Posts tagged with 'counselling'
Meeting at relational depth: what intrigued me most
25th October 2010
I've already written a couple of blog posts about the workshop I went to on Saturday - "Meeting at relational depth: outline of a 'research' workshop" and "Meeting at relational depth: what does it involve?". However it was the second exercise we were asked to try out that I found …
Meeting at relational depth: what does it involve?
24th October 2010
"A consultation is when the room disappears." David Reilly (physician) On Saturday I went to a course called "Meeting at relational depth: a research workshop". I have already written a first post outlining the day. After staying overnight in Glasgow with a friend who was also coming to the course, …
Meeting at relational depth: outline of a 'research' workshop
23rd October 2010
I'm booked in for a course today with Professor Mick Cooper of the University of Strathclyde entitled "Meeting at relational depth: a research workshop". The publicity blurb reads "This experiential workshop, which Mick Cooper has been running nationally and internationally since the publication of 'Working at relational depth in counselling …
"One in five Britons has consulted a counsellor or psychotherapist"
19th September 2010
I was fascinated by this "One in five Britons ..." article in last month's Observer newspaper. I'm "in the business" and I was still surprised by the findings. Apparently the British Association for Counselling & Psychotherapy (BACP) commissioned an independent polling organization to survey 1,400 British adults. The headline findings …
Recent research: psychologist & doctor impairment & burnout
11th June 2009
"Quis custodiet ipsos custodes?" Juvenal The last-but-one edition of the journal Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice published several articles on psychologist stress and burnout. Interestingly the edition is currently available with full text articles downloadable for free. Smith and Moss review the psychologist impairment literature (see below for all abstracts …
Draft SIGN non-pharmacological depression treatments guideline, 7th post: effectiveness of psychological therapies 2
24th September 2008
This is the 7th blog post in a series reviewing the recent Scottish Intercollegiate Guideline Network's (SIGN) draft guideline for "Non-pharmacological management of depression". I gave more background details in the first post of the series. This post covers the third session of the guideline presentation seminar. The session was …