BACP Therapy Today May 2024

" Billie Dunlevy was interviewed by Sky News about the use of AI chatbots to help people overcome grief. This led to widespread coverage on lots of regional news sites and local radio stations including BBC Essex, Planet Radio and Black Country Radio. Cate Campbell spoke to Cosmopolitan and Yahoo! Style UK about why some couples use pet names for each other. Stefan Walters # commented in a Guardian article about people’s different experiences of therapy. " Georgina Sturmer spoke to The Independent about the Government’s launch of baby loss certificates. Georgina’s comments also featured on the HuffPost and Aol websites. Dee Johnson # spoke to Pick Me Up! magazine about the mental health benefits of word puzzle games like Wordle. Our involvement in the Fund the Hubs campaign group was highlighted on lots of online news websites discussing the extra Government funding announcement, including London Reviews , WiredGov , Children & Young People Now and Social Work Today . " Kemi Omijeh and Heidi Soholt # featured in a GoodtoKnow article giving parents advice on how to encourage children to open up about their emotions. GoodtoKnow also featured Amanda Macdonald and Jenny Warwick in an article about building resilience in children, and Rachel Vora and Pete English # on conversation starters for teenagers. Pick Me Up! magazine featured Amanda Macdonald , Natasha Page and " Janey Morrissey as agony aunts in its weekly ‘Dilemmas’ page. Amanda also featured in two Chat magazine monthly specials. Hansa Pankhania # spoke to Metro about how to manage your wellbeing. This was also reported by UK Press24 . Spreading the word Promoting our members and our profession through the media

We believe that research is a vital factor in shaping mental health policies and practices and we advocate for evidence-based policy recommendations. As part of our commitment to supporting the growth of research and evidence for our profession, we publish Counselling and Psychotherapy Research . This is an international peer-reviewed journal dedicated to linking research with practice in counselling and psychotherapy. It aims to promote high-quality, ethical research that influences, informs and develops counselling and psychotherapy practice. Recent articles have covered: ! Therapeutic perspectives on cyberbullying ! Clients’ experiences of online therapy in the early days of the pandemic ! The relationship between secondary traumatic stress, professional identity and career factors in counsellors ! The perceived impact of counselling training on students’ personal relationships. Access to the journal archive is free for BACP members via the Wiley online library. Find out more and read all editions, including the latest, at www.bacp.co.uk/bacp-journals/ counselling-and-psychotherapy-research-journal Check out the Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal

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