Posts tagged with 'therapeutic alliance'
Psychotherapists & counsellors who don't monitor their outcomes are at risk of being both incompetent & potentially dangerous
1st November 2011
I find the recent paper by Kraus & colleagues a bit scary - "Therapist effectiveness: Implications for accountability and patient care" - with its abstract reading "Significant therapist variability has been demonstrated in both psychotherapy outcomes and process (e.g., the working alliance). In an attempt to provide prevalence estimates of …
Orlinsky & Ronnestad's "How psychotherapists develop": what maintains commitment, fascination & care in our work?
9th September 2011
I wrote a few days ago about Orlinsky & Ronnestad's very interesting book "How psychotherapists develop: a study of therapeutic work and professional growth" which reports on their 15 year study of nearly 5,000 psychotherapists in a dozen countries. I said that when describing the main findings from their study …
Orlinsky & Ronnestad's "How psychotherapists develop: a study of therapeutic work and professional growth"
27th August 2011
In my blog post about Barry Duncan's book "On becoming a better therapist", I mentioned three major influences that had helped form that work. I've already written about the first two - "The heart & soul of change: delivering what works in therapy (2nd edition)" and "The Norway feedback project: …
The Norway feedback project: a clear and sensible way to make psychotherapy more helpful
25th August 2011
I wrote a few days ago about Barry Duncan's interesting book "On becoming a better therapist". Duncan cited three major influences that had helped to form the book. The first was his involvement as an editor of the recently published, multi-authored "The heart and soul of change: delivering what works …
"The heart & soul of change: delivering what works in therapy (2nd edition)"
23rd August 2011
I wrote a few days ago about Barry Duncan's recent book "On becoming a better therapist". Duncan cites three major influences shaping the book. One, he said, has been his involvement as an editor in the recently published, multi-authored "The heart and soul of change: delivering what works in therapy". …
Barry Duncan's book "On becoming a better therapist"
16th August 2011
Last month I wrote the post "What shall we do about the fact that there are supershrinks and pseudoshrinks?" on Michael Lambert's very challenging plenary presentation at the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies' annual conference. Then in the final post that I wrote about the meeting - "The …
Guildford BABCP conference: the four main areas I want to use clinically after this conference (eighth post)
28th July 2011
I've already written a series of seven blog posts on this year's BABCP conference. What are the key points I want to take away? I think they centre around four areas. Most important for me is what's been triggered by Michael Lambert's presentation on "Supershrinks and pseudoshrinks" . Secondly, a …
Proposal for a BABCP special interest group on compassion
30th June 2011
The British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) encourages the formation of Special Interest Groups (SIG's) in areas that members want to particularly focus on. There has been discussion recently about a possible SIG on Compassion. If you're a member of the BABCP and you would like to be …
Setting up a therapists' support group 2
25th January 2011
I wrote yesterday about the email that was sent out last autumn asking several fellow psychotherapists up here in Edinburgh whether they would be interested in forming a Therapists' Support Group. What was some of the thinking behind this initiative? Back in 2008 I lectured at the British Association for …
Setting up a therapists' support group 1
24th January 2011
Seven of us got together yesterday afternoon to talk about possibly setting up some kind of therapists' support group. We're all therapists ourselves, and some of us are close to or on the mature side of 60. All male therapists, so we're kind of "the Grizzlies". Why do it? It's …