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COUNSELLING AUSTRALIA Volume 13 Number 2 Winter 2013 Research from around the world Revisiting Kirch’s groundbreaking study Play therapy with a transgender child When the mermaid finds her pathway Contents Regulars Special Editorial Philip Armstrong 2 DVD review: Karli Yoga, Volume I Philip Armstrong 26 © Counselling Australia. No part of this publication may be Book review: Clinical Handbook of reproduced without permission. Annual subscription is free Adolescent Addiction Karen Adler 27 to members of the Australian Counselling Association. Published every March, June, September ACA College of Supervisors (COS) register 29 and December. Opinions of contributors and advertisers are not necessarily those of the publisher. The publisher makes no representation or warranty that information contained in articles Research from around the world or advertisements is accurate, nor accepts liability or responsibility for any action arising out of information Revisiting Kirsch’s groundbreaking study about the contained in this journal. Letters to effectiveness of antidepressants 4 the Editor should be clearly marked as such and be a maximum of 250 words. Initial severity and antidepressant benefits: Editor A meta-analysis of data submitted to the Food and Drug Philip Armstrong Administration 5 I.T. Educator Dr. Angela Lewis Editor’s summary Philip Armstrong 6 Editorial Advisory Group Dr Clive Jones Dr Travis Gee The new criteria for mental disorders Maria Konnikova 8 Dr Nadine Pelling Dr Ann Moir-Bussy Bipolar confusion worries medical experts 10 Alison Booth MA(Clin Psych) B.A (Hons) Philip Armstrong Adrian Hellwig M.Bus(com) B.Theol., Dip.Couns Design Great Southern Press Feature Articles Great Southern Press Wool, wonderful wool Dr. Angela Lewis 11 www.gs-press.com.au ISSN 1445-5285 Google trends suggest seasons ACA Management Services And affect all mental health disorders Liat Clark 16 IP Pty Ltd ABN 50 085 535 628 Play therapy with a transgender child Alana Vaney 18 Premier of Queensland’s letter of thanks 23 Want to be published 28 JUNE 2013 | COUNSELLING AUSTRALIA 1 Special editorial ACA will be releasing its long awaited for Healthy Weight CA will be releasing its long our field tests have shown it works and than a pound of cure”. For the younger program for members to deliver in the next few months. awaited for Healthy Weight pro- works well for those who are intent on readers this saying uses the old imperial This program has been put together by a private group of Agram for members to deliver in losing weight. What makes this program currency where a penny is a cent and the next few months. This program has special, well unlike most commercial a pound a dollar. I am sure you get the interdisciplinary professionals who were asked by ACA to design been put together by a private group of programs the core to the program is meaning. The problem as I see it is that interdisciplinary professionals who were working through the emotional elements emotional and mental health issues are a healthy weight management program, based on the latest science and asked by ACA to design a healthy weight of eating and eating habits. This requires ignored by most weight programs that are management program, based on the the program to involve a mental health designed to make a quick dollar through literature on weight issues, which counsellors could deliver. latest science and literature on weight professional not a salesperson selling so superficial weight loss measures. Weight issues, which counsellors could deliver. It called low fat healthy food replacement management is a complex issue that has taken over 2 years to finally complete programs or counting calories. Unless requires programs to be flexible enough to the program which was privately funded. the emotional triggers are dealt with be moulded to meet the individual’s needs, For full disclosure purposes I must put up no amount of calorie counting or meal few programs do this, most work on a Are diet soft drinks a healthy Fears Rockhampton facing my hand and declare that I was heavily replacements are going to work long production line mentality. This is reflected alternative to regular soft drinks? diabetes epidemic involved in this program independently term. I personally believe that any in the lack of use of counsellors by most from ACA, something I am sure most weight program that does not include commercial programs. ABC Health and Wellbeing By William Rollo ACA members who I have spoken to about personal counselling is bound to fail, Australia is now ranked number two in the program are aware of. My passion which is why most dieters end up on the the world for life expectancy (Switzerland It’s the kilojoules in regular soft Diabetes Queensland says more on this subject