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Perspectives

Open Access

The role of BACP in maximising the potential of counselling and psychological therapies research in the UK: Benefitting clients, communities, and societies
Michael Barkham, Divine Charura, Mick Cooper, Lynne Gabriel, Terry Hanley, John McLeod, Naomi Moller, Andrew Reeves, Kate Smith
Pages: 1133-1140 | First Published: 04 June 2024

A perspective on neurodivergent-affirming relational practice: Exploration of identity and the healing process 
Samantha Fuld, M. R. McKelvie
Pages: 1141-1144 | First Published: 25 June 2024

Open Access
Research‐informed counselling and psychotherapy: A training and accreditation agenda
Mick Cooper, John McLeod, Kate Smith
Pages: 1145-1148 | First Published: 02 July 2024

Reviews

Open Access
Therapeutic alliance in psycho‐oncology: A systematic review
Charlotte Flock, Miriam Grapp, Rahel Oldsen, Hans-Christoph Friederich, Till Johannes Bugaj
Pages: 1149-1167 | First Published: 15 November 2023

Original articles 

Open Access
Italian public interest in online and in‐person psychological support during the COVID‐19 pandemic: Insights from Google Trends
Giuseppina Lo Moro, Scaioli Giacomo, Conrado Francesco, Linot Carola, Bert Fabrizio, Siliquini Roberta
Pages: 1168-1180 | First Published: 15 November 2023

Open Access
The social value and financial benefits of providing preventive and timely counselling to people with sight loss in Wales, UK
Bethany F. Anthony, Ned Hartfiel, Rhiannon T. Edwards
Pages: 1181-1190 | First Published: 20 November 2023

Open Access
The development of the Psychotherapists' Supervision Preferences Questionnaire—Derived from the Proctor Model
Simon Fagernäs, Åsa Spännargård, Sven Alfonsson
Pages: 1191-1205 | First Published: 07 December 2023

How self‐injury affects psychotherapists: A qualitative study
Cindy O'Connor, Paul Surgenor
Pages: 1206-1218 | First Published: 09 December 2023


The psychometric properties and treatment outcomes associated with two measures of the adult therapeutic alliance using naturalistic data
Daryl Mahon, Takuya Minami, (G. S.) Jeb Brown
Pages: 1219-1231 | First Published: 20 December 2023

Online psychoeducation groups for mental health promotion: Perceptions of Brazilian university students
Grasiele Cristina Lucietto da Silva, Debora Cristina dos Santos Pereira, Dália Passos Sousa, Deise Coelho de Souza, Marta Regina Gonçalves Correia-Zanini, Fabio Scorsolini-Comin
Pages: 1232-1242 | First Published: 22 December 2023

Practitioner psychologists' perspectives on working with clients with psychosis in a South‐East Asian city‐state: A qualitative investigation
Siying Wen, Pawel D. Mankiewicz
Pages: 1243-1256 | First Published: 02 January 2024

Open Access
Hindering events in psychotherapy with adolescents: A retrospective investigation of patients' recollection
Alessia Calabrò, Luisa Cassera, Filippo Aschieri
Pages: 1257-1268 | First Published: 02 January 2024

Investigating the academic attainment and progress of children in receipt of individual counselling: A matched comparison study of primary school age children in England
Katalin Toth, Sarah Golden, Pam Sammons
Pages: 1269-1279 | First Published: 12 January 2024

Improved self‐ and relational regulation: The relationship with the client changes the therapist
Olivia Rodrigues da Cunha, Luc Vandenberghe
Pages: 1280-1287 | First Published: 14 February 2024

Open Access
Inter‐modality comparison of working alliance and client satisfaction in online counselling during the COVID‐19 pandemic: An exploratory study
Carla Moccia, Harriet L. Bowyer
Pages: 1288-1299 | First Published: 11 March 2024

Group Radical Openness: Participants' attributions of change
Violet Johnstone, Cian McDonough, Rachel Egan, Katie Browne, Amy Corbett
Pages: 1300-1309 | First Published: 21 March 2024

Open Access
Helping college students with autism spectrum disorder: Exploring factors affecting use of counselling
Nicole Noble, Nicholas Bueno, Audrey Zatopek, Jeremias Hernandez
Pages: 1310-1321 | First Published: 12 March 2024

The linear pattern of therapeutic alliance development: Exploring the relationship between alliance trajectories over time and the outcomes of systemic psychotherapy treatment for adaptation disorders
Tomasz Prusiński
Pages: 1322-1336 | First Published: 29 March 2024

The effect of a spiritual intelligence‐based counselling programme on suicidal ideation and self‐concept among retirement
Basma Eid Alshareef, Othman A. Alfuqaha
Pages: 1337-1344 | First Published: 28 March 2024

Replication of relations among working alliance, distress and attendance variables
Scott T. Meier
Pages: 1345-1356 | First Published: 28 March 2024

Open Access
Gendered capital in psychotherapy: A thematic analysis of patients' experiences of the therapists' gender
Erwin Schweitzer, Yvonne Schaffler, Andrea Jesser, Thomas Probst, Elke Humer, Brigitte Schigl
Pages: 1357-1367 | First Published: 31 March 2024

Open Access
Qualitative accounts from deliberate practice training for empathic communication among psychotherapy trainees
Karina Nurse, Melissa O'Shea, Jade Sheen
Pages: 1368-1379 | First Published: 23 April 2024

Pluralistic psychotherapists' and counsellors' experiences of working with actively suicidal clients: A qualitative interpretative phenomenological analysis
Leo Muckley
Pages: 1380-1392 | First Published: 06 May 2024

When the therapist's and the client's woundedness meet: Dialogical selves of Filipino self‐identified wounded healers
Anne Marie D. Topacio, Mira Alexis P. Ofreneo
Pages: 1393-1403 | First Published: 08 May 2024

Open Access
The empathetic landscape: Examining the role of empathy in the well‐being of counsellors and psychotherapists working with trauma
Aimie Palumbo, Agata Wezyk, Alison Woodward, Constantina PanourgiaPages: 1404-1414 | First Published: 06 June 2024

Open Access
Online psychological support in the COVID‐19 era: Social representations, trust and perceived effectiveness from the perspectives of clients and professionals
Elisa Colì, Loredana Gavrila, Dacia Cozzo, Rino Falcone
Pages: 1415-1431 | First Published: 02 June 2024

Open Access
Who will stay and who will go? Identifying risk factors for psychotherapy dropout
Christopher McGovern, Alison Athey, Eleanor E. Beale, James C. Overholser, Stephanie H. Gomez, Christiana Silva
Pages: 1432-1441 | First Published: 17 June 2024

Open Access
Healing involvement and stressful involvement experienced by psychotherapy trainees: Patterns, correlates and perceived development
E. Orlinsky, M. H. Rønnestad, U. Willutzki, T. A. Schröder, E. Heinonen, H. Löffler-Stastka, I. Messina, J. Pirke, A. Hartmann
Pages: 1442-1453 | First Published: 04 July 2024

Open Access
Developing a minimum data standard for student mental health services in the UK: A qualitative study with staff from university support services
Jennifer O'Donnell, Emma Broglia, Afra Turner, Mark Fudge, Louise Knowles, Michael Barkham, SCORE Consortium
Pages: 1454-1465 | First Published: 24 June 2024

The relationship between lifelong learning and professional development activities in a Portuguese sample
Rodrigo Ponces Coelho, António Pazo Pires, Greg Neimeyer, Alexandre Vaz, David Neto, Daniel Sousa
Pages: 1466-1478 | First Published: 25 June 2024

Open Access
Who's willing to lay on the virtual couch? Attitudes, anthropomorphism and need for human interaction as factors of intentions to use chatbots for psychotherapy
Tudor-Daniel Huțul, Alexandru Popescu, Adina Karner-Huțuleac, Andrei Corneliu Holman, Andreea Huțul
Pages: 1479-1488 | First Published: 24 June 2024

When compassion, aka karuna, enters the Indian psychotherapy space: A mixed‐method case‐series study of compassion‐focused therapy in depression
Pramita Sengupta, Priya Saxena
Pages: 1489-1502 | First Published: 09 July 2024

An evaluation of patient and public involvement (PPI) experience in NHS Talking Therapies for anxiety and depression services: A framework analysis and practical recommendations
Irini L. Verbist, Hannah Fabian, Dale Huey, Helen Brooks, Amy Blakemore
Pages: 1503-1515 | First Published: 07 July 2024

