Posts tagged with 'trauma'
Recent research: two studies on panic, two on attention training for anxiety disorders, and three on the effects of child abuse
19th November 2009
Here are seven recent papers on panic, attention training, and the effects of childhood sexual abuse (all details & abstracts to these studies are listed further down this blog post). Pfaltz & colleagues report on a novel ambulatory respiratory monitoring system that seems to demonstrate that panic sufferers are not …
Recent research: NICE guidance on recognition of child maltreatment & report of the Task Force on neck pain
3rd September 2009
Here are a disparate pair of subjects for a research update. One is the recent NICE guideline on " ... alerting features in children and young people (under 18 years) of: physical, sexual and emotional abuse, neglect, fabricated or induced illness." I have posted on NICE and its guidelines before. …
Writing - positive pasts & best futures
9th August 2009
If you would like a printable handout of this blog post click here. There is lots of research - approaching two hundred studies - on the physical and mental benefits of writing about emotional upheavals in our lives. Professor Jamie Pennebaker gives further details of this approach on his excellent …
The broadening, evidence-based relevance of emotional processing
13th May 2009
"There's nothing so practical as a good theory". Kurt Lewin I wrote yesterday about the "triangle of emotions". I am a medical doctor and accredited cognitive behavioural psychotherapist. I was drawn to CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) because I wanted to help people as effectively as possible. When I started to …
Peer groups: Cumbria spring group reflection - "the triangle of emotions"
12th May 2009
Like many cognitively-orientated therapists who have observed the power of charged emotional work, I've struggled to integrate these approaches in ways that are evidence-based and intellectually rigorous. As they used to say in the early groups I was involved with in the 1970's - "Lose your head and come to …
Peer groups: Cumbria spring group – cathartic work from the outside
11th May 2009
So I wrote yesterday about the cathartic, emotion-focussed work that I went through. In their classic 1973 book "Encounter groups: first facts" the authors, Lieberman, Yalom and Miles, describe their major research on the potential benefits of these kinds of groups. One of their findings was that people who benefited …
Peer groups: Cumbria spring group – cathartic work from the inside
10th May 2009
I wrote yesterday about a horrid feeling of my heart "drying out" and closing. Although it seemed hard to do without possibly upsetting other people badly, I was very clear that I would share what was going on in me. These kinds of groups need honesty to flourish - otherwise …
Recent research: half a dozen papers relevant to psychotherapy
22nd January 2009
Here are half a dozen papers relevant to psychotherapy. The first two throw some light on the question of whether it matters which form of established psychotherapy one uses to treat a particular depression sufferer - bearing in mind Cuijpers et al's recent meta-analysis suggesting that " ... there are …
Handouts & questionnaires for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - second post
5th January 2009
I posted half a dozen assessment questionnaires for PTSD and intrusive memories a week ago. Here are further handouts and information about intrusive memories, trauma, imagery and PTSD. Flowcharts 1 & 2 (Ehlers & Clark) - here are a couple of Powerpoint slides that - although in colour - print …
Handouts & questionnaires for posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) - first post
29th December 2008
PLEASE NOTE: This blog post dates back to December 2008. All the questionnaires on this page, updated scoring details for the IES-R, the widely used Posttraumatic Cognitions Inventory, descriptions of how to do "reliving" of the trauma, written accounts, and site visits, as well as a series of other updated …