We asked our completing Postgrad Certificate Counselling Students what they wish they'd been told at the start of the year. The enclosed attachment will tell you what they said.
The outcome of the debate (see posting below) was 2 to 1 against - you can read more at
http://www.psychotherapy.org.uk/debate_on_psychotherapy_update.html
A pretty frustrating discussion between Lord Layard and Jeffrey Masson - author of "Against Therapy" - on Radio 4's Today programme this morning. You can listen to the bbc podcast at
http://www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b006qj9z. The podcast itself lasts for several hours and you need to fast forward to the last five minutes. There's a debate taking place tonight at the Royal Geographical Society on the motion “Psychotherapy has done more harm than good", and the discussion was pretty much based around that.