Posts tagged with 'cbt'
Birmingham BABCP conference: second day - NICE, emotion regulation, and exposure with depression & with cycloserine (4th post)
25th July 2014
So yesterday was the second full day of the BABCP conference. I have already written initial blog posts about the first day of the conference and about the pre-conference workshop I went to on emotion regulation. This is a bit of a pre-breakfast scamper over yesterday's experiences. As with the …
Assessment & monitoring questionnaires for CBT treatment of social anxiety disorder
25th September 2013
I went to a workshop on the treatment of social anxiety disorder with David Clark in July. It was very helpful. I've listed assessment & monitoring questionnaires that he recommended below: As a general measure to assess and track changes in social anxiety severity, the freely available Social Phobia Inventory …
Self-practice, Self-reflection (SP/SR) & David Clark's treatment for social anxiety: assessment (2nd post)
23rd September 2013
Yesterday I wrote an introductory post on using self-practice & self-reflection (SP/SR) to improve my understanding of David Clark's treatment for social anxiety. In today's post I want to look at assessment - of social anxiety disorder, of skill with Clark's CBT approach, and at SP/SR initiation. Back in May, …
Building on our strengths
4th July 2013
A few months ago I wrote a series of three blog posts on the theme "New research suggests CBT depression treatment is more effective if we focus on strengths rather than weaknesses". Possible points ... the series of studies that have suggested that a strength focus is more helpful (the …
New NICE guidance on the recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder (2nd post)
30th May 2013
I wrote an initial blog post yesterday on this month's new NICE guideline on "Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment". In today's post I would like to focus more on the guideline's very interesting treatment recommendations. Fascinatingly this NICE guidance comes down fair & square on the side of …
New NICE guidance on the recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder (1st post)
29th May 2013
The National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) have just published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on "Social anxiety disorder: recognition, assessment and treatment". They state: "This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the recognition, assessment and treatment of social anxiety disorder in children and young people (from school …
BABCP spring meeting: CBASP & chronic depression, therapist support, mindfulness & health anxiety, and intrusions & control
5th May 2013
In the last few days I have written a series of posts about the BABCP Spring Conference & Workshops in Belfast - the most recent being "BABCP spring meeting: Arnoud Arntz on schema therapy for personality disorders". Besides Arntz's presentations, the two highlights of this Belfast meeting for me were …
Recent research: articles from April journals
1st May 2013
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 19,600 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
BABCP spring meeting: workshop and conference - an introduction (1st post)
6th April 2013
I have just been in Belfast for the BABCP Spring workshops & conference. My mind is still buzzing from all the input. It was exciting. I went to Arnoud Arntz's workshop on Schema-Focused Therapy. I have been to several training days with Arnoud before, but it was helpful getting an …
Recent research: articles from March journals
3rd April 2013
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 19,500 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …