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Online resources exploring the reasons why young people self-harm and ways to support them. CPD hub+.

Featuring 'The COVID Trail: psychodynamic explorations', Halina Brunning and Olya Khaleelee; 'The CBT Companion: CBT-based models and worksheets for practitioners and clients', Benjamin E Cook; 'Autistic Phenomena and Unrepresented States: explorations in the emergence of self', Howard B Levine and Jani SantamarÍa; 'Hoarding Disorder: a comprehensive clinical guide', Carolyn I Rodriguez and Randy O Frost; 'Online Counselling: an essential guide', Sarah Worley-James and 'Living with Extreme Intelligence: developing essential communication skills', Sonja Falck. Therapy Today, September 2023

Leaving home and starting a new life, often in a new city, can be very exciting. But it can also be daunting adjusting to a new environment and making new friends.

Rebecca Grace, Assistant Registrar for BACP, addresses therapy complaints, confidentiality, competence, boundaries and power imbalances. BACP learning from practice blogs

Open article: Psychosis typically emerges for the first time in young adulthood. Dr George Salaminios explores the importance of early intervention in college and university counselling and the rationale for therapeutically targeting dysfunctions in mentalizing. BACP University and College Counselling, March 2026.

Our member Baljit Kamal explains what solution-focused brief therapy is and what to expect from it

How to identify behaviours that are considered unacceptable, report inappropriate contact and get advice and support.

We support new blueprint to help Government deliver mental health hubs in the community for children and young people

Our member Susie Masterson explains what the existential approach is and how existential therapy can help