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A competence framework and training curriculum for delivering effective counselling and psychotherapy supervision practice and training

Good Practice in Action commonly asked questions resource on supervision. Last reviewed April 2024. PDF download

Thresholds, October 2020

Jamie Smith discuses how our own views or feelings on suicide can affect the ability to practise safely and competently when managing risk. Video resource.

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.

Discounted courses for BACP counsellors and psychotherapists informed by our Online and Phone Therapy (OPT) competency framework.

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.

In the human givens approach, the client’s imagination is used as a mental resource, says Denise Winn. Therapy Today, February 2024

In her blog, Editor Jeanine Connor explores important themes from the March issue of our BACP Children, Young People & Families journal. BACP journals blogs

Training: 'Large cohorts offer richer diversity in terms of age, class, race, ethnicity, experience and personality type. Students might range in age from 20s to 70s, with all that this implies in terms of life experience and outlook.' BACP Children, Young People and Families, December 2023