Posts tagged with 'positive psychology'
Recent research: articles from summer 2015 journals
29th August 2015
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 well over 22,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant …
Barbara Fredrickson and Love 2.0: some appreciations
26th August 2015
"Love doesn't just sit there, like a stone; it has to be made, like bread, remade all the time, made new." Ursula Le Guin In July last year, I heard Barbara Fredrickson lecturing at the 7th European Conference on Positive Psychology in Amsterdam. It was a fascinating talk putting forward …
Recent research: articles from spring 2015 journals
29th June 2015
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 22,000 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …
Kathy Shear workshop on complicated grief: identification (2nd post)
19th June 2015
I wrote a blog post yesterday morning setting the scene for a two day workshop I was about to go to with Professor Kathy Shear on her treatment approach for complicated grief. Well, how did the day go? It was very interesting, inspiring, and also a little too much "simply …
Kathy Shear workshop on complicated grief: before (1st post)
18th June 2015
I was struck by a couple of papers on grief that I read last year. One was Kathy Shear & colleagues' "Treatment of complicated grief in elderly persons: a randomized clinical trial" and the other was Bryant et al's "Treating prolonged grief disorder: a randomized clinical trial." I was impressed …
Resource activation: using clients' own strengths in psychotherapy and counseling - affirmation (2nd post)
25th May 2015
I wrote a post a few days ago entitled "Resource activation: using clients' own strengths in psychotherapy and counseling - background (1st post)" giving some of the research basis for suggesting this territory is very relevant for therapists who are pushing to help their clients more effectively. In order to …
Resource activation: using clients' own strengths in psychotherapy and counseling - background (1st post)
20th May 2015
A bit over two years ago I wrote a sequence of three blog posts starting with "New research suggests CBT depression treatment is more effective if we focus on strengths rather than weaknesses". This was triggered by the fascinating paper by Cheavens & colleagues "The compensation and capitalization models: A …
Recent research: articles from early 2015 journals
28th April 2015
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 21,800 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …
Recent research: articles from winter journals
24th February 2015
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 21,600 abstracts. I also regularly tweet about emerging research, so following me on Twitter, Facebook or Google+ (click on the relevant icon …
Some current research evidence for therapeutic uses of reading & writing (2nd post)
13th January 2015
Yesterday's post and today's are combined and downloadable as a Word doc or as a PDF file. therapeutic benefits from writing: Quite often “therapeutic” approaches that primarily involve reading also include writing components and vice-versa. Probably the most extensively studied form of therapeutic writing is the large body of research …