Counseling psychology in South Africa is undergoing significant changes, much like the country itself. The authors examine the state of counseling psychology in South Africa through discussion of both its racial history and present-day positions. The history of psychology cannot be devoid of its politicized past, and remnants of its history are found today, though much has changed. Current issues such as HIV/AIDS, educational legacies, and mistrust by the majority population now influence counseling psychology's direction and focus. Training issues become important in a country undergoing such changes, and counseling psychology's relationship to educational psychology and clinical psychology is addressed, along with its role within the indigenous community. Counseling psychology in South Africa is a microcosm for many of the struggles that U.S. counseling psychology faces. It is recommended that counseling psychologists in South Africa become more proactive to be further recognized as a useful entity and better serve community needs. Recognition can be accomplished by better alignment with medicine, forming working groups, becoming more politicized, and emphasizing the rich cultural diversity that exists in the country through training and outreach.

This study sought to explore the impact of ending therapy on counsellors working with children in schools. Five counsellors were interviewed and their responses were analysed using interpretative phenomenological analysis. Four master themes emerged, one of which, empathic identification, is the focus of this paper. The findings of this study suggest that the counsellor's experience of ending therapy can evoke long-term powerful emotions.

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The considerable and sustained boom in personal debt recently has in many countries around the worldled to experiences of over-indebtedness that are associated with very considerable distress and suffering.This article explores critical perspectives that situate personal debt, material deprivation and suffering,and specific ways of knowing and acting, within the context of recent political and economic practices.There is a need to focus on positioning people's experiences of debt within a broader matrix of factors ofnational and international practices and policies, including globalisation, changing labour markets, andpoorly regulated financial industries. These factors appear to have allowed a network of internationalfinancial institutions to adopt practices that have proved successful in creating personal debt. Yet, anindividualised discourse of financial capability has been propagated, configuring personal debt as aproblem of irresponsible individual consumption. In order to explore ways of resisting reactionaryand individualised modes of addressing personal debt, proposals will be made of alternative paradigmsfor responding to personal debt, defined by two dimensions of community psychological practice, withexamples. This article aims to increase collective awareness of the systemic character of debt and thecollective responses required. Copyright © 2014 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd

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