Posts tagged with 'cbt'
SIGN guidance on non-pharmaceutical management of depression
28th January 2010
The Scottish Intecollegiate Guidelines Network (SIGN) published their guidance on "Non-pharmaceutical management of depression" today. SIGN comment: "Depression Alliance Scotland proposed the development of this guideline based on feedback from service users who were seeking information about interventions other than prescribed antidepressants which could be helpful in managing their depression. …
Recent research: articles from December journals
7th January 2010
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 13,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Handouts & questionnaires for improved assessment & monitoring of panic disorder
28th December 2009
For quite some time, I've used Katherine Shear's "Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS)" as my main way of assessing and monitoring the severity of panic disorder. I've recently woken up to the fact that there is a specifically designed "Self Report" version of this scale. It is copyrighted, but Dr …
Handouts & questionnaires for outcome tracking: depression, mania, side-effects, anxiety, worry, alcohol, sleep, gambling & more
21st December 2009
Well, well, well ... what a lot of amazing information there is out there on the internet. I was trawling to try to find the copyright position of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale (more on this soon in a future post) when I tumbled into Mark Zimmerman's "Outcome Tracker" website. …
Recent research: six studies on depression - adolescents, heart disease, telephone management, memories, & primary care
10th December 2009
Here are half a dozen recent research papers on depression (all details & abstracts to these studies are listed further down this blog post). The first two are about the well-known Treatment for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). There have been a whole series of research papers published on this …
Recent research: articles from November journals
3rd December 2009
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 13,600 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Recent research: articles from October journals
12th November 2009
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 13,500 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Two good psychology websites: BPS & handouts galore!
8th November 2009
Here are a couple of good psychology websites that I've come across recently. One is the British Psychological Society's Research Digest Blog with its tag line "Bringing you reports on the latest psychology research." The site provides an almost daily, brief description of a particularly interesting recent psychology research paper. …
Updated NICE guidelines on treating depression
5th November 2009
NICE - the UK National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence - recently published guidance on "Depression in adults (update)" and on "Depression with a chronic physical health problem". The "Depression in adults (update)" replaces guidance originally published in 2004 and amended in 2007. The 28 page Quick reference guide …
Recent research: six studies on depression – pregnancy, young children, antidepressant side effects, SAD & CBT, and suicide risk
29th October 2009
Here are half a dozen recent research papers on depression (all details & abstracts to these studies are given further down this blog posting). Yonkers et al's publication is a very welcome one - "The management of depression during pregnancy: a report from the American Psychiatric Association and the American …