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Ahead of the General Election on 8 June 2017, We Need To Talk, a coalition of 20 mental health charities, professional organisations, Royal Colleges and service users has issued an urgent plea for more access to psychological therapies on the NHS.

Association of Child Psychotherapists (ACP), British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¾«×¼×ÊÁÏ), British Psychoanalytic Council (BPC) and UK Council for Psychotherapy (UKCP) have released the initial findings of a joint survey of over 3,000 NHS counsellors, psychotherapists and psychoanalysts.

Monday 24 July is Samaritan’s Awareness Day, a day which provides all of us with the chance to talk about suicide – still a taboo subject – and to shake off some common misconceptions.

An IPPR report into students and mental health states that rising prevalence of mental health issues means university counselling services are coming under even more strain.

Most people have no idea about the numbers of people who die by suicide every year in the UK, a survey for World Suicide Prevention Day has revealed today.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¾«×¼×ÊÁÏ is concerned by findings in the Education Policy Institute (EPI) report which shows that over a quarter of children referred to specialist mental health services were not accepted into those services.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¾«×¼×ÊÁÏ members working within University and College Counselling Services can from today take advantage of the updated University and College Counselling Sector Resource.

According to the 2016/17 Childline annual review, Not Alone Anymore, 22,456 counselling sessions were delivered to young people dealing with thoughts of ending their own lives - a rise of 15% compared to the previous year.

Ïã¸ÛÁùºÏ²Ê¾«×¼×ÊÁÏ research supports a refocus of our research efforts from looking at treatment difference to other factors such as therapist effects.

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