The sage handbook of counselling and psychotherapy

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The SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy

The SAGE Handbook of Counselling and Psychotherapy

4th edition

Edited by

Colin FelthamTerry HanleyLaura Anne Winter

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List of Figures and Tables

About the Editors and Contributors

Preface to the Fourth Edition

Acknowledgements

PART I COUNSELLING AND PSYCHOTHERAPY IN

CONTEXT

1.1 What are counselling and psychotherapy?

1.2 What do people come to counselling and psychotherapy for?1.3 What are the training routes in counselling and psychotherapy?1.4 Where do counsellors and psychotherapists work?

PART II SOCIO-CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES

2.1 Introducing socio-cultural perspectives: social justice and

2.7 Religion and spirituality

2.8 Race, culture and ethnicity

PART III THERAPEUTIC SKILLS AND CLINICAL PRACTICE

3.1 Introducing therapeutic skills and clinical practice: the ‘basics’

PART IV PROFESSIONAL ISSUES

4.1 Introducing professional issues: therapeutic skills ‘beyondtherapy’

4.2 Personal and Professional development

4.3 Clinical supervision

4.4 Leadership

4.5 Confidentiality, note taking and record keeping

4.6 Ethical codes and guidance

4.7 Responding to complaints

4.8 Client experiences

4.9 Therapy and the law

4.10 Mental health law

4.11 Fundamentals of research

PART V THEORY AND APPROACHES

5.1 Introducing theory and approaches: singular models, combinedapproaches and alternative perspectives

5.2 Adlerian therapy

5.3 Jungian analytical psychology

5.4 Attachment-based psychoanalytic psychotherapy

5.11 Compassion focused therapy

5.12 Dialectical behaviour therapy

5.13 Eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR)5.14 Mindfulness based cognitive therapy

5.15 Rational emotive behaviour therapy

5.25 Personal construct counselling and psychotherapy

5.26 Solution-focused brief therapy

Integrative and Eclectic Approaches

5.27 Cognitive analytic therapy

5.35 Critical approaches to psychotherapy and counselling

PART VI CLIENT PRESENTING PROBLEMS

6.1 Introducing client presenting problems: a critical approach todiagnosis and ‘psychopathology’

6.2 Alcohol problems

6.3 Anxiety and panic

6.4 Bereavement

6.5 Depression

6.6 Counselling for drug-related problems

6.7 Working with survivors of domestic violence

6.8 Eating disorders

6.9 HIV/AIDS

6.10 Low self-esteem

6.11 Medically unexplained symptoms (MUS)

6.12 Obsessive compulsive disorder

6.13 Personality disorders

6.14 Phobias

6.15 Post-traumatic stress disorder

6.16 Sexual violence: rape and sexual assault

6.17 The psychoses

6.18 Relationship and sex problems

6.19 Sexual abuse in childhood

6.20 Managing stress

6.21 Suicide and self-harm

PART VII THERAPEUTIC SPECIALISMS

7.1 Introducing therapeutic specialisms: continuing personal andprofessional development

Diversity and Difference in Therapy

7.2 Counselling people labelled with Asperger Syndrome

7.3 Working with disability

7.4 Feminist therapy

7.5 Gender, sexuality and relationship diversity therapy

7.6 Working with homeless people

7.7 Working with interpreters

7.8 Working with refugees

Therapy Settings

7.9 Coaching

7.10 Working in further and higher education

7.11 Working with the media

7.12 Working with neuroscience and neuropsychology

7.18 Counselling young people

7.19 Counselling older people

7.24 Electronically delivered text therapies

7.25 Wider uses of technology in therapy

Index

List of Figures and Tables

Figures

An abbreviated assessment form at Metanoia Counselling and

Psychotherapy Service (MCPS) 75

The Plan, Do, Study, Act cycle for measures 92

Some suggested dos and don’ts of using measures 93

Common measures 93

General time limits for legal matters 133

Tips on consulting codes and guidelines 139

Therapy and the law web resources 159

The Circle of Security™ 190

Core processes in acceptance and commitment therapy 221

Three system model 230

Compassion Circles: the key attributes of compassion (inner circle) andthe skills used to develop them (outer circle) 232

An example of dysfunctional reciprocal roles and procedures 321

Example of a partial SDR 323

Natalie’s structural profile 336

Natalie’s desired structural profile 337

Potential interaction of counsellor challenge and client realisation ofimmediate, short-term and longer-term therapeutic goals within the

skilled helper model 353

Structural diagram of a personality 357

The cycle of change 382

Cognitive model of panic disorder 388

Cognitive model of generalised anxiety disorder 389

The interacting core grief reactions and coping responses in the RRLmodel and the characteristics of the model reflected in the AAG scale396

Levels of bereavement need associated with AAG vulnerability indicatorscores and the linked intervention 397

Therapeutic goals set within the framework of the RRL model 398

A simple guide to understanding eating disorder categorisation 422

Possible effects of negative thinking accompanying low self-esteem 434Possible effects of positive thinking 435

Example of the downward arrow technique 438

A behavioural model of OCD 447

BACP professional values 568

A values-based approach to practice 568

Examples of values 569

An example of values and a personal mission statement 570Yogic symbol of the heart 571

The proactive counselling process 600

The hot cross bun model for CBT 604

Timeline 605

Mapping of family and professional systems 613

Figure of eight pattern of interaction 627

Key historical developments 4

Sources of ethical guidance 138

Responding to the notification that a complaint or concern has beenreceived by a professional body 146

How to give evidence 147

The adjudicators’ decision-making process 147

ECHR articles 163

Five functions of dialectical behaviour therapy 237

John’s full modality profile (or BASIC ID chart) 334

Frequently used techniques in multimodal therapy and training 335Types of psychopharmacological treatment 365

