Posts tagged with 'imagery'
Leeds BABCP conference: therapeutic metaphors & stories (6th post)
2nd July 2012
I have already written about the pre-conference workshop I attended (on Fatigue) and the the first full day of the conference proper. Today's post looks at the second day of this annual BABCP get-together. As is true for all three days of the full conference, there are typically 15 or …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD: site visit & discrimination (7th post)
6th June 2012
The previous post in this sequence reflecting on a trauma-focused CBT workshop looked in some detail at imaginal reliving/revisiting. This seventh & final post more briefly describes "site visits" and "discrimination training". Nick Grey, who ran the workshop, said that there are four ways that he works with trauma memories …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - imagined "reliving" (6th post)
25th May 2012
(A printable copy of this blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file) This is the sixth post about this workshop on CBT memory-focused treatment for adults with PTSD. Earlier posts have looked at the workshop overall, discussed treatment structure, explored application for "non-PTSD …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (eighth post): internal critic dialogues - practice points
24th February 2012
In the last post on this Emotion-focused therapy workshop series that I wrote, I discussed key background research on using EFT methods to work with people's "internal critics". In today's post, I'd like to be a bit more practical. So initially I note some general advice on how to structure …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (seventh post): internal critic dialogues - background research
22nd February 2012
I wrote yesterday about the morning session of this EFT training day in the post "Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (sixth post): a method for understanding puzzling reactions". In the afternoon we explored "Working with self-criticism/depressive splits". As Greenberg & Angus write in their book "Working with narrative in emotion-focused therapy" …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (sixth post): a method for understanding puzzling reactions
21st February 2012
Last Saturday was the fourth day of this seven seminar "Emotion-focused psychotherapy: Level 2 workshop series" that I'm going to at Glasgow's Jordanhill campus. I took my bike on the train from Edinburgh and then cycled along the canal and in past Gartnavel Hospital. There was a woodpecker chipping away …
Boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement by strengthening attachment security: twelve practical suggestions (7-12)
27th March 2011
This blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file. Last week I gave the first six of a dozen ideas for boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement in the blog post "Boosting self-compassion ... twelve practical suggestions (1-6)". Here are a further half dozen ideas. Remember …
Boosting self-compassion & self-encouragement by strengthening attachment security: twelve practical suggestions (1-6)
20th March 2011
This blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file. Research suggests that self-compassion may be as much as ten times more relevant than mindfulness for improvements in anxiety, depression & quality of life (Van Dam, Sheppard et al. 2011), although the two concepts (self-compassion …
Behavioural systems (attachment, care giving, exploration, sex & power): using imagery & compassion to fine tune them
13th March 2011
A week ago I wrote a post "Behavioural systems (attachment, care giving, exploration, sex & power): hyperactivated, hypoactivated or just about right?" where I talked about Shaver & Mikulincer's model of five behavioural systems - care seeking, care giving, exploration, sex & power - which ideally fire up appropriately when …
Therapeutic writing & speaking: inspiration from values (specific instructions)
18th December 2010
See the two earlier blog posts - "Therapeutic writing & speaking: inspiration from values (background information)" and "Therapeutic writing & speaking: inspiration from values (how-to-do-it)" for fuller details of these self-affirmation, self-transcendence approaches. This "instructions" post is downloadable as a Word doc. introduction: Affirming key personal values and life areas …