In this issue
Features
The wisdom of the body
Exploring the link between the nervous听system and a form of introspection that听centres on inner body awareness,听directing the client鈥檚 attention towards听their physiology.
Focusing and the person-centred way
Therapeutic focusing helps clients engage听in an immediate and physical way with听their experiencing.
Home is where the couch is
How does one manage feelings about听belonging and being connected in a country听not of one鈥檚 birth?
The internal supervisor
Is our internal supervisor the combined voice听of the best teacher and supervisor we have听ever had, internalised in our head?
Regulars
In practice
Kevin Chandler: A seat with a view
In the client's chair
Orla Murray: A possible connection
In training
Alex Erskine: Learning from personal therapy
From the chair
Dr Lynne Gabriel:听Regulation: a change of direction?
Questionnaire
Mark Aveline
Fiction
The Wednesday Group
Day in the life
Stuart Parsons
Dilemmas
Inappropriate self-disclosure?
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Editorial
The publication last week of the Government鈥檚听new mental health strategy 鈥� 鈥楴o health听without mental health鈥� 鈥� is encouraging听and represents a huge step forward in听mainstreaming mental health. But the听optimism created by the accompanying听announcement that the Government听would allocate another 拢400 million for听psychological therapies faded rapidly with听the subsequent sacking of Professor Dave听Richards as a National Advisor to IAPT for听suggesting that the money would have to be听found from efficiency saving in the NHS.
香港六合彩精准资料 had issued a press release welcoming听the new money and commitment to extending听the IAPT programme to older people, those听with long-term physical conditions and听children and adolescents but also warning听against a one-size-fits-all approach to therapy.听IAPT for children for example would require听them to be labelled with a mental health听problem such as anxiety or depression before听they could access help while the skill set of听staff who work effectively with older people听is different from that needed to work with听younger adults.
We also know only too well that the new听government strategy is being launched against听a background of serial closures of counselling听services, day centres and community services.听In our Day in the life feature this month we听talk to Stuart Parsons from Wigan Family听Welfare, a long-standing third sector听organisation. He says: 鈥業t鈥檚 almost apocalyptic听for the third sector, as well as the local听authority and statutory services. These are听desperate times and we all seem to be in the听same boat without a paddle.鈥�
In a letter to Therapy Today, Barry McInnes听writes: 鈥業t鈥檚 a tragedy that some well-established听and high-performing NHS听therapy services have been the casualties听of what feels at present like an expensive听leap of faith.鈥�
Sarah Browne
Editor