Posts tagged with 'cbt'
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in CBT for adults with PTSD - treatment structure (2nd post)
13th April 2012
Yesterday I wrote an introductory post on this "Memory-focused approaches ... with PTSD" workshop. So how did it go? It went well. I'm definitely glad I went to this seminar. I say "seminar" because, as is typically the case with BABCP conference-associated "workshops", there was minimal chance for participants to …
BABCP spring meeting: Nick Grey on memory-focused approaches in cognitive therapy for adults with PTSD - introduction (1st post)
12th April 2012
I've just arrived from Scotland off the sleeper for the 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 five. I'm going to Nick Grey's on "Memory-focused approaches in cognitive therapy for adults with …
Recent research: articles from March journals
7th April 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 17,500 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Recent research: articles from February journals
10th March 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 17,400 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
Self-help for insomnia: encouraging results and some available resources
10th February 2012
I've written three blog posts about sleep in the last three months - "'Sleep well and live better: overcoming insomnia using CBT'- a workshop with Colin Espie", "The links between sleep disturbance and depression" and "Is short duration sleep a problem or is it just disturbed sleep that leads to …
Recent research: articles from January journals
1st February 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 17,200 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …
My brand new "two-seven-two" model of integrative psychotherapy! (second post)
23rd January 2012
I began thinking yesterday about what I actually do as a psychotherapist. This lead to a light-hearted first post describing a "two-seven-two" model of integrative psychotherapy. The initial "two" acknowledges the importance of an overview of what has been going on for the client and a good working alliance. The …
My brand new "two-seven-two" model of integrative psychotherapy! (first post)
22nd January 2012
Here's my brand new "two-seven-two" model of integrative psychotherapy. How do I know it's so fresh off the press? Well I just came up with it lying warmly in bed an hour or so ago. It's "serious" in the sense that I have been mulling over what I actually do …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (fifth post): two chair conflict dialogues
16th January 2012
I wrote yesterday about the importance of processing "hot cognitions" and feelings. In today's post I aim to to drill down more into the emotional evocation and processing of chair work. "Two chair work for conflict splits" is often relevant, Robert Elliott suggested in this Emotion-focused therapy workshop, when clients …
Emotion-focused therapy workshop series (fourth post): the importance of processing "hot" cognitions & feelings
15th January 2012
I wrote yesterday about the morning session on "Narrative therapy and trauma processing" in the third day of an "Emotion-focused psychotherapy: Level 2 workshop series" that I'm attending at the University of Strathclyde. A couple of months ago, in my first post about this whole workshop series, I wrote "As …