‘Normalizers’ by condition 365

Transmitters, drugs affecting them, their mode of action on the

transmitter, and side effects particularly relevant to participation inpsychotherapy 366

Criteria for a panic attack 386

Diagnostic features of generalised anxiety disorder 386

Applying the narrative process to the Range of Response to Loss model399

Hannah’s combined quantitative and qualitative responses to the AAGscale 400

Thinking like an optimist 438

Symptoms, syndromes and diagnoses that may be medically

unexplained 440

Examples of obsessional thoughts and linked behaviours 446

Epidemiological data for phobias 459

Factors associated with higher risk 500

Summary of differences for therapists between individual and grouptherapy 617

Effective group therapy treatments 619

Yalom’s curative factors 620

About the Editors and Contributors

Colin Feltham

is Emeritus Professor of Critical Counselling Studies, Sheffield HallamUniversity He teaches counselling psychology at the University of

Southern Denmark and also runs experiential skills workshops in

Denmark He speaks and examines at various UK universities as well as

internationally His many publications include Counselling and

Counselling Psychology: A Critical Examination (PCCS Books, 2013), Keeping Ourselves in the Dark (Nine-Banded Books, 2015) and

Depressive Realism (Routledge, 2017) In addition to counselling, the

topics he writes on include failure, humanistic psychology, evolutionarypsychology, anthropathology, and death

Dr Terry Hanley,

CPsychol, AFBPsS, is the Programme Director for the Doctorate inCounselling Psychology at the University of Manchester He is a Fellow

of the Higher Education Academy, an Associate Fellow of the British

Psychological Society and was Editor of Counselling Psychology

Review between the years 2009 and 2015 He has a keen interest in

training therapists in research skills and is a co-author of Introducing Counselling and Psychotherapy Research (Sage, 2013) Additionally,

his own therapeutic practice and research has primarily focused aroundwork with young people and young adults, a topic on which he is also

lead editor of the text Adolescent Counselling Psychology (Routledge,

2013) He is an HCPC-registered Counselling Psychologist and

presently works as a therapist with the organisation Freedom from

Torture providing psychological support to a football therapy project.Follow him on twitter @drterryhanley

Dr Laura Anne Winter,

CPsychol, is an HCPC-registered Counselling Psychologist and Lecturer

in Education and Counselling Psychology based at the University ofManchester Her research interests include social justice, and in

particular the impact of economic and relational inequality on wellbeingand education Previous research has included exploring social justicewithin counselling and educational psychology, the impact of welfarereform on families, and the way in which schools are supporting

emotional wellbeing in the context of austerity Her clinical practice has

predominantly been based within NHS Primary Care settings, workingwith individuals who have been diagnosed with ‘moderate’ and ‘severe’

‘mental health problems’

Kate Adam,

BSc (Hons), PostGrad Dip, Reg MBACP, MSc, Post MSc Dip,

CPsychol, AFBPsS, Reg HCPC, RAPPS, is a Chartered ConsultantCounselling Psychologist, Applied Practice Supervisor and AssociateFellow of the British Psychological Society She works as the Head ofPsychology in a senior leadership position at ABL Health Ltd, a

community health-care provider and in private practice Kate is

experienced in providing a range of clinical interventions, across the lifespan in a variety of settings Her specialist interests include: long-termhealth conditions, eating disorders, personality disorders, psychologicaltrauma, supervision and service development She has an active interest

in evidencing best practice and the application of models in therapy,including positive psychology, behaviour change and mindfulness

Zubeida Ali

is a BACP-accredited Counsellor and Professional Lead for Counsellingfor a large IAPT service in the north of England She held the post ofChair of BACP’s Healthcare Division from 2012 until 2016, havingserved on the Healthcare Executive for a number of years prior to this.Zubeida also serves on the North West Psychological Professions

Network (NWPPN) Steering Committee and chairs the NWPPN

Counsellors Working in the NHS Network

Dr India Amos

is a lecturer in Counselling and Psychotherapy at the University of

Salford and HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist Her researchinterests include qualitative research methodologies, particularly theaesthetic dimension of qualitative description India is particularly

interested in how we can engage individuals in an embodied way withresearch findings to aid deeper empathic understanding of human

Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy (BACP), awarded forher outstanding services to the profession, and Past-President and

Fellow of the International Society for Mental Health Online (ISMHO)

in Paris and before moving to the UK was head of the Child and

Adolescent Bio-Psychopathology Unit of the Henri Rouselle Centre at

St Anne Hospital (Paris) He is the author of Lacan in the Beginner’s

Guide Series (One World Press, 2009)

Clark Baim

is a Senior Trainer in Psychodrama Psychotherapy and the Co-Director

of the Birmingham Institute for Psychodrama, Birmingham, England.From 2000 to 2012, he was the Co-Lead National Trainer for the

Probation Service’s Sexual Offending Groupwork Programmes in

England and Wales In 1987 he established and was the Founder

Director of Geese Theatre UK, a company focusing on rehabilitativework in criminal justice In 2007 he received the David Kipper Scholar’sAward from the American Society of Group Psychotherapy and

Psychodrama

Liz Ballinger

is a BACP Senior Accredited Counsellor She is a lecturer at the

University of Manchester She acts as Programme Director for the MA

in Counselling, alongside supervising doctorate and masters students’research and providing input on the counselling and educational

psychology doctorate programmes Her doctoral thesis focused on

tutors’ experience of counsellor training Her belief in the importance ofthe social context in the shaping of human experience has led her to anongoing critique of therapy, and a related interest in the relationship ofboth gender and social class to therapeutic processes and outcomes

Jill Balmont

has worked as a Chartered Clinical Psychologist in the NHS for over 30years She specialises in the field of HIV and sexual health for bothNottinghamshire and Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trusts,

and she has regularly taught on the Doctorate in Clinical PsychologyCourse at Hull University She is grateful to Dr Janet Garley, Consultant

in Genito-urinary Medicine, for her comments on the medical aspects ofher chapter

Dr Sara Bardsley

qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2016 from the University of

Manchester, having completed specialist training in PsychodynamicInterpersonal Therapy

Rowan Bayne

is Emeritus Professor of Psychology and Counselling at the University

of East London where he was a core tutor on the postgraduate diploma

in counselling and psychotherapy for 32 years His recent books include:

Psychology for Social Work Theory and Practice (with Paula Nicolson, Palgrave Macmillan, 4th ed., 2014); Applied Psychology: Research, Training and Practice (edited with Gordon Jinks, Sage, 2nd ed., 2013); and The Counsellor’s Guide to Personality: Understanding Preferences, Motives and Life Stories (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013).

