In a message dated 14/11/01 14:20:09 GMT Standard Time, 
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Dear Amanda, Paul and Bob, thank you for your replies

They did fwd an acknowledgement slip promising a  6 week response, despite 
several phone calls and e-mail I finally rec'd a response which was confusing 
to say the least, an e-mail about a letter they had addressed to me about 
someone else's article!  Needlesss to say I had not received that or the 
corrrect response to mine.

Despite the long wait for the birth of something that you beleive will make a 
significant contribution to your work and that of others, no useful feedback 
was provided at all, except that they are inundated with articles for a 
monthly journal and cant possibly print all of them!.(except of course two 
articles in the same journal by Michale Jacobs - move over darling!!!! )  and 
some boring diatribe on the effect of the counsellors tissue box on the 
client which is hardly cutting edge research.   I have no idea, whether it 
was the chosen subject matter, my style, or whatever..... 

I agree with you Bob it is daunting that the counselling police puppeteer 
their members, are there any other organisations that we could join, that 
publish their own journal.  

I wonder how articles are chosen for publication...any ideas?

Paul where do I locate the journal you mentioned British Journal of 
Counselling and Guidance.

Thanks 
Diana 


<< Hi Diana,
 
 I also wrote a letter to BACP for submission to the journal four months ago
 without response or publication.
 I was expressing concern that our and other students on accredited
 counselling training courses are being charged over £100 joining fee, the
 same as full members - as opposed to the minority of counselling students
 who are enrolled on BACP's own accredited training courses who pay about
 half that.
 Our students are very agitated at in effect not being acknowledged as
 students and I am concerned at the monopolistic and rather manipulative
 pressures to prioritise the different and more expensive BACP accreditation
 over others.
 
 regards
 bob smith
 (coming out of hibernation having completed four year masters and applying
 for UKCP membership).
 birmingham counselling centre
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