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Supplementary resources, based on current research and evidence, to help you implement the Ethical Framework in your practice. Include commonly asked questions, fact sheets, legal resources and research overviews.

Open article: Black practitioners on progress, challenges, barriers and hope. Therapy Today, October 2025.

Phone therapy is intimate, accessible and offers the therapeutic asset of visual anonymity, says Sarah Hart. Therapy Today, March 2023

Vicky Reynal describes how a psychodynamic approach helped a client understand his reluctance to pay off his student debt. Therapy Today, May 2024

BACP Healthcare news and resources. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2023.

Open article: Gill Harvey shares the findings from her research on reframing identity after developmental spiritual abuse and religious trauma. Thresholds, July 2023

Information about BACP's position on online teaching delivery and remote supervised placement hours.

The Ethical Framework sets out the expected ethical principles, values and good practice standards for BACP members. All members commit to complying with the Ethical Framework as part of their terms and conditions of membership..

Featuring 'Mothering Alone', M K O’Neil; 'Learning from Action', ed RD Hinshelwood and L Mingarelli; 'Counselling Partners and Relatives of Individuals Who Have Sexually Offended', A Smith; 'Saving Freud', A Nagorski; 'Outsight', The Midlands Psychology Group and 'Standards and Ethics for Counselling in Action', A Reeves and T Bond. Therapy Today, April 2023

'The psychological basis of my work is informed by a diverse repertoire of theoretical study and research'. Coaching Today, October 2023