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Open article: The stigma associated with psychiatric illness can be exacerbated in military culture. Mervyn Wynne Jones offers an insight into life in the armed forces and considers the challenges for civilian therapists engaging with this client group. Therapy Today, October 2013

In the second of our four-part series, Christina Thompson reflects on her experience as a boarding school counsellor, in conversation with Thurstine Basset. BACP Children, Young People and Families, June 2022

In her blog, Editor Nicola Banning reflects on seeking first to understand and then to be understood as she introduces the July issue of our BACP Workplace journal. BACP journals blogs

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.

"... being an effective container is an odd mixture of things. On the one hand, it requires a solid presence... On the other, if the containment is to be authentic, then it needs to be porous." Regular column from Ryan Lowe. BACP Children, Young People and Families, September 2020

Many veterans face difficulties adapting to civilian life when they leave the armed forces. Michael Stott works with veterans to help them manage the transition, and thinks civilian therapists have an important role to play in facilitating the process. Therapy Today, October 2013

Cordelia Nevin Galgut, a practising psychotherapist who is herself menopausal, raises the need for us to think differently about this phase of a woman’s life. Healthcare Counselling and Psychotherapy Journal, April 2015

‘For me, acceptance is, “it is what it is”. I may not like this situation, and I may never agree with this change, but it is happening, so how can I find a way forward, minimising the detrimental impact of it?’ BACP Workplace, April 2020

With an ageing population working for longer, Jane Moffett explores how employees can best prepare for life after work, and what employers can do to help support their employees to have a good ending from their professional lives. BACP Workplace, October 2023

Open article: If we empower clients who bring the topic of gender identity into the therapy room with an awareness of their psychological process, and help them to become emotionally robust, they will make healthy choices, writes Michelle Bridgman. Private Practice, Winter 2017