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The impossible dilemma: When seeking safety is dangerous. Plus: Different, not deficient // Killing the Buddha // Reasons to be cheerful // The only child in therapy

Good Practice in Action legal resource covering working with children and young people. Last reviewed July 2025. PDF download

Open article: Editor Jeanine Connor speaks to Chair of the Centre for Young Lives Anne Longfield about the ways she thinks society is failing young people and her ambitions to transform their lives. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2024.

Good Practice in Action legal resource on working with children and young people. Last reviewed November 2024. PDF download

Young lives, big ambitions: All kinds of minds: Exploring flavours of neurodiversity, and the power of the language we use to describe them. Plus: All kinds of minds: Are you culturally competent? // Deeping it // Unmothered // Therapeutic integration.

Our call for action on school counselling, in a year where a General Election is expected

‘That’s so gay!’: Why does LGBT bullying happen and what can we do to make our counselling spaces safe, LGBT+ inclusive environments? // Throw of the dice // Gloriously unready // More doing, less being // Under the eyes of a thousand stars...

Funded counselling provision will be part of this offer

Poster presentation by Dr Melody Cranbourne-Rosser

While welcoming 'Transforming children and young people’s mental health provision: a green paper', BACP, BPC and UKCP raise serious concerns about its ambition and its ability to deliver the support needed for our children and young people.