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As we take stock of the events of 2020, Nicola Banning talks to Karen Carberry about her new book on black community mental health and her work with EAPs to address the issues of race, racism and blind spots in the counselling profession. BACP Workplace, October 2020

Information and support for members and clients based on recent complaints. A series of resources looking at the types of complaints received around different topics and their implications for practice.

Nostalgia suggests a yearning for an idealised past that never existed. David Morgan explains how nostalgia can function on both a political and a personal level, often to avoid the harsh reality of the present. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, October 2020

'What I have found myself reflecting on recently is how supervisors, used to working with counsellors, can best adapt our skills to support those who fall outside of our usual services'. Regular column from Elizabeth Holt. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023

Shared experience: The impact of the pandemic on therapy. Plus... Counselling older people... The future of AI... Setting out in private practice

In a co-authored article by members of the Parent Carer Trauma Working Group, Joanna Griffin, Ellie Finch, Megan Yakeley, Naomi Bonger and Poppy Villierezz draw on their combined personal, clinical and academic experience to raise awareness of trauma in SEND parent carers. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

Counselling: Too much choice 'In the counselling room, when I see a child who is not rushing to pick up an activity, or one that seems unable to make a decision, I take a step back and ask, ‘What is going on for this child?'. BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023

Our new report calls for Governments across the UK to act now as mental health of nation is 'on a knife edge'

BACP welcomes the Education and Health and Social Care Committees' damning response to the Government's green paper on Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision

We welcome the universities minister’s call for vice-chancellors to prioritise student mental health and take sustained and serious leadership on the issue