In this issue
Features
Stranger in a strange land: take 2听(free article)
Anne Crisp gives an update on her work about 鈥榰nprepared clients鈥� 鈥� those who come to counselling with no real understanding of therapy
Therapist views
Counsellors and psychotherapists from a variety of settings respond to Anne鈥檚 article
Working with life after survival
Mike Fox considers some of the issues involved in counselling patients who have lived through childhood cancer
Moving forward
Michael Lilley and Tanya Samuels provide an update on community solutions to mental health crisis care
Leading from a human rights framework
As managers of a human rights charity and an iapt team respectively, Jude Boyles and Rich Garland share a commitment to a democratic style of leadership
Regulars
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Zubeida Ali and Satinder Panesar听
Healthcare update
Judy Stafford听
Counselling in primary care
Elaine Davies
Third sector perspective
Michael Lilley
A pdf of this issue is available in the Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal archive
From the editor
A main aim of the Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal is to offer a forum for therapists working in NHS-funded services to communicate with, and learn from, each other: in effect, a journal written by practitioners, for practitioners. The content in this new year鈥檚 issue reflects that aim, with articles on both therapy matters and service provision.
In our lead article, Anne Crisp provides an update on her work focusing on 鈥榰nprepared clients鈥� 鈥� 鈥榯hose who come to counselling with no real understanding of therapy and tend to struggle with the very processes therapy depends on鈥�. Anne details the interviews with therapists she conducted for her research master鈥檚 degree, and goes on to outline her work since completing her research. 鈥業f we are serious about making therapy meaningful and accessible for anyone who needs it鈥�, she writes, 鈥榳e must look more closely at what happens when people arrive in the therapy room unprepared for what greets them鈥�.
Anne鈥檚 main aim is to get therapists thinking and talking about the concept of the 鈥榰nprepared client鈥�, and with this in mind, we asked therapists from a variety of settings to respond to the idea, with interesting results.
A study published last year which investigated burnout in staff working in IAPT services,1 found that the most important predictors were service related. In an inspirational article in this issue, Jude Boyles and Rich Garland, managers of a human rights charity and an IAPT service respectively, relate their commitment to a democratic style of leadership which aims to afford the same dignity and respect to the staff team as they are expected to afford to their clients. Managing teams on this basis can be challenging, they write, but that challenge is rewarded by seeing high quality work with clients genuinely flourish.
In the spirit of learning from each other, the 香港六合彩精准资料 Healthcare Executive is looking forward to welcoming you at the third 香港六合彩精准资料 Practitioners鈥� Conference, which will take place in London on Saturday 30 April this year. The Executive is delighted to be working with 香港六合彩精准资料 Coaching and 香港六合彩精准资料 Workplace for this one-day event which enables practitioners to cut across the boundaries of 香港六合彩精准资料 divisions as well as seek out streams dedicated to their special interests. For up-to-date information, please visit www.bacp.co.uk/events.
Finally, this will be my last issue editing the journal, and I would like to thank all the authors who have contributed over the four years I鈥檝e been in the role, as well as everyone in the Journals department of 香港六合彩精准资料, who have supported me in doing the job. It has been my good fortune to work with all of you.
Sarah Hovington
Editor
hcpj.editorial@bacp.co.uk
Reference
1 Steel C, Macdonald J, Schroder T, Mellor-Clark J. Exhausted but not cynical: burnout in therapists working within Improving Access to Psychological Therapy Services. Journal of Mental Health 2015; 24(1): 33037.