Self-practice, Self-reflection (SP/SR) & David Clark's treatment for social anxiety: personal aims (3rd post)
12th October 2013
I have recently written a series of three blog posts on David Clark's very impressive cognitive therapy treatment for social anxiety disorder. One of the posts is very practical, giving ten or so relevant downloadable questionnaires & handouts - see "Assessment & monitoring questionnaires for CBT treatment of social anxiety …
Improving therapeutic success rates: UK IAPT data gives us a clearer set of targets
9th October 2013
Common sense on improving outcomes: It only takes a little reflection to realise that, if we want to become more successful at doing something, it’s likely to help immensely if we know where we’re starting and can track if we’re improving or not. The research literature is very clear about …
Recent research: articles from September journals
7th October 2013
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 20,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
BABCP Scotland autumn conference: Paul Salkovskis "Master class for health anxiety & unexplained medical symptoms" (1st post)
26th September 2013
The Scottish branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) organized a two day autumn conference over the 12th & 13th of September on "Current trends in CBT". Interestingly what was on offer consisted almost entirely of workshops (apart from one brief symposium on the first evening). …
Assessment & monitoring questionnaires for CBT treatment of social anxiety disorder
25th September 2013
I went to a workshop on the treatment of social anxiety disorder with David Clark in July. It was very helpful. I've listed assessment & monitoring questionnaires that he recommended below: As a general measure to assess and track changes in social anxiety severity, the freely available Social Phobia Inventory …
Self-practice, Self-reflection (SP/SR) & David Clark's treatment for social anxiety: assessment (2nd post)
23rd September 2013
Yesterday I wrote an introductory post on using self-practice & self-reflection (SP/SR) to improve my understanding of David Clark's treatment for social anxiety. In today's post I want to look at assessment - of social anxiety disorder, of skill with Clark's CBT approach, and at SP/SR initiation. Back in May, …
Self-practice, Self-reflection (SP/SR) & David Clark's treatment for social anxiety: introduction (1st post)
22nd September 2013
Self-practice/Self-reflection (SP/SR) is an approach to training in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) that involves practising CBT methods on oneself (self-practice - SP) and then reflecting on what one can learn from this experience (self-reflection - SR). SP/SR is at the interface between more standard training approaches (such as lectures, videos, role …
A startlingly effective way to reduce interpersonal conflict and distress - discussion & broader applications
19th September 2013
(this post is downloadable both as a PDF file and as a Word doc) Yesterday I wrote a blog post on the very interesting & encouraging recent research paper "A brief intervention to promote conflict reappraisal preserves marital quality over time" which introduces a simple reappraisal method with great promise …
A startlingly effective way to reduce interpersonal conflict and distress - the intervention & results described
18th September 2013
(this post is downloadable both as a PDF file and as a Word doc) The recent research paper "A brief intervention to promote conflict reappraisal preserves marital quality over time" describes a startlingly effective way to reduce interpersonal conflict and distress. The results are clearly extremely relevant for anyone in …
Recent research: articles from summer journals
10th September 2013
I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 20,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …