Holding hope and complexity: Working with looked-after children Ailsa Smith Thompson explores Holding Hope: Therapy with Looked-After Children. BACP member blogs.
BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2023 Journals Published 31 Aug 2023 The impossible dilemma: When seeking safety is dangerous. Plus: Different, not deficient // Killing the Buddha // Reasons to be cheerful // The only child in therapy
Yours faithfully: Age, time and everything in between Journals Published 6 Jan 2023 'I ask them questions such as, what is it like for you to have a counsellor of a similar/different age to you?' Regular column by Manaal Mulla. Thresholds, January 2023
Government must act now to avoid children and young people's mental health crisis News Published 4 Feb 2025 We support mental health charities' research based call for urgent Government action on children and young people’s mental health services
Stuck in a rut? Nine steps to break free and gain control this new year News Published 2 Jan 2025 Our members share how we can find ourselves stuck and why entering a new year is the perfect time to break the cycle.
BACP Register of Counsellors and Psychotherapists The BACP Register is a public record of therapists who meet our standards for registration
Influencing decision makers We work with with politicians and decision makers from all four nations to help them understand the positive changes that counselling can make to people's lives.
NHS budget increase must bolster counselling and psychotherapy services News Published 11 Jun 2025 Our response to Government’s Comprehensive Spending Review
Types of therapy About therapy An A-Z list of the different approaches, modalities or ways of working within counselling and psychotherapy.
Counselling and psychological therapy for children with long-term medical conditions (LTCs) Research Published 30 Apr 2015 Updated 1 Oct 2019 A narrative review summarising the current literature on psychological therapy for children with LTCs, focusing on multiple LTCs, asthma, diabetes, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS). PDF download.