Professor Jenny Bimrose,

based at the Institute for Employment Research, University of Warwick,has over 30 years of experience teaching at postgraduate level in

counselling, researching and managing in higher education Many of herresearch projects have focused on the theory and practice of counsellingand on the career development of women International comparativeresearch into older women’s career progression across nine countries, onwhich Jenny led, was recently completed and published

Tim Bond

is an Emeritus Professor at the University of Bristol and a Visiting

Professor to the University of Malta and a registered member of BACP

He researches and writes about ethical and legal issues for the talking

therapies and is a consultant to BACP on the Ethical Framework for the Counselling Professions.

John Boorman,

DClinPsych, is a Clinical Psychologist for South London and MaudsleyNHS Trust and Co-director of Greenheart Psychological Services, anACT and contextual-based therapy provider He is also Visiting Lecturer

in the University of Hertfordshire’s Clinical Psychology Department.John regularly delivers Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT)

training for a range of National Health Service, University and privateorganisations He is currently on the committee board for the BritishAssociation of Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP)ACT Special Interest Group, which promotes the dissemination andtraining of ACT throughout the UK His research interests include usingACT and contextual behavioural approaches with children, young

people and their families

Jude Boyles

iis a BACP Senior Accredited Psychological Therapist She has beenpractising as a Therapist for the last 24 years Prior to qualifying, Judeworked in a Rape Crisis centre and in Women’s Aid refuges Jude

qualified as a therapist and worked in a Mental Health Crisis service for

11 years before establishing the Freedom from Torture Centre in

Manchester in 2003 Jude managed the centre for 14 years, and carried acaseload of torture survivors during that time Jude starts a new role inAugust 2017 as a Psychological Therapist with Syrians resettled to the

UK via the Syrian Vulnerable Persons Resettlement Programme

Dr Richard J Brown

is Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology and Programme Director forthe Clinical Psychology Doctorate at the University of Manchester He

is also Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Greater

Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust where he runs theFunctional Neurological Disorders (FuND) Service He delivers therapy,training and supervision in Psychodynamic Interpersonal Therapy (PIT),co-developed PIT skills training for Psychological Wellbeing

Practitioners and co-authored the PIT treatment manual for psychogenicnon-epileptic seizures He is a founding member of the PsychodynamicInterpersonal Therapy Special Interest Group UK

Jo Cooper

has been involved with NLP since the 1980s and was certified by

Richard Bandler as a master trainer in the mid-1990s She was a partner

in an NLP training company for 10 years and now works as a freelancetrainer and consultant She has a private practice in which much of herwork is with equestrians, specialising in confidence coaching,

performance enhancement and trauma recovery She has a special

interest in working systemically with the mind–body system which isespecially relevant when working with sports people

Mick Cooper

is a Professor of Counselling Psychology at the University of

Roehampton and a Chartered Counselling Psychologist Mick is authorand editor of a range of texts on person-centred, existential, and

relational approaches to therapy, including Existential Therapies (Sage, 2nd ed., 2017), Working at Relational Depth in Counselling and

Psychotherapy (with Dave Mearns, Sage, 2005), and Pluralistic

Counselling and Psychotherapy (with John McLeod, Sage, 2011) Mick

has also led a range of research studies exploring the process and

outcomes of humanistic counselling with young people Mick’s latest

book is Existential Psychotherapy and Counselling: Contributions to a Pluralistic Practice (Sage, 2015).

Department for Continuing Education at Oxford University and haswritten extensively in the field of education and short-term therapy His

books include A Psychodynamic Approach to Education (Sheldon Press, 1997) and Short-term Psychotherapy (Palgrave, 2010).

Olivier Cormier-Otaño

is a BACP-accredited counsellor, a psychosexual therapist and a

supervisor in private practice for over 10 years He volunteered for overfive years for LGBT charities as an assessor and a counsellor He

practises in English, French and Spanish, and has a particular interest inthe intersections of language, cultures and narratives in therapy and hasrun a therapeutic group for Gay male asylum seekers and refugees

Olivier facilitates various training events and teaches on various

diplomas for Pink Therapy, the Centre for Psychosexual Health (CPH),Beeleaf Institute and independently Olivier has contributed to articlesand presented in conferences on the subject of asexuality

Dr Mary Creaner

is Course Director for the MSc Clinical Supervision, and Assistant

Professor with the Doctorate in Counselling Psychology, Trinity College

Dublin She is an accredited therapist/supervisor with the Irish

Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy, a member of the

American Psychological Association and also acts as a supervision

consultant and trainer to statutory and voluntary agencies Among her

publications is the book, Getting the Best out of Supervision in

Counselling and Therapy (Sage, 2014) and she was guest editor for a

special section on ‘Current trends in clinical supervision’ (2014) with

the Counselling Psychology Quarterly journal.