is well known and I have yo-yo merry go round finally giving in number one) with heart disease being drink that promote weight gain and than 10 per cent of the population in been invited to do a presentation on this and not addressing poor eating habits. the number one killer of Australians, therefore increase your risk of diabetes Rockhampton in the state’s central subject by the Canadian Counselling and The other motivation for pursuing this stroke number three, Colorectal cancer type 2, cardiovascular disease and region has type 2 diabetes. Diabetes Psychotherapy Association at their an- issue is to blunt the potential future cost being number four and diabetes being some cancers. Diet soft drinks contain Queensland is hosting a series of nual conference in Halifax this May. we as tax payers will be paying through number ten, all of these killers are artificial sweeteners rather than forums aiming to tackle the high rate The program will be initially health insurance and Medicare for the heavily impacted on by eating habits sugar, slashing the kilojoule load of diabetes in Rockhampton. It is exclusively licensed to ACA to be made treatment of weight related illnesses as and weight issues. For interest self- (often to zero). So you might think forecasting up to 20,000 Rockhampton available to members to deliver to the they become the leading cause of death harm is the number five biggest killer this would side-step any health residents could have type 2 diabetes general public. This is a clinical program and illness in Australia. As grandma used of Australians with lung cancer being issues. But that doesn’t seem to be the by 2025. At that rate of growth, the case. For starters, research has not organisation says it is an epidemic. It and has no quick and easy fixes however to say “a penny of prevention is better number two. shown regularly drinking artificially says the sharp rise in diabetes cases is sweetened drinks helps prevent weight linked to the high rate of obesity. gain (some studies suggest it does, others not and some suggest it actually The following short articles demonstrate that weight and obesity issues are not restricted to Australia, the last article also promotes weight gain – possibly by demonstrates that advertising can be misleading so the consumer cannot rely on health messages through the media being triggering cravings for more sweet accurate. This in itself is a major issue as many Australians rely on the media for nutritional advice. food generally). What’s more, both regular and diet soft drink are acidic EU Health Ministries Household chores are key for Obesity, a plague for British men and damage tooth enamel, leading to increased decay. They also contain burning calories by Annalisa Lista preservatives, colourings, flavourings One European child in four is obese. by Letizia Orlandi - 03.03.2013 and “other things you basically don’t Here are the data delivered by EU Only a third of British men have need,” says nutritionist Dr Rosemary Health Ministries during the Dublin ‘If you do the laundry and pick up a healthy weight. Precisely, 37%. Stanton. And some recent research Conference held on March 4th and your post, you may lose weight.’ What These are the figures presented in the suggested diet drinks might increase 5th. Statistics show that today an was once a simple sexist comment annual report released by the NHS your risk of type 2 diabetes. Experts obese 12 year-old has an 82% chance could be actually the key to reduce Health and Social Care Information suggest drinking soft drinks of any of becoming obese in adulthood. As a wide-spread obesity among women. Centre (HSCIC). They show a kind only occasionally and sticking to consequence, obesity-related illnesses, To such an extent that, according to worrying increase in obesity over water to quench your thirst the rest of such as diabetes, cancer and some the study published in PLoS One, one the last 20 years, with 65% of men, the time. mental disorders, hit the population of the reasons behind the increase in 58% of women and 10% of children five times more than road accidents obesity among American women is the now classed obese or overweight. and suicides. change of house work models over the The report also reveals that obesity last decades. From 1965 to 2010, time has led to a consequent stark rise The issue of weight and eating habits spent in housework decreased from both in hospital admissions and in cannot be separated from mental health 33,1 to 16,5 hours per week. In terms surgical treatments. In fact, between therefore it stands to reason counsellors of energy, compared with about 666 2011 and 2012, 11, 740 people were not only should be but are integral to the calories burned by women every day in hospitalized, while 8,790 underwent issue of weight management programs.