As I sit down to write this editorial, I am aware that it’s just under a week since the result of the General Election in the UK became clear from the moment that the exit poll was announced. It has been a result which has highlighted the emotional impact of the external environment upon our lives and upon our internal worlds. The anger and grief within the Labour party has been palpable, and the sense of triumph and power within the re-elected government has been evidenced by the Prime minister’s visit to the Sedgefield constituency which had been the parliamentary seat of a previous and electorally successful Labour Prime Minister. A sense of deflation amongst Liberal Democrats and elation within the ranks of the Scottish National Party reveals a little more of the emotional landscape and the repercussions of the result. Whilst in Northern Ireland and Wales the emotional impact of the result perhaps requires a more subtle discernment. The relationship between the external environment and the internal world of the individual is a recurrent theme in the articles that appear in this Journal and it is one that perhaps unsurprisingly informs many of the articles and reviews that appear in this issue. A neoliberal view of the individual and one that minimises the impact of the external environment and society upon the development of the self throughout the lifespan seems still to be in the ascendency within the wider social and cultural contexts in which we work. The election result, notwithstanding the more hopeful indications of a return to ‘one nation’ aspirations, seems to provide evidence of this continuing ascendency. In the months leading up to the General election the border on the Island of Ireland and the implications of the Brexit process on the continuing stability of the peace process and the Good Friday agreement had taken centre stage in many of the parliamentary debates and votes and negotiations with the European Union. The first article in the main section of the Journal is by Bea Gavin whose primary affiliation is the University of Dublin in Ireland. It is entitled ‘Short contract student counselling, in a neo-liberal world.’ She describes the explosion of demand for Student Counselling in the context of austerity, financial upheaval and spending cuts, themes which will be as familiar in the UK as in Ireland. The research study that forms the centre of the article focusses upon the practice of offering short-term contracts of usually 6 sessions to all students irrespective of need. She points out that the study is not intended to be a critique of brief therapy per se but rather the application of a standardised short-term model without thoughtfully addressing the need for greater variability depending upon the need of the student. Managed and stepped care developments and manualised forms of brief therapy often delivered by practitioners with very limited Psychodynamic Practice, 2020 Vol. 26, No. 1, 1–6, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2020.1709946

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当我坐下来写这篇社论时，我知道距离英国大选结果从出口民意调查宣布的那一刻起就已经不到一周了。这一结果突出了外部环境对我们生活和内部世界的情感影响。劳动党内的愤怒和悲伤是可明显的，而首次驻政府内部的胜利和权力的感觉已经证明，总理访问苏尔德菲尔德选区是一个以前和选举成功劳动的议会所在地总理。自由民主党的通缩感和苏格兰民族党内部的兴高采烈，揭示了更多的情感景观和结果的影响。而在北爱尔兰和威尔士，结果的情感影响可能需要更微妙的洞察力。外部环境与个人内部世界之间的关系是本期刊上出现的文章中反复出现的主题，这一主题可能毫不奇怪地影响了本期出现的许多文章和评论。在我们工作的更广泛的社会和文化背景下，一种新自由主义的个人观点以及一种将外部环境和社会对自我整个生命周期发展的影响最小化的观点似乎仍然处于优势地位。尽管有更多迹象表明回归“一个国家”的愿望更有希望，但选举结果似乎提供了这种持续优势的证据。在大选前的几个月里，爱尔兰岛的边界以及英国脱欧进程对和平进程和耶稣受难日协议持续稳定的影响在许多议会辩论、投票和谈判中占据了中心位置与欧盟。该期刊主要部分的第一篇文章是 Bea Gavin 撰写的，其主要隶属于爱尔兰都柏林大学。它的标题是“新自由主义世界中的短期学生辅导”。她描述了在紧缩、金融动荡和削减开支的背景下对学生咨询的需求激增，这些主题在英国和爱尔兰一样熟悉。构成本文中心的研究性研究侧重于向所有学生提供通常为 6 节课的短期合同而不管其需要的做法。她指出，这项研究的目的不是对短期治疗本身的批评，而是对标准化短期模型的应用，而没有根据学生的需要仔细解决对更大可变性的需求。管理和阶梯式护理发展和手动形式的简短治疗通常由心理动力学实践非常有限的从业者提供，2020 年卷。26, No. 1, 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2020.1709946 她指出，这项研究的目的不是对短期治疗本身的批评，而是对标准化短期模型的应用，而没有根据学生的需要仔细解决对更大可变性的需求。管理和阶梯式护理发展和手动形式的简短治疗通常由心理动力学实践非常有限的从业者提供，2020 年卷。26, No. 1, 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2020.1709946 她指出，这项研究的目的不是对短期治疗本身的批评，而是对标准化短期模型的应用，而没有根据学生的需要仔细解决对更大可变性的需求。管理和阶梯式护理发展和手动形式的简短治疗通常由心理动力学实践非常有限的从业者提供，2020 年卷。26, No. 1, 1-6, https://doi.org/10.1080/14753634.2020.1709946