Posts tagged with 'psychotherapy'
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (2nd post)
15th July 2015
I recently wrote the blog post "New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)" where I introduced two new research articles - Hudson and Fraley's "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change personality traits?" and Elliott et al's "Psychometrics …
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)
14th July 2015
Hudson and Fraley's great new article "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change their personality traits?" still just has "online first" status at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology so it hasn't even got to "hot off the press" yet. It describes such interesting findings. The abstract …
Resource activation: using clients' own strengths in psychotherapy and counseling - affirmation (2nd post)
25th May 2015
I wrote a post a few days ago entitled "Resource activation: using clients' own strengths in psychotherapy and counseling - background (1st post)" giving some of the research basis for suggesting this territory is very relevant for therapists who are pushing to help their clients more effectively. In order to …
Resource activation: using clients' own strengths in psychotherapy and counseling - background (1st post)
20th May 2015
A bit over two years ago I wrote a sequence of three blog posts starting with "New research suggests CBT depression treatment is more effective if we focus on strengths rather than weaknesses". This was triggered by the fascinating paper by Cheavens & colleagues "The compensation and capitalization models: A …
If you see a therapist, how many sessions are you likely to need?
14th April 2015
Is this one question or many? If you see a therapist, how many treatment sessions are you likely to need? Sometimes that's a little like asking "If I go on a journey, how long should I travel for?" Happily though, we do now have enough research evidence to be able …
A project to change longterm interpersonal patterns: finding a therapist
20th February 2015
Needs-Beliefs-Behaviours See too Nissen-Lie et al's "Patient and therapist perspectives on alliance development: Therapists' practice experiences as predictors" with its finding about the toxic effects on client rated therapeutic alliance produced by the "leaking" of unspoken critical therapist. "Humble warmth" "Therapist predictors of early patient-rated working alliance: A multilevel approach" …
Practice-based evidence can complement evidence-based practice so very well
4th February 2015
Yesterday I wrote a blog post "Routine Outcome Monitoring can really help therapists clarify where they need to try harder". Today's post extends this extremely important point. About twenty years ago Howard and colleagues (Howard, Moras, Brill, Martinovich, & Lutz, 1996) introduced a crucial new approach for improving our outcomes. …
Routine Outcome Monitoring can really help therapists clarify where they need to try harder
3rd February 2015
I recently wrote a couple of blog posts - "Psychotherapy (and psychotherapist) outcomes are good but largely stagnant" and "Fascinatingly, therapists themselves vary considerably in their effectiveness". In the second of these posts I commented "A paper published just last month (Green, Barkham et al. 2014) found that the 25% …
Fascinatingly, therapists themselves vary considerably in their effectiveness
21st January 2015
I wrote a post yesterday on the good, but largely stagnant, outcomes currently being achieved in psychotherapy. In today's post I highlight the fascinating finding that psychotherapists themselves vary considerably in their effectiveness. If we can help those with poorer outcomes to begin matching those with better, great gains are …
Psychotherapy (and psychotherapist) outcomes are good but largely stagnant
20th January 2015
I have been asked to write a chapter on the importance of obtaining regular feedback on client progress in a book on psychotherapist self-practice & self-reflection. This initial section (see below) of a draft of the chapter comments on the current state of psychotherapy itself: (Note the ideas in this …