Posts tagged with 'psychotherapy'
36 CBT & psychotherapy relevant abstracts: July '17 newsletter
25th July 2017
This blog post is downloadable as a Word doc. Ali, S., L. Rhodes, et al. (2017). "How durable is the effect of low intensity CBT for depression and anxiety? Remission and relapse in a longitudinal cohort study." Behaviour Research and Therapy 94: 1-8. http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0005796717300840 AbstractBackground Depression and anxiety disorders are …
Complicated grief is worryingly common, poorly recognised & inadequately treated - what can we do about this?
4th May 2017
Complicated grief is ... More to follow ...
Some counsellors & psychotherapists are more effective than others
1st October 2016
This is the third in a sequence of blog posts - "Therapist drift: black heresy or red herring - maybe not so important?", "Psychotherapy is helpful but has developed shockingly poorly over the last 30 years" and now this one "Some counsellors & psychotherapists are more effective than others." As …
Psychotherapy is helpful but has developed shockingly poorly over the last thirty years
28th September 2016
I wrote a blog post recently on "Therapist drift: black heresy or red herring?" where I argued that current research evidence does not suggest that "therapist drift" is of much significance for either increasing or decreasing the effectiveness of psychotherapy. As you can see from the slide below though, I …
Therapist drift: black heresy or red herring - maybe not so important?
22nd September 2016
I'm scheduled to give a talk at the Psychologists Protection Society AGM entitled "Therapist drift: black heresy or red herring?". It seems the society has a Continuing Professional Development arm. They invite people to give lectures (there are a couple at this AGM) and then post them onto their Professional …
Non-drug treatments for bipolar disorder (1st post) - the value of psychotherapy
5th April 2016
I am due to give a talk for the Lothian branch of "Bipolar Scotland" on "Recent research on non-drug treatments for bipolar disorder". Here is the downloadable Powerpoint presentation (with pictures removed to reduce the size of the file) and here is a slide illustrating the main points that I …
Truly excellent therapists have "grace under interpersonal pressure" - How can we assess ourselves?
19th March 2016
I wrote a post recently called "Truly excellent therapists have 'grace under interpersonal pressure - Fascinating new research". I mentioned the classic 2009 Timothy Anderson paper "Therapist effects: facilitative interpersonal skills as a predictor of therapist success". I then went on to describe three great new additions to this literature …
Truly excellent therapists have "grace under interpersonal pressure" - Fascinating new research
15th March 2016
Hemingway wrote "Courage is grace under pressure". New research underlines that "grace under interpersonal pressure" is a key ability of truly excellent therapists. Study after study has shown that psychotherapists vary considerably in how helpful they are for their clients. The slide below shows a typical set of findings: (downloadable …
Personal ‘retreat’: third reflection – quietening down ... and do we need time to change?
22nd February 2016
I've already written a couple of blog posts during my "retreat" at this Study Centre - "Setting the scene" and "Settling & questioning". Now it's the start of the third day … yesterday was a strange mix of tastes. Out on a couple of walks … for over three hours …
Warwick BABCP conference: 1st morning - trauma memories & a master presentation on four decades of outcome research (2nd post)
22nd July 2015
Yesterday I blogged about the pre-conference workshop I attended on "Anger dysregulation". Today was the first full day of the conference proper. Breakfast illustrated the kind of helpful, fun conversation that can emerge at this kind of event. I talked to Fiona McFarlene & Tara Murphy who were going on …