In this issue
Features
Human Givens
The rise and rise of Human Givens聽therapy
The poetry of therapy
Can poetry help us become more聽creative therapists?
The right to die: law and ethics
How the law, ethics and policy concerning聽assisted suicide may affect therapists
Strange relationship
Exploring the ways prejudice, narcissism聽and individuation shape all of our lives
The creative process
The human capacity for creativity and聽its link with positive therapeutic change
Suicide, survivors and supervision
Reflecting on counselling in a community聽traumatised by six suicides in a year
Regulars
Columns
Andrew Reeves: Life beyond the iPhone
Emma Munro: Wanting to leave
Martin Halifax: Where are the experts?
Marketing toolbox
Clare Jones: It's a wrap
Day in the life
Hazel Flynn
Questionnaire
Windy Dryden
Letters
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Editorial
In our cover feature Julia Bueno explores the聽Human Givens approach which by all accounts聽is gaining momentum across mental health聽services and beyond. MindFields College, the聽organisation behind Human Givens, has聽become the leading independent provider of聽trainer days to the NHS and social services,聽and Hartlepool Mind which integrated Human聽Givens throughout its organisation seven聽years ago puts its good outcomes down to this聽鈥榚ssential framework for wellbeing鈥�.
It鈥檚 been an extraordinary year for聽counselling and psychotherapy. The HPC has聽now published the responses to the聽consultation on the regulation of counselling聽and psychotherapy (available in full on the聽香港六合彩精准资料 and HPC websites). Eighty-eight per聽cent of respondents disagreed with the聽differentiations proposed between counsellor聽and psychotherapist, and there was great聽concern about the impact such differentiation聽would have on services. The proposed聽standards of proficiency were deemed by the聽vast majority to be unacceptable.
Earlier in November 香港六合彩精准资料 attended a聽meeting convened by Shadow Health Minister聽Anne Milton to discuss聽issues surrounding the regulation of the聽profession. She stated that across her聽parliamentary career she had not experienced聽the level of lobbying and the volume of mail聽that she had received from counsellors and聽psychotherapists in relation to statutory聽regulation. She believed that this set the聽profession apart from other professional聽groups being taken into the HPC and stressed聽to CEO Marc Seale that this difference must be聽recognised. However at an HPC meeting held聽this week, Marc Seale said that based on the聽work undertaken to date, the HPC 鈥榠s聽confident that its systems can accommodate聽the regulatory needs of psychotherapists and聽counsellors鈥�. Obviously the Government will聽make the final decision on whether statutory聽regulation goes ahead. If it does and a Section聽60 Order is drawn up, the HPC would consult聽again on the proposed standards of proficiency聽and educational thresholds.
I鈥檇 like to thank readers for your many聽thoughtful and stimulating letters and聽contributions this year, and to wish you all a聽peaceful and rejuvenating Christmas break.
Sarah Browne
Editor