Posts tagged with 'emotions'
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - interoceptive/situational exposures and relapse prevention (sixth post)
20th April 2011
I wrote yesterday about "Emotional avoidance, emotion driven behaviours & physical sensation tolerance (fifth post)". Today's is the last post in this series of six on David Barlow & colleagues' new unified protocol for treating anxiety, depression & other related psychogical disorders. It covers the last two modules in their …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - emotional avoidance, edb's & physical sensation tolerance (fifth post)
19th April 2011
This is the fifth in a series of posts about David Barlow & colleagues' new unified protocol for treatment of anxiety, depression & related emotional disorders. The fourth post was on "Emotional awareness training & cognitive reappraisal" and this one is on the fifth & sixth modules in the eight …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - emotional awareness training & cognitive reappraisal (fourth post)
18th April 2011
I have already written three posts about the David Barlow workshop at this year's Spring BABCP conference. The most recent was "Motivation enhancement & treatment rationale" - the first two modules of the new eight module transdiagnostic "Unified protocol" intervention for emotional disorders (including anxiety & depression). Today's post is …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol - motivation enhancement & treatment rationale (third post)
16th April 2011
I wrote yesterday about the one day workshop I went to with David Barlow introducing "Unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders". David described an eight module sequence for anxiety, depression and potentially other problems too: 1.) Motivation enhancement for treatment engagement (1/2 to 1 session). 2.) Psychoeducation & …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders - description (second post)
15th April 2011
So yesterday was the first (workshop) day of the two day British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Spring Workshops and Conference. Between arriving from Edinburgh on the sleeper and starting the day, I hunkered down in a cafe for breakfast and wrote some introductory thoughts about the workshop …
BABCP spring meeting: David Barlow's unified protocol for the treatment of emotional disorders - introduction (first post)
14th April 2011
Just off the sleeper. Slept like a baby - well maybe better, knowing some babies. Now it's two days of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Spring Workshops and Conference. Today it's workshops and we have a choice of half a dozen or so. I've plumped for …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 2
3rd January 2011
I wrote an initial blog post last month on "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview". I commented that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and …
Antonio Damasio’s “Self comes to mind”: emotions and the body 1
20th December 2010
I wrote last week about "Antonio Damasio's 'Self comes to mind': overview" saying that I wanted to think a bit more about three of the areas covered in the book - "Emotions and the body", "Memory and the autobiographical self" and "Mindfulness, protoself, core and autobiographical self". I mentioned that …
The 'bus driver' is warm-blooded: integrating mindfulness & emotion 2
21st November 2010
I wrote yesterday about a couple of 'notes of caution' when using mindfulness approaches and the "The bus driver metaphor". I pointed out that many primary emotions & constructive thoughts help energise and direct us towards healthy goals. I also mentioned the importance of integrating head & heart in mindfulness …
The 'bus driver' is warm-blooded: integrating mindfulness & emotion 1
20th November 2010
These posts on "The bus driver is warm-blooded" are downloadable as both Word and PDF handouts. In a companion post - "The bus driver metaphor" - I've talked about how valuable mindfulness can be when coping with worry, rumination and other unhelpful mental content. The growing research supporting "third wave" …