Editorial

This month, the Journal of Psychotherapy and Counselling Psychology Reflections is celebrating its second anniversary with the publication of its fifth issue. The contributions continue to reach the scholarly standards we aim for and include research and theory papers authored by experienced clinicians, academics and trainees. Regular readers of this journal will notice the depth of topics covered. I have taken this opportunity to refresh other aspects of the journal and introduce a couple of new sections. In addition to the usual peer-reviewed articles, there is a section exploring the experience of trainee psychotherapists. These articles offer insights into the challenges students face during their long training. Adam Knowles discusses his experience as a trainee on an integrative training programme, while Ben Scanlan reflects on his own student experience by way of analysing his encounters with angst, annoyance and infantilisation during training. I encourage more therapists to submit brief papers that sketch their own encounters with training.

So to this issue. In the first article, John Nuttall discusses values and how they apply to the psychotherapeutic endeavour. He states that, ‘Values embrace the broader principles associated with living and being in the world’ (p. ). He proposes that supreme values reside in the soul of each psychotherapist and influence the way that they perceive, understand and approach their work.

Michael Worrell's paper addresses a quantitative and qualitative investigation into the experience of trainee high-intensity CBT therapists who engage in a brief training programme concerning ‘other modalities of therapy.’ According to Worrell, ‘[this] paper explores the extent to which participation in this training changes trainees' minds regarding the relevance of these modalities to their practice as CBT therapists’ (p. ). The author believes that a more open dialogue between CBT therapists, IAPT workers and the ‘wider field of psychologica