News archive 2024 News Published 5 Dec 2024 Read our recent press releases, statements, campaigns and news for members.
The big issue: Time to dump the ‘dustbin diagnosis’? Journals Published 22 Nov 2024 Open article: Ellie Broughton asks whether a borderline personality disorder diagnosis prevents clients and especially women from getting the help they really need. Therapy Today, December 2024/January 2025.
Keeping track of clients’ progress in private practice Research Published 7 Sep 2018 Updated 2 Sep 2025 The Advancing Practice through Tracking (AdaPT) project looked at the use of an online platform to record routine outcome measurements in private practice between 2018 and 2021.
Working in the NHS: the state of children’s services Research Published 1 Jan 2017 Updated 1 Oct 2019 Report of research conducted by BACP, the Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), the British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and the UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP). PDF download.
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Why does the media get therapy so wrong? Journals Published 20 Feb 2023 And does it deter clients from seeking help? asks Sasha Bates. Therapy Today, March 2023
Book review Featuring ' Critical Reflection, Spirituality and Professional Practice' Cheryl Hunt. Thresholds, April 2024
Reasons to be cheerful Journals Published 31 Aug 2023 Jennifer Pitt reflects on how education and counselling can sit comfortably together in an emotionally healthy secondary school. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023
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Dilemma: Is my elderly client a safeguarding risk because of her children's need to protect her? Journals Published 1 Nov 2023 Our Ethics team and Therapy Today readers consider this month’s dilemma. Therapy Today, November 2023