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Latest news
Committee calls for improved access to school-based counselling in Wales
BACP responds to National Assembly for Wales Children, Young People and Education Committee report
New report on older people's experiences of partner bereavement
Alarming variations in older people’s experiences following the death of a partner have been highlighted in a new report by the charity Independent Age
Update on the NICE depression in adults guidelines
Further delays to the publication of the NICE guidance
Ethical Framework review
New Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions to be implemented from 1 July 2018
A framework for counselling and psychotherapy
BACP, BPC and UKCP are jointly working on a groundbreaking project to set out the training requirements and practice standards for counselling and psychotherapy.
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Forthcoming events
BACP Annual Research Conference 2018
Online Webcast: Research Conference 2018
Working with suicide in universities and colleges conference
From our journals
A sudden death
Free article: Stephen Regel considers how an employer can best support its staff in the aftermath of a traumatic bereavement. BACP Workplace, April 2018
The ABCD of working with diversity: a new model
Free article: Encountering clients who we perceive as ‘different’ from us can often bring up a range of difficult feelings. Katharine Collins, shares her own developed model for working with diversity. Coaching Today, April 2018
Working for free
Free article: Sally Brown captures views from both sides of the argument about whether qualified counsellors should work unpaid. Therapy Today, April 2018
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Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions
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Resources to inform your practice, help you undertake research and update you on our research activities
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