Posts tagged with 'compassion'
Our life stories: needs, beliefs & behaviours - part three, "behaviours"
13th September 2010
I have already written about the "Needs" and "Beliefs" sections of the "Needs, beliefs & behaviours" diagram. Today's post is about the "Behaviours" section. A fuller post from earlier this year - "Our life stories: needs, beliefs & behavours" - gives further insight into this territory. So the model is …
Our life stories: needs, beliefs & behaviours - part two, "beliefs"
12th September 2010
I posted yesterday on the first, "Needs" section of the "Needs, beliefs, behaviours" diagram (below). Today I want to say a little about the second section of the diagram - "Beliefs". This diagram is downloadable both as a Powerpoint slide and as a PDF file. As I said in the …
Recent research: six studies on money, happiness, romance, leadership, self-compassion & avoidance
26th August 2010
Here are half a dozen recent research studies that caught my eye. Diener et al, in a large sample of people round the world, found intriguingly that wealth tends to increase life satisfaction, while it is the fulfilment of psychological needs - learning, autonomy, using one's skills, respect, and the …
How good is your GP or hospital? Listening to patient experience.
13th June 2010
"Better together: Scotland's patient experience programme" works to use the public's experience of NHS Scotland to improve health services. At the end of April they published provisional results for GP Practices throughout Scotland, and pilot results for a few initial hospitals are beginning to come through as well. I find …
A new book: "Assessing mindfulness & acceptance processes in clients"
6th June 2010
Ruth Baer's new book "Assessing mindfulness & acceptance processes in clients: illuminating the theory & practice of change" has just been published. The dust jacket description states "How does mindfulness work? Thousands of therapists utilize mindfulness-based treatments and have witnessed firsthand the effectiveness of these approaches on clients suffering from …
Peer groups, Cumbria spring group – first morning: a 3 layer view of interpersonal & intrapersonal judgement
6th May 2010
Nearly every year for the last twenty years I've come down to a four day Spring residential "Mixed Group" in Cumbria. I wrote about this group last year and the year before, and I'm also involved with a similar pattern of autumn "Men's Groups". As a psychotherapist who works with …
A better way to measure self-compassion
15th April 2010
(this short form of the self-compassion scale is downloadable both as a PDF file and as a Word doc) It's still early days, but there's an encouraging groundswell of research emerging on compassion and especially self-compassion. See for example this website's recent post on Willem Kuyken et al's "under review" …
BABCP spring meeting: the conference - a highlight (fifth post)
12th April 2010
In yesterday's post I talked generally about the presentations at the BABCP spring conference. Today I'd like to look more closely at what for me was the day's highlight - Willem Kuyken's talk on "Compassion in mindfulness-based cognitive therapy: therapist embodiment and client change". One reason I liked the talk …
BABCP spring meeting: the conference - an overview (fourth post)
11th April 2010
Friday was the "conference" day. A real old fruit salad of presentations. Nearly always I find it hard to stay awake and focused during this kind of "educational event". It does however allow a lot of speakers to throw a lot of information at the audience! The 2007 Marinopoulos et …
Interpersonal group work 2
22nd February 2010
See the earlier blog post "Interpersonal group work 1" for comments and handouts particularly orientated to pre-group assessment. It's usually time very well spent, orientating would-be participants to what interpersonal process groups are likely to involve. This both speeds up the time it takes new group members to start engaging …