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Posts tagged with 'cbt'

Therapeutic cross-breeding: EFT's approach to self-interruption splits applied to outdated coping modes in schema therapy

20th March 2013

"The walls we build to protect ourselves become the prisons in which we live" Alice Miller (adapted) Here's a blog post for "the anoraks"! I mean that this post is mostly going to interest a rather limited group of psychotherapists but, hey, here goes. This evening I'm due to go …

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 …

Recent research: articles from February journals

4th March 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 over 19,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Major new research shows how psychotherapy can help those struggling with antidepressant-resistant depression: more detail

9th February 2013

I wrote an initial post yesterday on the very interesting recent Lancet paper "Cognitive behavioural therapy as an adjunct to pharmacotherapy for primary care based patients with treatment resistant depression: Results of the CoBalT randomised controlled trial". In today's post I want to give a little more context to this …

Major new research shows how psychotherapy can help those struggling with antidepressant-resistant depression: overview

8th February 2013

Major new research published in the Lancet last week gives hope to those struggling with antidepressant-resistant depression. Nicola Wiles and 15 co-authors have just reported on this two year study involving 469 patients with treatment-resistant depression seen in 73 UK general practices. The abstract of their paper "Cognitive behavioural therapy …

Recent research: articles from January journals

5th February 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 over 19,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

New research suggests CBT depression treatment is more effective if we focus on strengths rather than weaknesses (3rd post)

11th January 2013

I do enjoy writing these blog posts ... real fun having the opportunity to think around subjects that currently intrigue me. So in the first post in this sequence on the value of a therapeutic focus on strengths rather than weaknesses we looked fairly broadly at this area. In the …

New research suggests CBT depression treatment is more effective if we focus on strengths rather than weaknesses (2nd post)

9th January 2013

I wrote an initial post on "New research suggests ... focus on strengths rather than weaknesses" a couple of days ago. I discussed various reasons for thinking that better matching of patients to more personalized treatments could be helpful (although difficult) and looked as well at several research studies that …

New research suggests CBT depression treatment is more effective if we focus on strengths rather than weaknesses (1st post)

7th January 2013

In 2010 Simon & Perlis highlighted the importance of being better able to match depression sufferers to treatment approaches that were more likely to benefit them. In their paper "Personalized medicine for depression: Can we match patients with treatments?", they wrote: "Response to specific depression treatments varies widely among individuals. …

Recent research: articles from December journals

3rd January 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 over 18,900 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …