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Posts tagged with 'research'

Recent research: articles from winter 2015/16 journals

17th February 2016

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains nearly 23,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Cognitive therapy versus exposure therapy for hypochondriasis (health anxiety): A randomized controlled trial

18th November 2015

Excessive health anxiety is associated with high levels of distress, disability and increased health care use. It is common. A recent study - "Health anxiety in Australia: prevalence, comorbidity, disability and service use" - reported "Health anxiety affects approximately 5.7% of the Australian population across the lifespan and 3.4% met …

Recent research: articles from late summer 2015 journals

10th November 2015

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains well over 22,500 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant …

Recent research: articles from summer 2015 journals

29th August 2015

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains well over 22,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant …

Recent research: articles from spring 2015 journals

29th June 2015

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains over 22,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Keeping up with research: does it make any difference to our practice?

26th June 2015

I'm running a one day workshop in Belfast this weekend entitled "Keeping up with research: does it make any difference to our practice?". Here's a downloadable copy of the 50 or so slide initial Powerpoint presentation. I'll also be giving the trainee cognitive therapists a series of exercises to try. …

Recent research: articles from early 2015 journals

28th April 2015

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains over 21,800 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Recent research: articles from winter journals

24th February 2015

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - Endnote - which currently contains over 21,600 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …

Some current research evidence for therapeutic uses of reading & writing (2nd post)

13th January 2015

Yesterday's post and today's are combined and downloadable as a Word doc or as a PDF file. therapeutic benefits from writing: Quite often “therapeutic” approaches that primarily involve reading also include writing components and vice-versa. Probably the most extensively studied form of therapeutic writing is the large body of research …

Some current research evidence for therapeutic uses of reading & writing (1st post)

12th January 2015

I was asked by a friend to write a short piece on research evidence backing up therapeutic uses of reading & writing to be used in a local initiative supporting health workers in a diverse range of settings. Today's and tomorrow's post give the piece with hyperlinks to the various …