Rudi Dallos

is Professor and Research Director on the Doctorate in Clinical

Psychology training programme in Plymouth University, UK He hasworked as a family therapist in a variety of contexts for over 35 yearswith a specialism in work with children and adolescents He has recentlydeveloped a programme of attachment and family therapy intervention(SAFE) for families with a child diagnosed with autism which has

gained research funding He has published several books, including: An Introduction to Family Therapy (4th ed., Open University Press, 2010), Systemic Therapy and Attachment Narratives, (Routledge, 2009) and Formulation in Psychotherapy and Counselling (Taylor and Francis,

2006)

Dominic Davies

is the Founder and CEO of Pink Therapy (www.pinktherapy.com) He is

a Fellow of the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapyand the National Counselling Society He is a Senior Accredited

Psychotherapist with the National Council of Psychotherapists and amember of the World Professional Association for Transgender Health

Dominic is co-editor (with Charles Neal) of the Pink Therapy trilogy,

which were the first British textbooks for therapists working with

lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender clients He works as a therapist,supervisor, mentor and international training consultant on gender

sexuality and relationship diversity issues

Gill Donohoe

is a clinical lead for cognitive behavioural psychotherapy within theImproving Access to Psychological Therapies Service (Sheffield IAPT),Sheffield Health & Social Care NHS Foundation Trust She is a trainedmental health nurse and a BABCP-accredited clinician, supervisor andtrainer Gill helped to establish and teach on the Postgraduate Diploma

in High Intensity Psychological Interventions at the University of

Sheffield from 2008 to 2016 Her interests include large group

psychological interventions, mindfulness-based cognitive group therapyand self-practice and self-reflection (SPSR) She is current chair of

Yorkshire BABCP branch

Windy Dryden

is Emeritus Professor of Psychotherapeutic Studies at Goldsmiths

University of London, and is a Fellow of the British Psychological

Society He has authored or edited more than 220 books and edits 20book series in the area of counselling and psychotherapy His majorinterests are in rational emotive behavior therapy and CBT; single

session interventions; the interface between counselling and coaching;pluralism in counselling and psychotherapy; writing short, accessibleself-help books for the general public; and demonstrating therapy live infront of an audience

Dr Christine Dunkley

is a Consultant Psychotherapist with 30 years’ NHS experience, first as

a medical social worker and then as a BACP senior accredited therapist

As a Senior Trainer with the British Isles Dialectical Behaviour Therapytraining team, she helps clinicians implement the therapy in the UK andinternationally through training events, site visits and regular

consultations She has published widely on DBT, mindfulness,

emotional pain and supervision She is an honorary lecturer for BangorUniversity and has consulted on a large NHS trial on DBT at the

University of Southampton She co-founded the Society for DBT in2012

Graham Dyson,

PhD, DClinPsy, is an HCPC-registered Clinical Psychologist currentlyworking in a Health Psychology setting He has recently worked in thearea of psychological trauma within independent practice and also as aSenior Lecturer on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme atTeesside University, where he was responsible for recruitment and

personal professional development He worked as a Clinical

Psychologist in the National Health Service for six years post

qualification, primarily with adults in a low security setting He

completed his Interpersonal Therapy training in 2005 and has since beenengaged in teaching and supervision within the Durham and Teesside

Michael Ellis,

MA, is a UKCP Registered Psychotherapist He is a Director of the

Gestalt Centre London and a tutor on the MA Programme in

Psychotherapy He has a private practice working with individuals andcouples, is a supervisor, and works with organisations as a trainer andorganisational consultant

Gail Evans

is a trainer and educator in counselling and psychotherapy and has

worked in the field for over 30 years She had a background in socialwork and worked for many years for Relate as couple counsellor,

psychosexual therapist, trainer and clinical supervisor Formerly Head ofthe Counselling Studies Unit, Sheffield Hallam University (SHU), Gail

is currently Programme Director at The Academy: SPACE, which shefounded with SHU’s blessing in 2010 when they discontinued

professional counselling courses She also co-founded, in 2006, a

thriving Counselling and Therapy Centre in Sheffield

Fay Fransella

The late Fay Fransella was Emeritus Reader in Clinical Psychology at

the University of London and Visiting Professor of Personal ConstructPsychology at the University of Hertfordshire After retiring from herUniversity of London post, she established the Centre for Personal

Construct Psychology in London, eventually transferring it to the

University of Hertfordshire, together with the Fransella Collection ofpersonal construct psychology resources She was a Fellow of the

British Psychological Society, and was one of 12 psychologists invited

to contribute their reminiscences in a book marking the Society’s

centenary She authored or edited over 100 publications

Kevin Friery

is a Counsellor and Psychotherapist with a background in behaviouralpsychology Having worked for many years in the NHS, he moved intothe world of workplace counselling in 2001 and since then has beenclinical head of a major Employee Assistance Provider While

maintaining a small private therapy practice, he also works as a

consultant to organisations seeking to resolve complex interpersonalsituations and is often called on to provide training in mental health inthe workplace

Antony Froggett

is a UKCP registered Psychotherapist He is a training analyst and

supervisor with the Institute of Group Analysis (IGA) He is the owner

of Thinking Space Consultancy, which provides consultation and

training about leadership and teamwork He is also a senior lecturer atBirmingham University, where he is employed on the Elizabeth GarrettAnderson Masters programme in Leadership, organised on behalf of theNHS Leadership Academy

David Geldard

had extensive experience in working as a counselling psychologist withtroubled children and their families He worked in mental health andcommunity health settings, and also in private practice Together withhis wife Kathryn he was heavily involved in training counsellors, socialworkers and psychologists, in ways to use media and activity whencounselling children Additionally he showed a keen interest in trainingworkers in the use of experiential counselling methods and in familytherapy He and Kathryn are the authors of several counselling textspublished internationally and translated into several languages

