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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

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

Featuring 'When Words Are Not Enough: creative responses to grief', Jane Harris and Jimmy Edmonds; 'Lessons in Psychoanalysis: psychopathology and clinical psychoanalysis for trainee analysts, Franco De Masi; Art Psychotherapy and Innovation: new territories, techniques and technologies, Helen Jury and Ali Coles (eds); Working on the Frontline of Mental Health: a CBT therapist’s casebook, Steve Sheward; The Humanity Test: disability, therapy and society, John Barton and Transcend: the new science of self-actualization, Scott Barry Kaufman. Therapy Today, May 2023

Artistic and therapeutic practice are twinned in important ways, sharing sensibilities and techniques aimed at making use of what Winnicott called the ‘potential space’, required for human development. For Dominic McLoughlin, creativity is at the heart of the work, allowing for an emphasis on difference, and active meaning-making between the therapeutic couple. University and College Counselling, March 2023

Open article: Having received a diagnosis of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD), coach, trainer and supervisor Nishe Patel talks to Diane Parker about the impact her diagnosis is having on her life and work, exploring the challenges as well as the gifts it presents. Coaching Today, April 2023

'Anyone that describes their counselling training as easy is most likely lying. One of my best friends who I met on my training course and I used to describe the experience as the best and worst years of your life – the sentiment is still true to this today.' A conversation with Safaa Ramadan. University and College Counselling, March 2024

In The Gift of Sensitivity – The extraordinary power of emotional engagement in life and work, author and advocate for human emotional potential, Elena Amber offers new perspectives on what it means to be a human in an age of AI. She talks to Nicola Banning about her research, how she came to write her book, and why the world needs our hidden gifts of sensitivity more than ever. BACP Workplace, April 2024.