Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – second morning: early stages of a group, self-disclosure, & emotional awareness
6th May 2011
I wrote yesterday about arriving at this year's Mixed Group here in Cumbria. Now it's the second morning. Yesterday was the first full day of the group. How was it? As I've written before "Process groups tend to move through a series of developmental stages. These can be described in …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – first morning: beginning, why are we here, & how do I know what I feel?
5th May 2011
First morning of the "Mixed Group". This last week has been such lovely weather. People arriving yesterday evening looking so brown. The forecast had predicted a change to more cloudy weather, and it certainly seems accurate for this morning's rather colder, overcast feel. Good weather to stay indoors for "group …
Recent research: articles from April journals
3rd May 2011
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 15,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - interoceptive/situational exposures and relapse prevention (sixth post)
20th April 2011
I wrote yesterday about "Emotional avoidance, emotion driven behaviours & physical sensation tolerance (fifth post)". Today's is the last post in this series of six on David Barlow & colleagues' new unified protocol for treating anxiety, depression & other related psychogical disorders. It covers the last two modules in their …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - emotional avoidance, edb's & physical sensation tolerance (fifth post)
19th April 2011
This is the fifth in a series of posts about David Barlow & colleagues' new unified protocol for treatment of anxiety, depression & related emotional disorders. The fourth post was on "Emotional awareness training & cognitive reappraisal" and this one is on the fifth & sixth modules in the eight …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - emotional awareness training & cognitive reappraisal (fourth post)
18th April 2011
I have already written three posts about the David Barlow workshop at this year's Spring BABCP conference. The most recent was "Motivation enhancement & treatment rationale" - the first two modules of the new eight module transdiagnostic "Unified protocol" intervention for emotional disorders (including anxiety & depression). Today's post is …
BABCP spring meeting: the conference - an overview & why no uproar (over Ost's findings)?
17th April 2011
So Friday was the "conference proper" - seven talks and a plethora of 'introducers'. Sometimes 'introducers' introducing chair people who then introduced the speakers. What a lot of different faces/different voices. Professor Andrew Steptoe of University College, London, spoke about "Depression, anxiety and physical illness". He talked about the three …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - motivation enhancement & treatment rationale (third post)
16th April 2011
I wrote yesterday about the one day workshop I went to with David Barlow introducing "Unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders". David described an eight module sequence for anxiety, depression and potentially other problems too: 1.) Motivation enhancement for treatment engagement (1/2 to 1 session). 2.) Psychoeducation & …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders - description (second post)
15th April 2011
So yesterday was the first (workshop) day of the two day British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Spring Workshops and Conference. Between arriving from Edinburgh on the sleeper and starting the day, I hunkered down in a cafe for breakfast and wrote some introductory thoughts about the workshop …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders - introduction (first post)
14th April 2011
Just off the sleeper. Slept like a baby - well maybe better, knowing some babies. Now it's two days of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Spring Workshops and Conference. Today it's workshops and we have a choice of half a dozen or so. I've plumped for …