Posts tagged with 'mindfulness'
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 …
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 …
Boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement by strengthening attachment security: twelve practical suggestions (7-12)
27th March 2011
This blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file. Last week I gave the first six of a dozen ideas for boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement in the blog post "Boosting self-compassion ... twelve practical suggestions (1-6)". Here are a further half dozen ideas. Remember …
Boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement by strengthening attachment security: twelve practical suggestions (1-6)
20th March 2011
This blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file. Research suggests that self-compassion may be as much as ten times more relevant than mindfulness for improvements in anxiety, depression & quality of life (Van Dam, Sheppard et al. 2011), although the two concepts (self-compassion …
Recent research: two studies on relationships, two on body to mind effects, and two on mindfulness
17th February 2011
Here are details of half a dozen recent research papers - two on relationships, two on body to mind effects, and two on mindfulness. Fuller details, links and abstracts of all the studies mentioned are given further down this post. First a couple of relationship studies. Gibb & colleagues reported …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: memory and the autobiographical self 1
10th January 2011
"Why shouldn't truth be stranger than fiction? Fiction, after all, has to make sense." Mark Twain I wrote last month about "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview" saying that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in his recent book - "Emotions and …
Recent research: articles from December journals
6th January 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 15,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 2
3rd January 2011
I wrote an initial blog post last month on "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview". I commented that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and …