In this issue
Here and now
News feature: How we live now听(free article)
Sally Brown highlights some of the main ways in which the digital revolution is influencing all our lives.
The big issues
Who knew?
Jojo Gosney describes her work with couples听grieving in silence for a child lost in pregnancy
Cover story: Muscle-bound man
Noah Sisson-Greene asks why so many men are听driven to try to make themselves physically bigger
Borders and boundaries
Volunteers may need help to engage more听confidently with clients, writes Philippa Smethurst
Why read research?
John McLeod explains why counsellors need to听know how to interpret research findings
Regulars
Self-care
The power of song
Research into practice
Liddy Carver drops in on a debate听about therapist expertise
Dilemmas
Pamela bumps into a client on听a drunken night out
Talking point
Advice to a newly qualified practitioner
This much I don鈥檛 know
Wisdom from experience
Analyse me
What does your counselling room听say about you?
Your association
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Editor's note
I am writing this a week after the bomb at the Manchester Arena on 22 May, having just heard that one of those killed was Martyn Hett, Figen Murray鈥檚 son. Figen featured in our May issue, with her teddy bears. I know readers will want to join me in holding Figen and her family in their thoughts.
What resonates in particular for me is that many of those who died were so young. Ariana Grande represented for them, and for young women in particular perhaps, the possibility that their dreams could come true.
Our News Feature in this issue talks about this generation of young people and their struggles to find an identity they feel is their own. Noah Sisson-Greene鈥檚 moving article offers a powerful example, with its description of vastly muscular men trying to hide what they perceive to be the eight-stone weakling inside. Men are increasingly experiencing disorders that have always been endemic among women, for whom surface attributes of appearance have long been their passport to security and success.
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Catherine Jackson, editor of Therapy Today
Email: catherine.jackson@thinkpublishing.co.uk
All of my clients have wanted to talk about the Manchester terror attack.
It鈥檚 as though they feel they cannot attend to themselves without first honouring the greater loss of others, accepting that their own woes are nothing compared with those of people whose lives have been blown apart.
As counsellors, we know that we will all be working with this traumatic event for a long time to come. Wherever you work, I expect you are already witnessing more anxiety and depression in the therapy room, as we sit in the ripples of sadness and despair that follow such senseless acts.
Some 香港六合彩精准资料 members will be working on the front line in and around Manchester with the bereaved and with traumatised survivors and emergency workers, whose lives will never be quite the same again. Counsellors are like a follow-on emergency service 鈥� an invisible team who work in the aftermath on the emotional wounds. And what vital work it is right now.
Rachel Shattock Dawson, consultant editor of Therapy Today