Dr Kathryn Geldard

is Adjunct Senior Lecturer in Counselling at the University of the

Sunshine Coast (USC), Australia Her role includes programme

leadership of the Counselling programme and development of

postgraduate Master of Counselling degrees Her research interests

include adolescent peer counselling, and counsellor training, assessmentand effectiveness Additionally, Kathryn conducted research with

Australian Aboriginal adolescents focused on developing a culturallysensitive peer support programme She is the author of a number oftextbooks founded on her extensive counselling background with

children, young people and their families and has several years’

experience in supervising and training counsellors

Dr Sobhi Girgis,

MMedSci, MRCPsych LLM (Mental Health Law), is a Consultant

Psychiatrist and Associate Medical Director with Sheffield Health andSocial Care NHS Foundation Trust and Honorary Senior Clinical

Lecturer at Sheffield University He is trained in both General Adult andForensic Psychiatry He is the Co-Chair of the Mental Health Act

Committee in his NHS Trust He organises and teaches on induction and

refresher training courses, approved by the North of England ApprovalPanel, for S12 (2) and Approved Clinicians.

humanistic qualitative research with neuroscientific quantitative

research, to continually develop our understanding and support of

human mental health He is particularly interested in understandingconsciousness and self, decision making and intuition, and the

psychology of spectating sport

Dr Stephen Goss,

MBACP, BA, LFHCfSS, is Principal Lecturer on the DPsych

(Professional Studies) at the Metanoia Institute, London He is ResearchDirector at the Online Therapy Institute and co-Editor (Counselling) for

the British Journal of Guidance and Counselling He is a clinical

supervisor for counselling and psychotherapy and an international

consultant in the development of support services and the uses of

technology in the delivery of counselling, psychotherapy and mental

health care His recent publications include Making Research Matter (Routledge, 2016) and Technology in Mental Health: Applications for Practice, Supervision and Training (CC Thomas, 2nd ed., 2016).

service in England She is an internationally recognised trauma

specialist and, among other publications, she wrote the first

psychological self-help book published on trauma in the United

Kingdom

Dr Vanessa Herbert

qualified as a Clinical Psychologist in 2016 from the University of

Manchester, having completed specialist training in PsychodynamicInterpersonal Therapy

Nick Hodge

is Professor of Inclusive Practice at The Autism Centre, Sheffield

Hallam University Nick’s research interests focus on all issues thatimpact on the education and wellbeing of disabled children and youngpeople and their families Much of his work has involved challengingdeficit-led models of disability that mark children and young people asdisordered and other

Sarah Hovington

is a Senior Practitioner for a large IAPT service in the north of England.She is a BACP-accredited counsellor and a BABCP-accredited CBTtherapist and also holds a qualification in primary care mental health.Sarah has served on the Executive Committee of BACP Healthcare and

is the former editor of its journal

Dr Chris Irons

is a Clinical Psychologist He is a Director of Balanced Minds, a

London-based organisation offering compassion-focused services (e.g.,therapy, supervision, coaching, training and teaching) He is a boardmember of the Compassionate Mind Foundation

(www.compassionatemind.co.uk), the charity that sits behind CFT He is

a nationally and internationally recognised trainer and supervisor inCFT

Peter Jenkins

is a registered counsellor, trainer, supervisor and researcher He has been

a member of both the BACP Professional Conduct Committee and theUKCP Ethics Committee He has written extensively on legal, ethicaland professional aspects of counselling and psychotherapy, including

Counselling, Psychotherapy and the Law (2nd ed., Sage, 2007) and, with Debbie Daniels, Therapy with Children: Children’s Rights,

Confidentiality and the Law (2nd ed., Sage, 2010).

Dr Lucy Johnstone

is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist, author of Users and Abusers of

Psychiatry (2nd ed., Routledge, 2000), co-editor of Formulation in

Psychology and Psychotherapy: Making Sense of People’s Problems (2nd ed., Routledge, 2013) and author of A Straight-talking Introduction

to Psychiatric Diagnosis (PCCS Books, 2014) She is the former

Programme Director of the Bristol Clinical Psychology Doctorate and

was lead author of the Good Practice Guidelines on the Use of

Psychological Formulation (Division of Clinical Psychology, 2011.)

She has many years of clinical experience in adult mental health

settings, and is an experienced conference speaker, lecturer and trainer

Dr Elaine Kasket,

CPsychol, is an HCPC registered Counselling Psychologist, an

Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society, a

UKCP-registered and BACP-accredited Psychotherapist, and Programme

Director of the DPsych in Counselling Psychology at Regent’s

University London In her areas of research and scholarship, she hascontributed to pre-recorded programmes for BBC Radio 4, has featured

on numerous live national and regional radio broadcasts, and has

appeared on the BBC, ITN Channel 4 News, the Discovery Channel, theCanadian Broadcasting Company, and America’s Health Network Shehas also authored or contributed to articles in national and internationalmagazines, newspapers and online news sources

Catherine Kerr,

CPsychol, MBACP (Snr Accred), EMDR Europe Approved Consultant,has many years’ experience of working with a wide range of people, andspecialises in working with post traumatic stress disorder Cath has aMaster’s degree in Psychological Trauma and has worked in a variety ofsettings such as the private sector, community colleges, women’s

refuges and the voluntary sector She is currently a Director of KRTS

International Ltd She co-authored Integrating EMDR into Your Practice

with Liz Royle, and provides training and clinical supervision to

practitioners who are working with psychological trauma

Dr Naoko Kishita,

PhD, completed a Clinical Psychology training programme and qualified

as a Clinical Psychologist in 2012 in Tokyo, Japan She has maintainedactive research activities in cognitive and behavioural psychotherapiessince her doctoral training She joined the Department of Clinical

Psychology at the University of East Anglia in July 2014 Since then she

has broadened her expertise in clinical psychology, especially edge expertise in Cognitive Behaviour Therapy with older people underthe mentorship of Professor Laidlaw Her current research interests are

cutting-in evidence-based psychological treatments for older people and theircarers

currently working in community settings in West London with patientsexperiencing severe and enduring mental health difficulties

