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The Long-Term Impact of Boarding School
Boarding School Syndrome is not a medical category, but a proposal that there is an identifiable cluster of learned behaviours and emotional states that may follow growing up in boarding school, which can lead to serious psychological distress.
Read MoreWhat Counsellors Need to Know About Dissociation
What is dissociation? Why does dissociation happen? How can we help our clients who dissociate? This article looks at dissociation and its relationship to trauma.
Read MoreCounselling Clients with ADHD
The following article was is based around Dr Phil Mollon’s seminar hosted in February 2016 titled “The Disintegrating Self: Understanding and working with adults with ADHD and/or Autistic Spectrum traits”. It was written by our guest blogger Andy Darling. Here we look, in particular, at ADHD.
Read MoreHow can Therapists Respond to Suicidal Clients?
Suicide is the biggest killer of men under 45 in the UK. One in four people who kill themselves have been in contact with mental health services – this means three out of four have not.
Read MoreThe Emotional Impact of Boarding School – an Interview With Joy Schaverien
Joy Schaverien is an illustrious figure in psychotherapy – her work has involved teaching and training as a lecturer, long-term work with the NHS, and is the author of several books.
Read MoreGrowing Up As An Only Child – an Interview with Bernice Sorensen
Bernice Sorensen is one of the foremost experts on issues pertaining to only children on personal, cultural, and social levels. She has researched how the only child develops, and the lasting effects that being an only child can have in adulthood.
Read MoreUnderstanding The Trauma of Childhood Sexual Abuse
Christiane Sanderson gave her workshop on unlocking the trauma of childhood sexual abuse with Brighton Therapy Partnership in November 2015. This was a sold out event, so we know some of you may have missed out.
Read MoreHumanising Psychiatry – an Interview with Rachel Freeth
Rachel Freeth has worked cross-discipline, and has made it her mission to find a way to humanise the clinical nature of psychiatry.
Read MoreDissociation and Trauma: an Interview With Miriam Taylor
Miriam Taylor is one of the foremost experts in working with trauma in counselling and therapy. She is hosting a workshop with Brighton Therapy Partnership in March 2016 on how to work with dissociation.
Read MoreHow Does Technology Affect Relationships and Attachment
This is a writeup of an event by Linda Cundy on therapy in the digital age, with a focus on technology, relationships and attachment.
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