British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy

ABSTRACT Background Without a cure for dementia, providing psychosocial support to people living with the condition is imperative. There is a developing evidence base for psychological and therapeutic support for people living with dementia. However, there is little to guide therapists working in this area, in terms of approaches and techniques that are likely to be successful. Methods In the present study, we utilised different methods to engage people with dementia and their family members in discussions around ways in which psychotherapists could improve the delivery and accessibility of person‐centred therapy, to develop core competences for therapists. We brought together evidence from interviews with people with dementia, their families, and psychotherapists, with workshops utilising a World Café approach. Findings We hosted four workshops with 47 participants in total. Using thematic analysis, we identified core themes across the different forms of data. We developed core competences in four areas: knowledge of dementia, therapeutic techniques and skills, therapeutic relationship and scope of practice. Discussion The competences developed present an overview of expectations for those working therapeutically with families affected by dementia. It is hoped that their development leads to increased awareness of the specialist skills needed to engage with people with dementia, valuing of these skills for psychotherapists.

ABSTRACT Background Approximately half of the global population resides in remote regions, yet healthcare resources remain disproportionately concentrated in urban areas. Social and geographical isolation exacerbate health disparities, resulting in limited access to services for rural, remote and island communities. This paper explores how arts-based health interventions respond to these inequalities. Methods We conducted a literature review of research studies published over the past two decades. Results Arts-based health interventions have emerged as a promising approach to addressing disparities and enhancing overall health and wellbeing. The arts support healthcare literacy, individual agency, self-expression and a strengthened sense of community presence and identity. Creative practices rooted in local and Indigenous traditions foster sustainable and meaningful relationships between people and place, enabling a sense of connected belonging and intergenerational historicity. Active community participation, trustful relationships between stakeholders and communities, and an appreciation of cultural differences are seen to increase the effectiveness of these interventions. Conclusion The findings of this review aim to inform policymakers, practitioners and researchers about the potential and challenges of arts-based health interventions in remote and marginalised communities.

Abstract This is a post-humanist exploration into the quantum ontology of entanglement as a force that moves through prisons and their occupants. It postulates that quantum entanglement is the prime cause of affective energy transmission. It investigates quantum entanglement in sites of traumatic contamination and queries whether emotional residue is in fact, entangled particles left by traumatised people. It explores ideas around lived experience, quantum mechanics, affect and emotional residues, sympathetic magic, critical criminology and transformative criminology. Ultimately it questions the treatment of our most marginalised and postulates that criminology needs to work harder to ensure better outcomes for people at the mercy of our current systems of justice.

ABSTRACT This article looks at the individual and society as simultaneously consubstantial and in alienation, as ‘individual-in-society’, held in a tension that affects the way in which people are with their own and others’ lives and deaths. It raises questions about the nature of the age we live in and how the individual- in-society emerges from it. Human designation as a commodity, consumer or machine results in a stasis of alienation, humans unable to form desire, or speak from passion. As therapists, ourselves individuals-in-society, how do we respond societally and therapeutically to the catastrophe of this alienation? Is there any place left for responsibility for others as humans or have we become hypnotised in our separate shells, the world our oysters, all passion, all connectivity deactivated? The paper draws on the phenomenology of separation and fear, and on the thoughts of Karl Marx, Guy Debord, Sigmund Freud, Soren Kierkegaard, Emmanuel Levinas and others. It points to the need for therapy to connect with passion through diverse lenses, such as art, history, sociology, politics, nature, philosophy, and the everyday encounter in our own lives.

This study analyzes the use of istishna contracts in online buying and selling transactions. Then the method used in making this journal is a qualitative research method and in collecting data using secondary data, namely by collecting data through websites, journals, and books. In using the istishna contract in online buying and selling transactions, it already follows the provisions or pillars of the istishna contract. The istishna contract can also end based on several things, one of which is the non-fulfillment of formal obligations by the parties involved. Online buying and selling transactions that are growing rapidly, in an Islamic perspective, fall into the category of business or commerce. In Islam, there are rules governing sellers and buyers in buying and selling transactions. This research explores the pillars and conditions for conducting online buying and selling transactions and the implementation of Istishna contracts in online buying and selling transactions. The results of this study determine the sale and purchase transactions in Islam with an istishna contract and what form the transaction takes.

