BACP CCYP - CCYP Journal

Counselling Children and Young People (CCYP) is the quarterly professional journal for members of BACP's Counselling Children and Young People division. It is published by the British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy.

We welcome articles offering new perspectives on current thinking; debate on practical or professional issues; theory discussions; shared experience and best practice.

Before you start, have a clear idea of the concepts and information you want to convey and why they matter. Consider the readership in order to inform your article and make it relevant.

If you are writing about research, please do not write an academic essay - convert your introduction, method, results and conclusions into a narrative format and pay particular attention to the opening paragraphs of your article, to engage the reader.

If you are wondering how to bring your article to life, you may wish to include brief case studies, graphs or charts to illustrate it. Please ensure you have obtained any relevant copyright or other permission (see submission requirements, below).

It is sensible to approach the editor with your idea first, before spending time writing what may not be suitable or may need tweaking slightly in focus to be suitable for our readership. We commission exactly for each issue rather than keep a stock of possibles.

Please include with your submission your name, address, daytime telephone number and email address, if available.

December 2011

September 2011

'Where lunatics prosper'
Jeanine Connor reveals some hard facts about mental health labels and latency-age boys playing console games
'Monstrous’ teens
Beasts, supervillains and freeing the Wounded Self, by David Taransaud
Anger management: the myth
We need to hear why young people are angry, says Nick Luxmoore
Anger: a way through
Mike Trier on groupwork with Year 9 boys
Building blocks for boys
Guidelines from Andrew Malekoff for effective groupwork with boys
Coaching and ADHD
A child with ADHD symptoms may still benefit from coaching, says Naomi Richards
Destination PhD
Val Taylor continues her series
Assessing creatively
Liana Lowenstein offers guidelines and techniques in advance of her visit to the UK
Indigenous and invisible
What do counsellors need to understand? Narelle Smith reports from Australia
Getting CBT into schools
Colleen Cummings and colleagues ponder the issue

December 2009

What if...?
Anxiety in young people is on the rise. Margot Levinson discusses its role and possible resolution; and four practitioners share case studies
When women abuse children
As organisations review safety measures for young children, Maggie Mealy updates us on the 'myth' that females do not abuse
How teenagers become violent
An excerpt from Camila Batmanghelidjh's chapter in Teenagers and attachment
When shame leads to violence
Jonathan Asser describes his Shame/Violence Intervention with young offenders, which he is upstreaming to secondary schools
Coaching or counselling?
Suzannah Wallace acknowledges similarities, but believes that many anxious teens can be helped before needing therapy
Classroom Link 4
Marie Delaney finishes her series on how counsellors can help teachers who struggle with very difficult pupils
Thomas's butterflies
Ros Baldwin describes work with a boy who conducted his own therapy in pictures
Reflective guidance
Joost Dross writes about groupwork with acting-out youngsters
Emotional first aid
An innovative training from Southampton CAMHS provides a first line of defence for children's workers. Paul Jetten reports
Smarty the hedgehog
Dennis Neill describes a systemic approach to dealing with encopresis
Combating bullying
Nicky Sworder introduces findings from her research
A Welsh celebration
Report of an event to celebrate school-based counselling

September 2009

Now we are 30
Ann Beynon, Joyce Sharples, Susan MacIver, Wendy Hardy and Belinda Harris cast an eye over the CCYP division and their own experience of young people’s counselling in the last three decades
The Northern Ireland story
Kathy Bell explains the process that led to all post-primary schools having on-site counselling
Scottish diary
Anna Hamilton surveys provision for youth counselling north of the border
Agony or ecstasy?
Is being a school counsellor just fine 30 years on?
Janet Edwards writes about her research
Sand unlimited
Eleanor Patrick takes up the case for general sand play in therapy sessions, and four practitioners offer case studies
Weaving patterns of help
The Maypole Project is a crucial package around young people with life-limiting or life-threatening illnesses and their families. Sally Flatteau Taylor reports
Playing, cheating, winning, losing
Information about how the child experiences life is readily available while playing board games with them in therapy. Jill Bellinson explains
ClassroomLink 3
Marie Delaney continues her series on how counsellors can help teachers who are struggling with very difficult pupils
Putting back the pieces
Maggie Mealy writes about the Jigsaw service in Cornwall, working with children who disclose sexual abuse
China in need
Tim Woodhouse explains the theory and multiagency approach to working with a teenager who sexually self-harmed

June 2009

Not home from home
Aida Alayarian describes the needs of refugee and asylum-seeking children and young people, and three practitioners offer case studies
The relationship’s the thing
An excerpt from Kathryn and David Geldard’s book Relationship counselling for children, young people and families – plus a book offer from Sage
Containing not blaming
Graham Music on the challenge of delivering the right kind of therapeutic help in schools
ClassroomLink 2
Marie Delaney continues her new series aimed at helping counsellors to input psychological understanding around difficult-to-teach children
Surviving the crunch
Richard Evans and his colleagues at the charity Kids & Us track how they went from drowning to waving in their counselling service
Interventions for foster children
Kim Golding delves into the complexity of this work, where creativity and eclecticism are needed alongside a multi-agency, holistic stance
Illuminated by lost light
Maggie Mealy looks at the rewards as well as the difficulties for counsellors working with sexually abused young people
Doing what they’ve always done
Research into early adolescents’ use of social networking sites to communicate emotionally. Barbie Clarke reports
Emotionally blocked
Jacky Davies reviews and illustrates her work with emotionally challenged children
Red and green writing
Erica Ruse describes how she nurtures her young clients’ new voices