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Posts tagged with 'anxiety'

Guildford BABCP conference: pre-conference workshop on couple therapy with Don Baucom (first post)

21st July 2011

The 39th British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference is in Guildford at the University of Surrey this year. As usual it's preceded by a choice of pre-conference workshops. Two of the twenty two initially on offer have been cancelled, but there's still a wealth of options. I've …

New NICE guidance on common mental disorders: identification and pathways to care

26th May 2011

This month the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on "Common mental disorders: identification and pathways to care". The description reads "This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of adults who have common mental health disorders, with a …

BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - interoceptive/situational exposures and relapse prevention (sixth post)

20th April 2011

I wrote yesterday about "Emotional avoidance, emotion driven behaviours & physical sensation tolerance (fifth post)". Today's is the last post in this series of six on David Barlow & colleagues' new unified protocol for treating anxiety, depression & other related psychogical disorders. It covers the last two modules in their …

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 …

BABCP spring meeting: the conference - an overview & why no uproar (over Ost's findings)?

17th April 2011

So Friday was the "conference proper" - seven talks and a plethora of 'introducers'. Sometimes 'introducers' introducing chair people who then introduced the speakers. What a lot of different faces/different voices. Professor Andrew Steptoe of University College, London, spoke about "Depression, anxiety and physical illness". He talked about the three …

BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - motivation enhancement & treatment rationale (third post)

16th April 2011

I wrote yesterday about the one day workshop I went to with David Barlow introducing "Unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders". David described an eight module sequence for anxiety, depression and potentially other problems too: 1.) Motivation enhancement for treatment engagement (1/2 to 1 session). 2.) Psychoeducation & …

BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders - description (second post)

15th April 2011

So yesterday was the first (workshop) day of the two day British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Spring Workshops and Conference. Between arriving from Edinburgh on the sleeper and starting the day, I hunkered down in a cafe for breakfast and wrote some introductory thoughts about the workshop …

BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders - introduction (first post)

14th April 2011

Just off the sleeper. Slept like a baby - well maybe better, knowing some babies. Now it's two days of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Spring Workshops and Conference. Today it's workshops and we have a choice of half a dozen or so. I've plumped for …

Recent research: three studies on CBT, one on implementation intentions and two on compassion

17th March 2011

Here are details of half a dozen recent research papers - three on CBT, one on implementation intentions (and CBT), and two on compassion. Fuller details, links and abstracts of all the studies mentioned are given further down this post. The first, by Gulliksson et al, is "Randomized Controlled Trial …