Good news for practitioners looking for an easy way to log clinical contact hours: our simple clinical logbooks have been updated for the 2007-08 calendar, academic, and financial years. For the first time, we also have a special version for online practitioners eager to escape the ethical quicksand of reporting online clinical experience in misleading calendar time.

Not enough is known about the potential dangers associated with antidepressant medications, according to the UK’s Mental Health Foundation. The group has responded to the controversy about the GlaxoSmithKline Seroxat case covered in an expose by the Panorama programme.

Happy New Year to all our long-term visitors, and welcome to all our new ones for 2007. And…drum roll, please…editor Greg Mulhauser welcomes his daughter Hannah Sophia into the world, born on Christmas morning.

Singer and songwriter Kathryn Keats shares an ode to her father, journalist John Munger. Keats also includes a poem written by John Munger about his experience of the Second World War, during which he served in the US Army, intercepting and translating Japanese coded communications into English.

Money leads people to play alone, work alone, and put more physical distance between themselves and a new acquaintance, according to a study published in Science magazine. Even very subtle reminders of money appear to exert a tremendous influence on our behaviour and attitudes.

A new project will be occupying Managing Editor Greg Mulhauser for the foreseeable future — and will definitely have the bulk of his attention for 3 months starting 15 December. What could divert so much of his effort from CounsellingResource.com for such awhile?

Frequently a target of criticism over its practitioner accreditation requirements, the BACP recently attempted to clarify its supervision hours guidelines, only to muddy the picture even further. Despite attempts to market it all as ‘quite clear’, the basic mathematics of BACP guidelines lead to some counter-intuitive conclusions.