Posts tagged with 'cbt'
Leeds BABCP conference: workshop on emotion processing in chronic fatigue syndrome - stress, abuse & mind-body links (3rd post)
28th June 2012
I wrote yesterday about current outcomes achievable through using CBT or GET for chronic fatigue syndrome. The results of the PACE trial produced something of an outcry in several patient organizations. Chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS), like for example chronic low back pain, is a very genuine disorder with major disabling …
Leeds BABCP conference: workshop on emotion processing in chronic fatigue syndrome - current CBT treatment results (2nd post)
27th June 2012
In yesterday's post, I described the pre-workshop publicity for this day on treatment of chronic fatigue syndrome. How did I find the workshop in actual practice? Well, I enjoyed meeting Trudie Chalder. She came across as very alive, friendly, bright, knowledgeable. Great. And her two decades or so of dedicated …
Leeds BABCP conference: pre-conference workshop on emotion processing in chronic fatigue syndrome with Trudie Chalder (1st post)
26th June 2012
The 40th British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference is at Leeds University. As usual it's preceded by a choice of pre-conference workshops. Three of the nineteen initially on offer have been cancelled, but there's still a wealth of options. I'm due to go to Trudie Chalder, from …
Recent research: articles from May journals
8th June 2012
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 17,800 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD: site visit & discrimination (7th post)
6th June 2012
The previous post in this sequence reflecting on a trauma-focused CBT workshop looked in some detail at imaginal reliving/revisiting. This seventh & final post more briefly describes "site visits" and "discrimination training". Nick Grey, who ran the workshop, said that there are four ways that he works with trauma memories …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - imagined "reliving" (6th post)
25th May 2012
(A printable copy of this blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file) This is the sixth post about this workshop on CBT memory-focused treatment for adults with PTSD. Earlier posts have looked at the workshop overall, discussed treatment structure, explored application for "non-PTSD …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - other applications (5th post)
8th May 2012
Last month I wrote a series of four blog posts about a CBT workshop on memory-focused for adults with PTSD (and a couple of posts about a personal experience of trauma). The third of these posts discussed how this kind of memory-focused approach could also be helpful for other types …
Recent research: articles from April journals
7th May 2012
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 17,700 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - writing suggestions (4th post)
16th April 2012
(A handout of the key points in this blog post is downloadable both as a Word doc and as a PDF file) I have written a series of blog posts on Nick Grey's expert workshop on CBT treatment of posttraumatic stress disorder. The day's focus was particularly on treatment approaches …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - grief & loss (3rd post)
14th April 2012
This is the third in a series of posts triggered by Nick Grey's workshop on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD. In the second post yesterday, I wrote about " ... treatment structure". In today's post I want to step back for a moment and get a broader …