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Carolyn Mumby reviews this guide to developing ethical maturity in practice. Coaching Today, January 2024

Our ethics team responds to members' ethical dilemmas in our regular Therapy Today column

Coaching comes of age: Are coach-therapists leading us towards a bright new world?.. plus How do we manage professional self-doubt?.. Mick Cooper argues that therapists are changing the world... Ethical responses when a client reveals sex addiction... Is phone counselling more intimate?

An accredited progression course demonstrates meeting high professional standards aligned to the SCoPEd framework competences and BACP’s course accreditation criteria.

Paula Hall discusses the ethical choices for counsellors when an established client discloses a compulsive sexual behaviour disorder. Therapy Today, March 2023

Letesia Gibson asks: at a time of trauma and crisis, how should ethical leaders respond? BACP Workplace, January 2024

The Scope of Practice and Education (SCoPEd) framework is a ground-breaking shared standards framework, which sets out the core training, practice and competence requirements for counsellors and psychotherapists working with adults.

‘Another way of connecting with practitioners is by joining BACP’s Communities of Practice, an ethical online community for sharing knowledge among diverse practitioners, from beginners to experts, which every member has access to.’ BACP Workplace, January 2024

Open article: We have an ethical responsibility to address systemic prejudice and discrimination, including monoracism, wherever it appears, advocates Mary-Claire Wilson. Private Practice, September 2025.

Are you GSRD competent? Ethical working with gender, sexual and relationship diversity... plus... Understanding the impact of minority stress... Relationship anarchy in the therapy room... Myth-busting the risks of affirmative care... When emotional disturbance presents as physical illness.