The human brainBrain emerges both phylogenetically and ontogenetically, that is, over many years during the course of evolution and individually as each person develops throughout their lifetime. Because of the complexityComplexity of the evolution of cognitive reasoningReasoning and the interactionInteraction between cognitionCognition and emotionEmotion, dual-processProcess theoriesTheory in neuromarketing and neuroscienceNeuroscience researchResearch cannot accurately encapsulate the nuances of different types of thinkingThinking. Further understandingUnderstanding of these complex modes of thinkingThinking is needed in psychotherapyPsychotherapy to better understand their thoughtThought processesProcess. The development of conceptualizationsConceptualization inCompassion focused therapy compassion-focused therapyTherapy, compassion focused (CFT) has helped cognitive-behavioral therapists (CBT) to understand that human beings are ontogenically and phylogenetically designed to respond to the care and kindness of others. The CFTCompassion focused therapy paradigm emphasizes early childhood experiencesExperience and how they impact emotionally regulated behaviorBehavior. However, this chapter suggests that CFTCompassion focused therapy has not ontogenetically conceptualized individual development and that incorporating transactional analysisAnalysis, transactional (TA) can be valuable in guiding evidence-based clinicians. I aim to develop a theoretical phylogenetic and ontogenetic modelModel, which is clinically useful and empirically based for depressionDepression and anxiety. Results suggest four different ways of reasoningReasoning: i, System 1 is instinctive (survival thinkingThinking/non-conscious thinkingThinking); ii, System 2 is algorithmic, childChild or parentParent-driven; System 2 is safe, reflective; and System 2 is a regulative system of metacognitive awarenessAwareness. The TA-CFT modelModel and continuous variation in cognitive abilityAbility, cognitive enable psychotherapists to pay particular attentionAttention to metacognitionMetacognition, gamesGame, and post hoc justifications and avoid ineffective interventionsIntervention. Six clinical interventionsIntervention are also presented.

Abstract The topic of language as power (LaP) in individual therapeutic encounters has thus far been overlooked, and as bilingual therapists have the ability to use more than one language in the therapy room, their experience of LaP is a compelling research area that this paper attempts to explore. This qualitative, inductive, phenomenological study used interviews and interpretative phenomenological analysis to explore five bilingual Arabic–English‐speaking therapists' experiences of LaP in the therapeutic encounter. The study identifies two overarching themes: (a) the emergence of identity and power from language and (b) comparisons of power in the English and Arabic languages. Within these themes, the study finds that therapists experience LaP through multiple avenues: self‐disclosure, intersectionality, being transported to different identities and expressions of power and power of expression in Arabic–English. These multiple avenues illustrate the complexity of LaP in the therapeutic encounter. The study sheds light on an underexplored area in psychotherapy, illuminating an important area for psychotherapists and training institutions to consider when working with clients.

Objective(s)To examine the psychometric properties of the idiographic Goal‐Based Outcome (GBO) tool for young people: test–retest stability, convergent validity, and sensitivity to an intervention.MethodsThis measure validation study used data from a randomized controlled trial of school‐based humanistic counseling. We used multilevel analyses to assess test–retest stability, convergent validity of the GBO tool against nomothetic measures of mental wellbeing, and sensitivity to an intervention.ResultsThe GBO tool showed acceptable stability over a 6–24 week period; moderate convergent validity with nomothetic measures of mental well‐being, self‐esteem, and depression; and greater sensitivity to an intervention than a measure of psychological distress.ConclusionsThe GBO tool shows evidence of having acceptable psychometric properties and is suitable for monitoring change on individual goals. It may also have the capacity to function as a population‐level indicator of outcomes in conjunction with the use of other measures of mental health and wellbeing.