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The article focuses on recent research in workplace counseling to mark World Day for Safety and Health at Work. Topics include workplace-related group therapy's effectiveness in reducing depressive symptoms, psychosocial interventions' impact on anxiety and depression in small and medium-sized enterprises, and the benefits of workplace mental health programs, particularly during the COVID-19 pandemic.

The article explores recent research in counseling and psychotherapy with LGBTQ+ clients, covering counselors experiences with LGBQ clients, therapy for older LGBTQ+ people of color using relational cultural theory, and the experiences of gay men in unhelpful therapy.

The article focuses on some studies related to psychotheraphy published in the recent issue of the journal "Counseling and Psychotherapy Research (CPR)." One of the studies found that practitioners and clients experience a shared powerlessness when asylum rejections interrupts the therapeutic process abruptly.

The article focuses on the aim of the Reforming the Mental Health Act white paper appears good in strengthening people's rights, expanding and providing more culturally appropriate advocacy and offering treatment choice to patients, this is contradicted by changes proposed in Health and Care Bill.

The article offers information on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy Research Conference to be held on May 14 and 15, 2020 in Greater Machester, England.

Are there ways in which creative writing can offer an effective tool for the reflective/reflexive practitioner, offering insights for use in supervision? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The author explores the effectiveness of creative writing as a tool for the reflective/reflexive practitioner. She states that writing freely in response to prompts from a tutor, or initiated by some impulse, opened up insights and intuitions that paralleled free association in the therapy room. She describes four exercises that she developed for exploring whether creative writing could develop reflexivity in a counsellor's exploration of her/his work with clients.

The article informs about 2020 BACP Research Conference, on May 15-16, 2019 in Bristol and cohosted with the University of the West of England, which provides a chance to win the CPCAB Counselling Research Award or the PCCS Books Student Prize.

The article offers information about an update of the consultation on the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy children and young people’s mental health green paper.

The article reports that Susie Orbach, a consultant psychotherapist, has condemned Great Britain's green paper on children’s mental health for its failure to address the part played by its own policies in the rising rates of referral to children and young people’s mental health services.

The article offers information on the opportunity for research presenters at the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) to have a paper based on their presentation published in the journal "Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (CPR).

The article calls for submissions of papers for the 22nd British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) Research Conference, which will take place in Brighton, England from May 20 to 21, 2016.

The article reports on the amount that the British government plans to invest in a set of proposals that will possibly transform children and young people's mental health care in England.

The article presents research papers regarding eating disorders. A qualitative research on the experiences and feelings reported by obese adults was conducted by Bidgood and Buckroyd. Godspeed and Boersma presented a paper on adults' explanations for obesity. The research from Treasure and Schmidt focuses on how the brain is affected by anorexia nervosa.

The article reports that the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling is seeking submissions for a issue on career guidance and counselling for migrants.

The article focuses on the conference, Research and Reflective Practice for the Counseling Professions, to be held in Chester, England during May 19-20, 2017.

A call for papers for the "Counselling and Psychotherapy Research" is presented.

The article mentions that student researchers Mick Cooper of the University of Roehampton and John McLeod of the University of Oslo need feedback on their 2015 research about the client helpfulness interview (CHI) method in counselling.

The article reports that November 7, 2014 is deadine for the 2015 BACP Research Conference.

The article reports that the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) is inviting submissions for the 2013 Annual Research Conference.

The article examines how therapists are responding to grief due to COVID-19. Topics include observation of Sigmund Freud on symptoms of mourning and melancholia, definition given by ICD-11 on prolonged grief disorder (PGD), and the publication of several papers on the impact of COVID-related deaths on people and the risk of developing PGD by bereavement researcher and psychologist Professor Robert Neimeyer.

The article explores as any therapist working in private practice, or any service provider, will tell you, the admin involved in running a practice can be time consuming. At its most basic level, it includes scheduling and booking appointments, tracking payments and recording and safely storing client notes and other personal data. I'm assuming I'm not the only practitioner who uses a mixed bag of digital and manual/ paper- based approaches.

An interview with professor Robert Neimeyer, one of the Western world's leading researchers, clinicians and educators in psychological approaches is presented. Topics discussed include his views on how she decided to make a career in the field of psychology; his thoughts on a paper in which he described a father traumatized by his daughter's death while she was travelling abroad; and the information he shared about the AfterTalk website.

The article discusses a collaboration between Working for You and Citizens U.K. to campaign for funded school and college counseling in England. It highlights the organization's response to a government white paper acknowledging mental health links to problem gambling and it describes an amendment to the victims and prisoners bill to protect rape survivors by limiting police requests for necessary and proportionate material, including therapy notes.

The article focuses on research papers related to anxiety in counseling and psychotherapy, including the effectiveness of non-directive play therapy in reducing anxiety in children, cognitive-behavioral therapies and mindfulness-based interventions for anxiety during the perinatal period.

The article discusses papers focusing on research in counselling and psychotherapy with students. Topics discussed include impact of technological challenges on the therapeutic process, issues associated with national database for student counselling and recent longitudinal study of 5,915 US college students found that around one in five reported non-suicidal self-injury.

The article presents the author's personal quest to study eating disorders in men. According to the author, he became increasingly interested in people with eating disorders and made several forays into the literature of the subject, particularly of anorexia nervosa and bulimia nervosa. Among the papers and texts he read, he found key pieces that informed him about the individual story he was searching for: Michael Krasnow's autobiography, My life as a Male Anorexic and Ralph Wilps' paper, Male Bulimia Nervosa: An Autobiographical Case Study.

