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Lisa Mundell discovers that EMDR is an effective key for releasing a client’s stuck grief reaction onto a healthy trajectory. BACP Children and Young People, March 2012

Open article: Young people’s relationship to their physical selves is often problematic. Lucy-Jean Lloyd discusses the significance of this issue, which may not arise naturally in session unless counsellors themselves are comfortable within their own bodies and willing to address it. BACP Children and Young People, June 2012

Jo Warwick looks at the effects of parental smothering on a child’s developmental capacity, noting that the ‘good child’ can be overlooked in the mental health scheme of things. BACP Children and Young People, June 2012

Francis Taylor queries how useful it is to give children who have no experience of counselling, a choice about it. Is this the equivalent of accepting their refusal to try broccoli? BACP Children and Young People, September 2012

Supervision needs for counsellors of children and young people differ from the needs of those who counsel primarily adults. Lorraine Sherman discusses the kind of supervisor we should look for, and illustrates the dilemmas that can be thrown up in ‘the space between’. BACP Children and Young People, December 2012

Lynn Martin believes that self-injury serves a variety of functions for the young client in terms of survival of the organism, and discusses the most useful responses we can make. BACP Children and Young People, June 2013

Open article: Cinzia Altobelli and Cat Payne remind us of the hidden harm of parental drug and alcohol misuse to children and young people, and introduce a family intervention – M-PACT. BACP Children and Young People, March 2014

A pilot project by KOOTH to harness the power of Dialectical Behaviour Therapy to tackle self-harm in young people has met with sufficient success to be spreading into other areas. Elaine Bousfield explains. BACP Children and Young People, March 2014

Kirsty Bilski shows how the use of a sandtray sits happily alongside many theories and client issues, and has its place in supervision. BACP Children and Young People, June 2014

How can parents be involved in their child’s therapy so that feelings are shared where they need to be heard? Judith Sonnenberg describes her groupwork with families. BACP Children and Young People, December 2014