Dr Sunil Lad

is a Counselling Psychologist employed by Northamptonshire

Healthcare Foundation Trust He works in several services that offersupervision, therapy and support to people in contact with the CriminalJustice System with mental health difficulties, including prisons,

probation and liaison and diversion in the Midlands where he providesinput and therapy

Professor Ken Laidlaw,

PhD, is Head of Department of Clinical Psychology and ProgrammeDirector of the ClinPsyD Clinical Psychology Training Programme atthe Norwich Medical School, University of East Anglia He is also

Honorary Consultant Clinical Psychologist with Norfolk and Suffolk

NHS Trust, having for many years served as Professional Lead of anOlder Adult Clinical Psychology Service He maintains ongoing

research activity in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for late life

depression and anxiety, especially with complex, chronic and comorbidconditions He was the Principal Investigator on the first UK randomisedcontrolled trial of CBT for late life depression

Mark Linington

is an Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist and Child

Psychotherapist (UKCP registered) He trained with The Bowlby

Centre, where he is the Chair of the Executive Committee, a TrainingTherapist and a Training Supervisor He worked for 12 years in the NHS

as a Psychotherapist with people with intellectual disabilities who haveexperienced trauma and abuse He currently works as a Consultant

Psychotherapist and Supervisor with the Clinic for Dissociative Studies,

at a secondary school in London for young people with complex specialneeds, and in private practice with children, families and adults

Dr Linda Machin

trained as a Medical Social Worker She went on to specialise in work inbereavement and established a service for bereaved people in NorthStaffordshire Linda moved into academia, lecturing in social work andcounselling and is now an Honorary Research Fellow in the ResearchInstitute for Primary Care and Health Sciences at Keele University She

is engaged in ongoing research arising from her development of theRange of Response to Loss model and the Adult Attitude to Grief scaleand works as a freelance trainer and counselling consultant

Dr David Mair,

Senior Accredited Member of BACP, is the Head of the Counselling andWellbeing Service at the University of Birmingham His doctoral

research focused on attempts among gay, bisexual and queer male

students to construct meaningful, unified life-narratives from their livedexperience as members of multiple communities He has edited a bookabout short-term counselling in higher education (Routledge, 2016) and

is editor of the BACP journal University and College Counselling.

Doireann Mangan

is an Irish trainee counselling psychologist currently studying for a

doctorate at the University of Manchester Completing a Master’s inContemporary Migration and Diaspora Studies, along with travelling

and working in a wide variety of settings, has brought her into contactwith many different cultures and influenced her work and research Todate, her research has mainly centred on issues to do with cultural

diversity, education and mental health As well as counselling

psychology, other areas of professional interest include reflexive

practice, feminist and social justice perspectives, and refugee issues

Brian Martindale

is a Consultant Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst and Psychotherapist nowworking in private practice Between 2005 and 2012 he was a

Consultant Psychiatrist in Early Intervention in Psychosis for

Northumberland, Tyne and Wear NHS Foundation Trust He is pastChair of the International Society for Psychological and Social

Approaches to Psychosis (ISPS) and was Editor of the ISPS book series

He is Honorary President of the European Federation of PsychoanalyticPsychotherapy and represented Western Europe to the World PsychiatricAssociation for six years In 2009 he was winner of the British

Psychoanalytic Council Award for Outstanding Professional Leadership

Rosaleen McElvaney,

PhD, is a Clinical Psychologist/Psychotherapist with over 20 years’experience working in the field of child sexual abuse She is Chair of theDoctorate in Psychotherapy programme in Dublin City University and is

author of Finding the Words: Talking Children Through the Tough

Times (Veritas, 2015), How Children Tell: Containing the Secret of Child Sexual Abuse (Lambert Academic Publishers, 2015), and Helping Children to Tell About Sexual Abuse: Guidance for Helpers (Jessica

Kingsley, 2016) She is a Fellow of the Psychological Society of Ireland

John McLeod

is Visiting Professor at the Department of Psychology, University ofOslo, and the Institute of Integrative Counselling and Psychotherapy,Dublin He has published widely on a range of topics in counselling andpsychotherapy, with a particular interest in the development of flexible,collaborative approaches to therapy that are informed by cultural

awareness and relevant research evidence

DeeAnna Merz Nagel,

MEd, LMHC, BCC is a Psychotherapist and wellness coach She is acounsellor and coach educator specialising in the use of technology Inaddition to delivering online coaching services, she teaches the ethical

integration of alternative approaches in practice She is co-founder of theOnline Therapy Institute as well as founder of Havana Wellness Studiolocated in Havana, Florida.

Anthea Millar

is a Psychotherapist, Trainer and Supervisor working in independentpractice and with organisations in the UK and abroad She coordinatedthe four-year Adlerian counselling training in Cambridge for 26 yearsand is co-founder of Cambridge Supervision Training

(www.cambridgesupervisiontraining.com) Anthea is on the trainingcommittee of the UK Adlerian Society and co-editor of their journal

She is a co-author of Practical Supervision: How to Become a

Supervisor for the Helping Professions (Jessica Kingsley Publishers,

2014)

Dr Barbara Mitchels,

PhD, is a Psychotherapist working in Devon A retired solicitor, Barbaracombines her legal and therapy practice experience in writing,

workshops and providing a web-based consultancy service for therapists

at www.therapylaw.co.uk Her publications, research and workshopsinclude topics related to post-traumatic stress, conflict resolution,

therapy, confidentiality and the court process, children and the

application of law and ethics to therapy practice

Eric Morris,

PhD, works as the Director of the La Trobe University Psychology

Clinic, in Melbourne, Australia He is a clinical psychologist and

researcher with a long-term interest in Acceptance and CommitmentTherapy and contextual behavioural science Eric researches ACT as anintervention for people with serious mental illness, caregivers, and in the

workplace He is the co-author of ACTivate Your Life: Using

Acceptance & Mindfulness to Build a Life that is Rich, Fulfilling and Fun (with Jon Hill and Joe Oliver, Robinson, 2015), and a co-editor of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis

