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

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.

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 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 focuses on the effect of the "Every child matters" (ECM) green paper on statutory services, agencies, and therapists in Great Britain. The ECM legislation aims to promote the health, safety, and economic well-being of children. It claims that ECM demands the merging of services for children, thus urging professionals to rethink their strategies and service deliveries. Moreover, ECM caused the publication of service development plans by county councils to attain their objectives.

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 discusses the National Health Service (NHS) White Paper "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS," published by the British Department of Health. It notes that the White Paper outlines the long-term vision of the government for the future of NHS. Individual consultations concerning the White Paper include regulating healthcare providers, increasing democratic legitimacy in health, commissioning for patients, and transparency in outcomes.

The article reports on the potential of old-fashioned primary care, in combination with low-intensity peer support, to prevent postnatal depression in women at high risk in Great Britain. It highlights two papers published in the "British Medical Journal" and an accompanying editorial which discussed on postnatal depression. These papers suggested that properly trained health care professionals are willing to help those patients with postnatal depression.

The article reports on the opposition of some organizations to the British White Paper "Trust, Assurance and Safety--The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century," published on February 21, 2007. The paper confirms the government's intention to introduce statutory regulation for applied psychologists, psychotherapists, and other psychological therapists through the Health Professions Council. The paper was rejected by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

The article focuses on the paper "Trust Assurance and Safety--The Regulation of Health Professionals in the 21st Century" that was published on February 21, 2007. The paper has confirmed the British government's preference for the Health Professions Council (HPC) as the regulator of counselling and psychotherapy. The paper states that the HPC has the most expertise in bringing new professions into statutory regulation and also in regulating a wide range of professions within a common system.

This article reports that the Government White paper on health care, released on 30 January 2006, aims to ensure greater working between health and social care in Great Britain. The proposals aims to make community services more flexible and give patients and service users more control over the treatment they receive. The paper includes a focus on mental health, including the piloting of talking therapies, the development of standards for these, the regulation and light-touch registration of counsellors and psychotherapists, and a commitment to more anti-stigma and anti-discrimination work.

This article informs that British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy's (BACP's) Public Consultation Network (PCN) has just celebrated its first 12 months of activity as of March 27, 2004. Membership of the PCN is open to all BACP members who wish to contribute to written responses from BACP on a variety of public consultation exercises in the health and social care field. Papers included are, Children's Green Paper "Every Child Matters": A framework for improving services for children and young people following the Laming Report on the tragic: death of Victoria Climbé. Delivering Race Equality: A Framework for Action: Draft framework to improve mental health services for black and minority ethnic communities, including their relatives and/or carers. Self-Harm: Short-term physical and psychological management and secondary prevention of intentional self-harm in primary and secondary care.

The author expresses his disappointment with the 2017 Green Paper on children and young people's mental health published by the British government, which excludes school-based counseling from the proposed mainstream provision. He reveals the burden brought by the plan on the teaching staff. The author mentions the effort of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) to improve access to counseling for children and young people.

The article reports on issues and events related to psychotherapy in Great Britain as of February 2006. A paper purporting antidepressants and electro-convulsive therapy as the best treatments for depression has been published by Klaus Ebmeir from Edinburgh University. Mental Health Foundation (MHF) and the University of Warwick has launched an online survey to determine the feelings, values and beliefs of therapists. Diet and mental health are closely linked according to MHF and Sustain.

The article reports on the reception hosted by the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) on October 15, 2013, where it launched a paper on the economic benefits of counselling and psychotherapy provision.

The article focuses on a debate regarding the issue of open access to research papers, for which there are several options for open access, such as gold, green and the hybrid model. It mentions that the research council United Kingdom has announced grant funding to aid open access to research.

A call for paper on synergy in councelling and psychotherapy research is presented.

The article calls for abstracts for papers and workshops by British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy (BACP) for its 19th Annual Research Conference, co-hosted by the Irish Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy, to be held in May 2013 in the Midlands.

The article reports policy and public affairs issues related to the British Association for Counseling and Psychotherapy (BACP). BACP has welcomed the consultation paper by the Welsh government on the Schools Standards and Organization (Wales) Bill. A new BACP-endorsed clinical guidance on quality standards and measures on "Service Users Experience in Adult Mental Health" has been published by National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE). BACP's work in Parliament is included.

The article discusses the NHS White Paper "Liberating the NHS: Transparency in Outcomes," which focused on the need for Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMS) in both physical and mental health services. PROMS have benefits for both clients and therapists, which include increasing the potential to focus therapy towards an individual's needs. PROM can make therapies more suitable to clients as there is a wide range of approaches in counseling and psychotherapy.

In this article, the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP) chair discusses policy decisions that will impact the profession. These include the coalition government's funding pledge to support the expansion of psychological therapies and the further change on the National Health Service (NHS) landscape with the publication of the White Paper "Equity and Excellence: Liberating the NHS." The lobbying efforts of BACP and its preparation for possible statutory regulation are also cited.

The article cites two polls of family doctors which revealed that majority of respondents do not feel able to take on the role of providing services for mentally ill patients as the British government's health White Paper proposed to strip primary care trusts of the power to commission mental health services and hand the budgets to general practitioners (GP).

The article discusses the role counselling as a main mental health care, which is recognized by patients and general practitioners. A review by the British Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy which yielded 3,193 papers and out of them, 26 different studies were included. The studies were classified into the domains including efficacy, practice based evidence, and economic issues. There were limited discoveries in the review due to lack of proof as to the long-term effects of counselling in primary care.

The article announces the 2009 election for the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy's (BACP) Board of Governors in Great Britain. Members are reminded to participate using the ballot paper sent with the May 2009 mailing. Deadline for the return of ballots to Atkinson Finch & Co. is on July 6, 2009.

This article focuses on public consultations that were addressed by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP). BACP applauded the work carried out by the British government to reduce discrimination and stigma in its response to the Welfare Reform green paper "No One Written Off: Reforming Welfare to Reward Responsibility." Other public consultations include the British Commission for Employment and Skills' consultation on National Occupational Standards and contraceptive services for socially disadvantaged young people.

The article reports that a new British Medical Association briefing paper warns that unregulated screening programmes by the private healthcare sector could be causing psychological harm. It calls on the Government to address the growing problem.

The article discusses the Tampon Tax Fund wherein initiatives to tackle sexual violence and social exclusion and improve women's mental health and wellbeing will benefit from grants from the Minister for Sports and Civil Society Tracey Crouch.