The author shares her experience as someone who defines herself as asexual. She describes what it felt growing up asexual and then defines asexuality. She also explains the notion of asexuality as a sexual orientation and details how some writers thing of asexuality as a meta-category, namely sexual/asexual. In addition, the author offers an overview of the 2004 paper by Canadian researcher Anthony Bogaert titled "Asexuality: Prevalence and Associated Factors in a National Probability Sample."

The article announces the winners of three annual research awards, which were presented at British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's (BACP's) 2022 Research Conference in Dundee, Scotland, including the CPCAB Counseling Research Award to Dashnye Daloye for her paper "The Experiences of Black and Minority Ethnic (BME) Trainees in the Counselling Psychology Profession in the United Kingdom."

The article explores the significance of multilingualism in counseling/psychotherapy room, based on a research paper on multilingual clients' experiences of psychotherapy. Topics covered are the influence of language spoken on one's perception of him or herself and others, the competing identities of having different languages, and the importance of being able to switch languages in couples therapy. Also discussed is the emotional attachment and relationship with one's native language.

The author discusses the influence of food on mental health and wellbeing and its importance in the counseling service being provided by psychological therapists. She tackles the need for therapists to have a holistic view of their clients, the tendency for therapists to overlook the influence of diet and nutrition, and research papers on the link between mental health, nutrition and dietary lifestyle.

The author discusses her experience of creative and reflective writing groups which often serve as a medium of therapy through self exploration. She explains how an essentially group based activity can help people express thoughts and opinions. Some participants may be habitual writers, while some may have reservations about putting their thoughts on paper. Giving attendees the freedom to share their writing as and when they wish is an important aspect of facilitating writing groups. INSET: 'Liberating and emotional'.

In September a consultation paper was issued setting out the interim policy that should apply for prosecutions in cases of assisted suicide. Barbara Mitchels and Andrew Reeves refledt on the relevance of the policy for therapists. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article discusses the interim policy that must be applied for prosecutions in cases of assisted suicide in Great Britain and its impact on the work of therapists. The consultation paper issued by the Director of Public Prosecution (DPP) in September 2009 set out the proposed interim policy. It also examines the Suicide Act of 1961 that does not consider suicide or an attempt to do so as a criminal offence. It also presents the views of counsellors and psychotherapists on the policy.

The article reports that AGM takes place on 5 November and it will be a virtual event, and Ballot paper voting opens on 4 October and can vote on all AGM voting items, including those motions and resolutions that gained enough support at the previous stage.

The article offers information on ballot paper voting opens on October 4, 2021 and runs on November 5, the day of our Annual General Meeting (AGM) and members can vote in favour or against all AGM voting items, including those resolutions and motions that gained enough support at the previous stage.

The article discusses various reports and publications on couple counselling. In a recently published article, Christopher Clulow traces the patterns of attachment within couples. Stan Ruszinski demonstrates in his paper how working with a strikingly similar case in a heterosexual couple revealed itself as the polarity between the attractions/repulsions to that which the partners had most feared in themselves. A methodological framework was outlined by Sue Johnson in her report "Emotion in Couple Therapy."

After rummaging through papers on eating disorders and disentangling himself from the all-purpose medical model, this is one man's personal quest to understand the individual male client's perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article informs that Annual General Meeting (AGM) motions are on reduced hours and supervision, limits to client hours, the choice to opt out of paper copies of Therapy Today, prioritizing people on low incomes to access counseling, the senior accreditation process, private equity companies, novel practice methods, and a survey of professional qualifications held by members.

The article discusses that according to a group of researchers, there should be a clearer differentiation between student wellbeing and student mental health, in a paper published online in the Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal.

The article discusses things to consider by psychotherapists in counseling a couple. Referral may often be the most beneficial step to take if only one of the couple is present, depending on the type of relationship issue in question. Furthermore, the pen and paper exercises can often be shared in privacy with the patient's partner, providing a starting point for fresh discussion and exploration and for views to be aired, which may feel safer than addressing them with a stranger in the therapy room.

The article discusses the impact on therapeutic practice including research papers followed by the study of changes in the psychotherapy, and different counselors experiences.

The article discusses the role of counselling and psychotherapy in improving health and wellbeing based on a briefing paper released by BACP in 2013. BACP notes that counselling helps in promoting mental health using early intervention. The briefing paper argues that therapy plays a significant role in building resilience. Mind senior policy and campaigns officer Helen Undy notes that counselling and psychotherapy are needed for their preventive role.

The article discusses the role of counselling in improving public health wellbeing based on a briefing paper launched by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) in October 2013. The paper cites evidence showing that psychological resilience is associated with the ability of people to cope with problems in life. It also notes that emotional resilience plays a significant role in parent-child and family relationships as well as in community and social cohesion.

The article offers information of the Government's White Paper publication "Caring for our future: reforming care and support," and the All Party Parliamentary Group of Mental Health (APPG-MH) concerns about the impact of mental health services of the reformed NHS. Also discussed are several key features of the new system as explained by the white paper, including introducing greater national care and support, providing people more control over their care and improving integration of services.

The article offers information on the second International Conference on Pluralistic Counselling & Psychotherapy to be held on April 6–7 , 2019 that includes workshops, discussions, research papers and poster presentations on all aspects of the pluralistic approach related to psychotherapy.