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Naomi Caine, Editor, Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal
Highlights
About Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal
Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal aims to keep healthcare practitioners up to date with topical and therapeutic developments in the sector, providing a forum for communication and learning. Insightful and informed features from practitioners working in the field bring up-to-the-minute thinking, opinion and best practice, alongside relevant news, research and training.
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Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal is published in January, April, July and October.
If you're a member of BACP Healthcare division, you'll receive a printed copy of the journal and access to the online archive as part of your divisional membership fee.
If you're a BACP member, you can get free access to the online version of the journal and the archive.
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If you're not a BACP member, you can subscribe to the journal by clicking on the log in to purchase link at the top of the page and creating an account. You'll receive a printed copy and access to the online archive.
Previous issues
Members and subscribers can access online articles and pdfs of previous issues going back to 2011 from the Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal archive.
You can also search for articles using the articles and guidance search in the top menu bar.
Contribute
If you would like to submit an article to Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy journal, please contact the editor, Naomi Caine, at hcpj.editorial@bacp.co.uk. You might also want to look at the Author's guidelines.
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Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal is read by counsellors and psychotherapists of all modalities working in healthcare, whether for an NHS service or a third sector organisation funded by the NHS.
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Open articles
Reflections of a cancer therapist
Open article: For more than 20 years, Julia Cole has supported people who have been diagnosed with breast cancer. Here, she considers the impact of her work. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2021
Working with a psychiatric diagnosis
Open article: It’s important for therapists to consider their own views about psychiatric diagnosis, in order to offer clients a safe space to explore its subjective meanings, writes Rachel Freeth. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, July 2021
The power of the few
Open article: Clients can achieve positive change in relatively few sessions, as long as the therapist adopts the right mindset and assumptions. John Wheeler looks at the ideas behind solution-focused practice. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2021