(with Louise Johns and Joe Oliver, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013)

Jill Mytton,

MSc, CPsychol, DPsych is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist She is

a Visiting Lecturer at the New School of Psychotherapy and

Counselling, London She is listed on the British Psychological Societymedia list for Cults and Thought Reform, has been involved in several

television broadcasts and has presented at international conferences Herprimary research interest is the mental health of Second GenerationAdults, i.e., those born or raised in cultic groups Now retired from

academic work, she is an independent researcher and has a small privatepractice

Julia Noble

is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist based in Manchester, working

in the National Health Service and private health care with individualswith complex and enduring difficulties Julia has a keen research interest

in the use of outcome measures, and the areas of personality disordersand self-harm, maintaining a critical perspective towards diagnosis andinterventions She also lectures on the University of Manchester

Counselling Psychology doctorate

Dr Denis O’Hara

is Professor of Counselling and Psychotherapy at the Australian College

of Applied Psychology, Brisbane Dr O’Hara is a Chartered

Psychologist with the British Psychological Society, and member of theBritish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy as well as thePsychotherapist and Counsellors Federation of Australia He is a keenresearcher and author in counselling and psychotherapy Some of hisresearch interests include hope, self-differentiation, chronic problems ofthe self, and psychotherapy integration Dr O’Hara enjoys providingprofessional development and supervision

Joe Oliver,

PhD, is a Consultant Clinical Psychologist and Director for ContextualConsulting, an ACT-based consultancy in the UK He is joint-Directorfor the University College London Cognitive Behavioural Therapy inPsychosis Postgraduate Diploma, while also holding a post within theNHS He is a peer-review ACBS ACT trainer and regularly trains

professionals both nationally and internationally His research interestsare in the use of contextual CBTs to enhance workplace wellbeing andalso with people with distressing psychosis Joe is co-editor of the

textbook, Acceptance and Commitment Therapy and Mindfulness for Psychosis (with Louise Johns and Eric Morris, Wiley-Blackwell, 2013) and co-author of the ACT self-help book, ACTivate Your Life: Using Acceptance & Mindfulness to Build a Life that is Rich, Fulfilling and Fun (with Jon Hill and Eric Morris, Robinson, 2015).

Stephen Palmer

is Director of the Centre for Stress Management, Visiting Professor ofWork Based Learning and Stress Management, Middlesex University,and Adjunct Professor of Coaching Psychology, Aalborg University,Denmark He has received awards for his contributions to both

counselling psychology and coaching psyology He has authored/edited

over 50 books, including the Handbook of Coaching Psychology (with Alison Whybrow, Routledge, 2007) and The Beginner’s Guide to

Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 2015).

Simon Parritt,

CPsychol, AFBPsS, MSc, BSc (Hons), BA, CPsSC, is a Chartered

Counselling Psychologist specialising in psychosexual and relationshiptherapy and disability in addition to his general work as a CounsellingPsychologist The former Director of SPOD (Association to Aid theSexual & Personal Relationships of People with a Disability), he hasworked in geriatric medicine at St George’s Hospital Medical School,primary care and the voluntary sector Currently, he is also VisitingLecturer on disability and diversity at Surrey University Doctorate inPsychotherapeutic and Counselling Psychology He has been a disabledperson since the age of five

Stephen Paul

is a Psychotherapist and Group Therapist He is co-editor of The

Therapeutic Relationship Handbook (McGraw Hill, 2014) and co-author

of An Introduction to the Therapeutic Relationship (with Divine

Charura, Sage, 2015) In the mid 1970s he introduced group therapy to aLiverpool psychiatric hospital He was later head of a group therapy unit

at West Middlesex Hospital and then head of a therapeutic school inNewcastle He was Director of The Centre for Psychological Therapies

at Leeds Metropolitan University until 2012 where he taught group

therapy for 19 years Stephen now writes, practises therapy, supervisionand coaching, and provides training

Claire Pollitt

is a Chartered Clinical Psychologist currently working within a primarycare psychology service for complex cases, based in South Manchester.Claire qualified as a Cognitive Analytic Therapy (CAT) Practitioner inFebruary 2015 and she routinely uses this as a therapeutic model withinher work She also has a keen interest in compassion-focused therapy,

and finds that the imagery work and focus on compassionate behaviourscomplement the revision stage of CAT, when the client is seeking toform more positive and helpful ways of relating to themselves and

others

Dr Andrew Reeves

is a Senior Lecturer and a BACP Senior Accredited

Counsellor/Psychotherapist with 30 years’ experience of working in arange of settings His original professional background was in socialwork and, over the years, his research and writing has focused on

psychotherapeutic interventions with people who present a suicide risk

or who self-injure He is author of An Introduction to Counselling and Psychotherapy: From Theory to Practice (SAGE, 2012), has edited other texts and is a previous Editor of Counselling and Psychotherapy Research journal.