Open Access
Trans and non‐binary person‐centred therapists' experiences of, and responses to, transprejudice from clients: A reflexive thematic analysis
Megan Wright, David Murphy
Pages: 1516-1527 | First Published: 07 July 2024

Open Access
It's like Jenga: A collaborative autoethnography study into facilitators' experiences of a person‐centred community of practice, focused on critical thinking skills for counselling and psychotherapy students
Peter Blundell, Madeline Hall
Pages: 1528-1538 | First Published: 03 July 2024

Does personal therapy predict better trainee effectiveness?
Xu Li, Yuanming Wang, Feihan Li
Pages: 1539-1548 | First Published: 07 July 2024

Open Access
Eye movements and emotions: Efficacy of novel eye‐movement protocol Tholáge
Gina C. Martin, Deanna Chrones, Corey Fritsch
Pages: 1549-1561 | First Published: 11 July 2024

Open Access
A qualitative exploration of the experience and personal and professional impact of psychodynamic and integrative counselling training on adoptee counsellors
Ann Bevitt, Banjo Aromolaran
Pages: 1562-1576 | First Published: 08 August 2024

Open Access
Making meaning: The experience of Shared Individual Formulation Therapy in adults with functional neurological disorder
Myles Gutkin, Richard A. Kanaan, Loyola McLean, Jodi Cartoon, Richard J. Brown
Pages: 1577-1587 | First Published: 31 July 2024

Open Access
Inpatient psychotherapy for complex personality pathology: The long‐term development of symptoms, well‐being and schema modes
Roel M. Pietersen, Karin Timmerman, Gerben J. Westerhof
Pages: 1588-1599 | First Published: 11 September 2024

Open Access
Religion and spirituality in therapeutic training in the UK: A survey of current and recent trainees
Jane Hunt
Pages: 1600-1611 | First Published: 27 August 2024

Open Access
Advancing transculturally informed, humanistic therapeutic practice for refugees and asylum seekers presenting with embodied trauma
Charlotte O'Brien, Divine Charura
Pages: 1612-1631 | First Published: 16 August 2024

Open Access
Virtual body and emotions: A pilot study on the use of virtual reality for the management of unpleasant sensations after cancer
Valeria Sebri, Ilaria Durosini, Milija Strika, Silvia Francesca Maria Pizzoli, Ketti Mazzocco, Gabriella Pravettoni
Pages: 1632-1640 | First Published: 15 August 2024

Does a weekly ward‐based interpersonal therapy group reduce psychological distress for women in an acute psychiatric inpatient hospital? A service evaluation
Emily Staite, Farah Francine
Pages: 1641-1648 | First Published: 29 August 2024

A comparison of the efficacy of mindfulness‐based cognitive therapy and Beck cognitive therapy on the depression and anxiety of patients recovering from COVID‐19: A pilot study
Maryam Khajehnezhad, Sahar Khanjani Veshki
Pages: 1649-1659 | First Published: 03 September 2024

Open Access
Therapy and counselling experiences of queer adults in Germany
Sonja Bröning, Agostino Mazziotta
Pages: 1660-1669 | First Published: 01 September 2024

Open Access
Training, assessment and competence in Counselling for Depression: Experiences of trainees, trainers and supervisors
Reginald Thomas O'Brien, Vivien Burr, Heather Dale
Pages: 1670-1680 | First Published: 28 August 2024

Developing the professional identity of school counsellors in the Asia Pacific: Challenges and ways forward
Mark G. Harrison, Low Poi Kee
Pages: 1681-1688 | First Published: 28 August 2024

Open Access
‘Yoga is a way of life’ exploring experiences of yoga as a treatment for substance use: An interpretative phenomenological analysis
Nicole M. Miller
Pages: 1689-1698 | First Published: 01 September 2024

Open Access
Clinically representative treatment for generalised anxiety disorder
Eivind Kjølsrød, Malin Westgaard, Martin Brattmyr, Jakob Lundqvist, Martin Schevik Lindberg, Odin Hjemdal, Audun Havnen, Stian Solem
Pages: 1699-1706 | First Published: 04 September 2024

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