Posts tagged with 'psychotherapy'
Treatment of prolonged grief disorder
26th December 2014
A couple of recent research studies have underlined the value of specific forms of psychotherapy for complicated grief reactions: Shear, M. K., et al. (2014). "Treatment of complicated grief in elderly persons: a randomized clinical trial." JAMA Psychiatry 71(11): 1287-1295. IMPORTANCE: Complicated grief (CG) is a debilitating condition, most prevalent …
Sessional client feedback: a launch pad for improving outcomes
1st November 2014
Counselling & psychotherapy are often helpful. In fact they are more effective than, for example, many interventions in cardiology or ... . Worryingly though ... despite a wealth of emerging research ... there has been little improvement in the outcomes we achieve. The same, of course, could be said about …
Peer residential group, final morning: review, group function & the benefit of working with difficulties (4th post)
9th September 2014
Yesterday we had the final morning of the 'long weekend' three day Scottish Mixed Group. I have already written posts about arriving, and the first and the second full days. This was the fourth year that we had met for these annual get-togethers that run from Friday evening to Monday …
Birmingham BABCP conference: final morning - positive affect in depression, therapy adverse effects & overall review (5th post)
27th July 2014
The last morning of this excellent BABCP conference dawned bright & sunny ... as it has all week. I have particularly enjoyed this year's BABCP get-together. I think this has been due to a combination of factors including presentations that have been personally of real interest, the weather, the University …
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 …
Achieving Clinical Excellence meeting in Amsterdam: second day (2nd post)
6th June 2013
Yesterday was my second full day here in Amsterdam at the "Achieving Clinical Excellence" conference put on by the International Center for Clinical Excellence. The first full day had been a workshop with Scott Miller on "Feedback informed treatment: pushing your clinical effectiveness to the next level". This second day …
Achieving Clinical Excellence meeting in Amsterdam: first day workshop (1st post)
5th June 2013
On Wednesday evening I flew into Amsterdam Schiphol airport for three days of workshop & conference on feedback systems & the development of excellence in psychotherapy. What a fascinating subject area to explore. What a treat. From the airport I caught a train to Amsterdam Zuid and then walked up …
Emotion-focused and narrative therapies
3rd June 2013
"Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, reexperience it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts." Salman Rushdie Tomorrow our little East of …
Keeping up with relevant research
18th March 2013
I average a little over three hours weekly scanning medical and psychological journals on the internet. Typically I zoom through the article titles looking for anything relevant to stress, health & wellbeing. If something seems interesting, I read the article's abstract. I may well then download it to my bibliographic …
Do psychotherapists, doctors and leaders develop "emotional chainmail"? Some ways of building both stability and empathy.
28th February 2013
In the last couple of days I've written two posts on the possibility of developing "emotional chainmail" when faced with repeated experiences of suffering ... "Do psychotherapists, doctors and leaders develop "emotional chainmail"? Description of a possible problem" and "Do psychotherapists, doctors and leaders develop "emotional chainmail"? Two kinds of …