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This paper presents an overview of the research on abuse within counselling and psychotherapy. The concept of 'wounded healers' is explored alongside a range of actions that can be taken against abuse. The paper concludes with a discusssion about the integration of research into practice.

Drama, as well as training or therapy, may be employed as a useful research and practice paradigm in working with small groups. In this context, groups may represent a form of "collective art" in Fromm's sense, and stages or forms of idiosyncratic group processes may parallel the unfolding of dramatic perfor mances. The implications of this view for group development as a whole, and for member and leader participation, are explored.

Presented at Urbanization of irrigated land and water transfers: a USCID water management conference on May 28-31, 2008 in Scottsdale, Arizona. ; The HB 1437 Agriculture Water Conservation Program is an innovative way to meet rising municipal demands in Williamson County, Texas, conserve river water used for irrigation, and maintain agriculture productivity. The program provides grants to implement water conservation projects on farms and in LCRA irrigation divisions through a municipal conservation surcharge. In 1999, the Texas Legislature passed House Bill 1437 authorizing the Lower Colorado River Authority to transfer up to 25,000 acre-feet of water per year to Williamson County (through Brazos River Authority (BRA)) under certain conditions including 1) The transfer results in "no net loss" of water to the lower Colorado River basin, and 2) A conservation surcharge on the transferred water is collected from BRA customers to help pay for the conservation projects (currently 25%). Based on BRA water demands, a 7-year plan was developed through engineering studies and public meetings to conserve approximately 3,500 ac-ft/yr of agriculture water, representing a combination of conservation projects including precision leveling and automation of canal gates in irrigation divisions. The grant program, begun in 2006, has provided partial funding to precision level 6,275 acres of farm land. Farms that have participated in this program received a 30% cost share in addition to a 50% cost share from the EQIP program. To date, 4,830 acre-feet of water has been conserved from these grants. A water savings verification program is under development and will be implemented in 2008. Ongoing challenges include revised water demands, savings verification, and interaction with other water projects.

"Increasing attention has been given to the Assimilation Model as an integrative framework for understanding the change process in psychotherapy. This paper contributes to the development of the model by identifying ways in which narrative and discursive practices are involved in the transition to the 'problem statement' stage of assimilation of a problematic experience. The study uses a method of qualitative narrative analysis to construct an interpretive account of the change process occurring in a single case of experiential psychotherapy. The overall process of change in this case is described in terms of two broad phases: building a storyworld and co-construction of a new narrative. The shift to 'naming' the problem is discussed in terms of the operation of a number of narrative micro-processes, including positioning, symbolisation and the co-construction of metaphor themes. The implications of this analysis are discussed." (author's abstract)