting a case study within their article are required to sign a statement that the client is not now recognisable from the text and that the client's informed consent has been given.

Copyright - the author is responsible for obtaining permission to use written or visual material from a third party and must provide evidence that this has been obtained. Copyright for the article is retained by BACP unless otherwise agreed with the Editor.

Author statement - the author should confirm that the manuscript has not been submitted elsewhere, or been accepted by any other publication, and send a declaration that the article is their own work. Please include no more than 50 words of biographical information including current work, relevant qualifications, research interests etc, and confirm if you would like your email address published.

How to submit an article

Please email, where possible, Word attachments to The Editor, therapytoday@bacp.co.uk

Alternatively, send a hard copy and disk to The Editor, Therapy Today, BACP, BACP House, 15 St. John's Business Park, Lutterworth, Leicestershire LE17 4HB.

Please include with your submission your name, address, daytime telephone number and email address, if available.

After submission

You can expect to receive confirmation that your article has arrived. We will let you know if your article is not suitable for publication.

If your article is accepted

Therapy Today is published 10 times a year (excluding January and August), and if your article is accepted, it may be held for publication in a specific themed/relevant issue. If you wish to see a proof of your article please request these when we send you acceptance. You can expect your article to be edited as part of the process to prepare it for publication.

Thank you for your interest in writing for Therapy Today. We hope we hear from you soon.

The Therapy Today team comprises of:
Sarah Browne, Editor
John Daniel, Commissioning Editor
Judy Stafford, PA to Editor
Niki Lawrence, Production Co-ordinator

Book reviews

If you would like to be considered for the reviewer panel, email your areas of expertise and interest to Sally Despenser, Reviews Editor reviews@bacp.co.uk

Associate editors

We regularly publish articles on supervison and groupwork. Contact Chris Rose, Associate Editor for groupwork contact@chrisrose.info and Bernice Sorensen for supervision bernicesorensen@googlemail.com if you would like to contribute.

News

We welcome news stories that are of genuine interest and relevance to counsellors and psychotherapists. We do not have a team of reporters to follow up leads and so request that press releases, news ideas, stories, research or statistics are sent to therapytoday@bacp.co.uk

NB: We do not publish news items about appointments, new services, products or events.

Letters for publication

To submit a letter, email therapytoday@bacp.co.uk or post it to The Editor, Therapy Today, BACP, BACP House, 15 St. John's Business Park, Lutterworth, Leicestershire LE17 4HB. Letters not published in Therapy Today may be published online at www.therapytoday.net subject to editorial discretion.

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July 2010, Vol. 21 Issue 6