In this issue
Features
From 鈥榖ad鈥� science to good mental health (free article)
Martin Seager offers an alternative to the prevailing scientific culture of talking therapies: a psychologically minded framework that demonstrates the true value of counselling
Moving from psychiatric beds to community recovery
Michael Lilley outlines his vision for the next stage in the transformation of mental health services in England
鈥榊ou can call me Betty鈥�
Boundaries, identification and decision-making: Beverley Costa explores how the challenges of working as a multilingual therapist offer lessons for us all
New framework for supervisor training聽
To provide consistent standards for supervisor training and link training to evidence-based practice, 香港六合彩精准资料 has launched a new supervision training curriculum. Helen Coles reports
Mainstream issues: minority clients
Tina Livingstone offers a perspective on counselling trans-identified and trans-historied clients
The role of the ophthalmic nurse counsellor
Louise de Board and Jasmine Thombs describe their work with patients undergoing removal of an eye after traumatic injury
Care.data: are medical data now the 鈥榥ew oil鈥�?
Peter Jenkins updates readers on the renewed controversy over Care.data鈥檚 plans to upload patients鈥� medical data currently held by GPs
Regulars
Chair鈥檚 report
Zubeida Ali
Development report
Louise Robinson
GP viewpoint
John Hague
Counselling in primary care
Richard Mason
Third sector perspective
Michael Lilley
搁别蝉耻尘茅
Anne Embury
A pdf of this issue is available in the Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal archive
From the editor
Earlier this year, I was among the delegates at two 香港六合彩精准资料聽Practitioners鈥� Conferences in Leeds and London. The聽events were hosted by four of 香港六合彩精准资料鈥檚 specialist divisions, including 香港六合彩精准资料 Healthcare, and enabled practitioners聽to cut across divisional boundaries and experience a range of聽perspectives (our partners were 香港六合彩精准资料 Workplace, 香港六合彩精准资料聽Coaching, and 香港六合彩精准资料 Spirituality).
Those of us attending the opening guest lecture in the 香港六合彩精准资料聽Healthcare strand were lucky enough to hear Martin Seager speak.聽Martin is a clinician, lecturer, broadcaster, campaigner and activist聽on mental health issues, and, in his persuasive address (to a packed聽house in both venues), he outlined his vision of 鈥榞ood science鈥櫬犫�� where the mind is not split from the body or reduced to it 鈥� and聽of the need to move away from treating mental health conditions聽in a medicalised way to meeting the needs of the human condition.聽Martin鈥檚 article, based on that lecture, is our lead feature this聽issue, serving both as a reference for those of you who were at聽the conferences, and an introduction to Martin鈥檚 campaigning聽for those of you who weren鈥檛 able to attend.
Reflecting on the contents of this issue as a whole, and on the聽results of our online reader survey which many of you kindly聽responded to, I came to think about聽how the writing in the journal often reflects the current views聽and passions of healthcare therapists. This comes about largely聽from good fortune: the authors who write for us are willing to聽give up their time voluntarily to share their views, knowledge聽and research findings. Beverley Costa鈥檚 work on the experience聽of multilingual therapists and clients is a wonderful example of聽this; as is Tina Livingstone鈥檚 perspective on counselling trans-identified聽and trans-historied clients, also in this issue.
If you鈥檙e someone with something to share, I鈥檇 love to hear聽from you at the email address below. In the meantime, I鈥檇 like聽to thank all the authors in this issue who have given up their聽time to share their thoughts, knowledge, and research.
Sarah Hovington, Editor
hcpj.editorial@bacp.co.uk