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There are stories all over the news at the moment of young people’s poor mental health and high levels of anxiety and depression in girls. This causes much concern for counsellors.

In the third and final interview with our speakers from the upcoming conference, What Makes a Good Intervention in Therapy?, we spoke to Maggie Turp.

Dr Chris Irons returned to discuss Compassion Focused Therapy, and its use as an approach to shame and trauma.

Dr Aaron Balick will be speaking at our upcoming Interpretation Conference alongside Patrick Casement and Maggie Turp. His topic is "Using the Relationship in Therapy: What makes a relationship with “me” so special?"

We interviewed Patrick to talk to him on the topics of his work, his life, and his feelings around the direction of therapeutic practice. Learn from one of the greatest minds in our profession, whose career was rich with experiences and whose made it his mission to continuously be 'learning from life'.

When it comes to counselling, understanding your client is key. Young people are often in a very different mental space than adults, due to the physiological and cultural specifics of adolescence.

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.

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.

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.