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This UK wide, expert by experience group is made up of practitioners from across the four nations who are interested in becoming more involved in our children, young people and families policy and campaign work.

NHS workers: how therapy can help. Plus... Stroke patients: Working with the psychological effects of stroke... Psychiatric ward: What it’s like to be admitted, by a former patient... Food stories: Why we need to explore our experience of eating.

What does research tell us about the experience of remote counselling for both clients and therapists – and what is still unknown? Jeannette Roddy, Naomi Moller, Wayne Full and Andreas Vossler share their findings. Therapy Today, May 2024

Sarah Haywood shares the ways that navigating her own path through autism assessment and formal recognition helped to challenge her misapprehensions and inaccurate beliefs. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

Mary Alexander uses poetry to describe the way she applies counselling skills in her role supporting young people in secondary school. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

One at a time: Getting to the other side. Plus... One-at-a-time: A counsellor's perspective... A time of crisis? Research from Scotland... Neurodiversity: A call for action

'I have developed a great deal of loyalty to the service; we do a good job in what at times is a challenging environment'. University and College Counselling, May 2023

The Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd) framework is a ground-breaking shared standards framework, which sets out the core training, practice and competence requirements for counsellors and psychotherapists working with adults.

For registered members who have completed a BACP accredited core training course aligned to column C of the SCoPEd framework or a BACP accredited or approved column C progression training.

Coaching comes of age: Are coach-therapists leading us towards a bright new world?.. plus How do we manage professional self-doubt?.. Mick Cooper argues that therapists are changing the world... Ethical responses when a client reveals sex addiction... Is phone counselling more intimate?