Tom Ricketts,

PhD, is a BABCP-accredited cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist andnurse consultant working in the NHS He has developed and taught bothqualifying courses for cognitive-behavioural psychotherapists and

introductory courses for non-specialists He has a particular interest inwidening access to cognitive-behavioural therapy through the use ofself-management approaches and the training of health professionals

Dr Elizabeth Robinson,

a psychiatric nurse by background, received her Interpersonal

Psychotherapy (IPT) training in 1997 from Professor John Markowitzand Kathleen Clougherty (both trained by Gerald Klerman, the

originator of IPT) She was the principal IPT research therapist for twoclinical studies; the latter, a brain imaging study of IPT in treatment-resistant depression, was for her PhD at Durham University She workspart-time in private clinical practice and as an IPT trainer/supervisor aspart of the government initiative Improving Access to PsychologicalTherapies for IPT training for adults, and IPT A for adolescents

(Northumbria University)

Chris Rose

is a psychotherapist, supervisor and consultant working in private

practice and higher education, with extensive experience in counsellingand psychotherapy training She has had a long involvement with bothgroup work and Professional and Personal Development (PPD) and is

the author of The Personal Development Group: The Student’s Guide (Karnac, 2008) and editor of Self Awareness and Personal

Development: Resources for Psychotherapists and Counsellors

(Palgrave Macmillan, 2012) She writes regularly for Therapy Today

and is an accredited member of BACP and UKCP

Maxine Rosenfield

has 25 years’ experience as a counsellor, supervisor and trainer She

pioneered telephone counselling in the UK, writing Counselling by Telephone (Sage, 1997), and Telephone Counselling: A Handbook for Practitioners (Palgrave Macmillan, 2013), and has contributed to

counselling and social work texts in the UK and the USA Now based inSydney, Australia, she continues counselling, supervising, training andwriting An educator at the Australian College of Applied Psychology,Maxine has private practices in two Sydney locations and works byphone and Skype with clients and supervisees throughout Australia andinternationally Maxine is currently a member of the Psychotherapy andCounselling Federation of Australia’s (PACFA) Ethics Committee aswell as the PACFA Professional Standards Committee and is a Boardmember of the Australasian Association for Supervision

Liz Royle,

PhD, MA, MBACP (Accred.) EMDR Europe Approved Consultant, haspublished and presented internationally on the subject of Eye MovementDesensitisation Reprocessing (EMDR) and psychological trauma Shespecialises in working with the emergency services and lead the

Uniformed Services task force for the European Society of TraumaticStress Studies from 2008 to 2015 Liz has used EMDR in her clinicalpractice for nearly 20 years, working with a range of presentations fromrecent events through to complex trauma and dissociative disorders Shewas a founder member of the UK Psychological Trauma Society and isnow a Director of KRTS International Ltd

Anja Rutten

is an experienced and practicing therapist, psychologist and academic.Anja’s research interests are in therapeutic experiences of clients withAsperger Syndrome, and in person-centred/experiential counselling forthis client group Anja currently works for the Sherwood PsychotherapyTraining Institute (SPTI) as Head of Training

Bernie Ryan

completed her Masters in Counselling and postgraduate certificate inSupervision in Counselling and the Helping Professions at the

University of Manchester Bernie worked at the St Mary’s Sexual

Assault Referral Centre (SARC) in Manchester, as a counsellor andlatterly as Centre Manager before taking early retirement in 2016 Shenow provides independent consultancy and supervision and works as atraining and development manager for a sexual violence organisation.She has provided training and consultancy nationally and

internationally Bernie was awarded an OBE in the Queen’s 2016 NewYear’s Honours for services to supporting victims of sexual violence

Christiane Sanderson

is a Senior Lecturer in Psychology at the University of Roehampton with

28 years’ experience working with survivors of child sexual abuse,

domestic abuse and complex trauma She has delivered consultancy andtraining to voluntary and statutory agencies, including the MetropolitanPolice Service and the NSPCC She is a trustee of the charity One in

Four and the author of a number of books, including Counselling Skills for Working with Shame (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2015),

Counselling Skills for Working with Trauma (Jessica Kingsley

Publishers, 2013), Counselling Skills for Working with Survivors of Domestic Abuse (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2008), Counselling Adult Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 2006) and The Warrior Within (One in Four, 2010).

Dr Adam J Scott

is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist and works as a manager,

therapist and supervisor He is currently the Assistant Head of

Psychology at ABL Health, a community health-care provider based inthe North of England, and a Trauma-Focused Therapist at SurvivorsManchester Adam is experienced in working therapeutically with

clients with long-term health conditions, eating disorders and

psychological trauma He has an active interest in the application ofmindfulness, positive psychology and behavioural change to his

everyday experience She is interested in the effects on health-care

professionals of working with people who have neurological conditions.She has written extensively on the effects of illness on relationships

Julia is best known for her books, which include Phantasy in Everyday Life (Penguin, 1985; Karnac, 1995), Melanie Klein: Key Figures in Counselling and Psychotherapy (Sage, 1992) and Helping Children with Ill or Disabled Parents (Jessica Kingsley Publishers, 1996).

Heather Sequeira,

CPsychol PhD, is a Chartered Counselling Psychologist Heather is avisiting Lecturer at the University of Birmingham and runs PTSD

Trauma Workshops, specialising in Trauma-Focused CBT for

psychologists and other mental health professionals Heather sits on theBritish Psychological Society committee for Crisis, Disaster and

Trauma She has published widely and consults on trauma, OCD andCBT with universities, businesses and individuals She continues towork in a specialist capacity for the NHS In previous years Heather

held the editorship of the journal Counselling Psychology Review and

the post of Clinical Research Fellow at the University of London

Victoria Settle

is an Attachment-based Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist at The BowlbyCentre in London, where she is a teacher and supervisor She chairs theClinical Training Committee, which oversees the registration of

members on the four-year attachment-based psychoanalytic course, andshe also sits on the Executive Victoria has a private practice based inEast London and has a long-standing interest in how attachment theorycan be used to work with people who are suffering from more seriousmental health difficulties She is also a massage practitioner

of these for solution-focused brief therapy Also in 2014, Guy’s book,

Solution-Focused Practice, was published by Palgrave Macmillan Guy

is the current chair of the British Association of Social Workers

Helen Sieroda