Posts tagged with 'assessment'
The 5 minute 'Health' read - Psychedelics, recent research (February)
17th February 2024
I read a fair amount of research and thought some people might be interested in recent studies that I've found helpful. I plan to write an approximately 1,200 word (5 minutes to read) blog post pretty much every week, highlighting helpful material that has emerged in the previous couple of …
A wide-angle assessment of emotional states
3rd June 2023
My all-time favorite topic in positive psychology is the study of positive emotions. I'm fascinated by how pleasant experiences, which can be so subtle and fleeting, can add up over time to change who we become. I'm especially excited these days about investigating how positive emotions change the very ways …
Vitality project - measurement issues
22nd May 2023
What gets measured, gets managed. Peter Drucker If one's going to put a good deal of effort into measuring and so better managing something, then it's important that what one is measuring is significant. The earlier (and first) blog post in this series - Background & importance of a three …
How to live well - a shared exploration: course questionnaires
30th August 2018
I'm running a ten-session training, starting next week, called "How to live well - a shared exploration". Here's a link to a description of the first evening - "How to live well: 1st meeting - values, self-determination theory, roles & goals". Before, during & after the course, there's encouragement to …
A better way to assess & monitor progress with OCD
21st June 2018
When assessing and monitoring progress with OCD sufferers, originally I used the Y-BOCS questionnaire. Then some years ago I switched to using the OCI (distress scale). This is fine ... it's the officially recommended OCD questionnaire by IAPT, the English Increasing Access to Psychological Therapies initiative (see pages 39-41 of …
Using involvement in group discussions for (self-) assessment and learning
26th September 2016
(this blog post is freely downloadable as a Word doc and as a PDF file) I recently gave a talk on "Therapist drift: black heresy or red herring?". Although that was the title, the talk rapidly segued into an exploration of the current state of psychotherapy and what we might …
Warwick BABCP conference: pre-conference workshop on anger (1st post)
21st July 2015
OK, the annual summer British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies conference has come around again and this year it is back at Warwick University. As usual there are a wealth of one-day pre-conference workshops - a dozen in all this year. I'm off in a few minutes to Ray …
Assessment & monitoring questionnaires for CBT treatment of social anxiety disorder
25th September 2013
I went to a workshop on the treatment of social anxiety disorder with David Clark in July. It was very helpful. I've listed assessment & monitoring questionnaires that he recommended below: As a general measure to assess and track changes in social anxiety severity, the freely available Social Phobia Inventory …
A good way of assessing attachment style across a variety of close relationships: the ECR-RS questionnaire
18th April 2013
This is an extension of yesterday's blog post "Attachment style in both health professionals & their clients, therapeutic alliance & mindfulness". Nearly four years ago I wrote a blog post "Assessing attachment in adults" where I discussed this field and gave more details of the 36-item "Experiences in close relationships …
The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: assessment
8th March 2013
(Downloadable resources include an imagery assessment questionnaire available both as a PDF file and as a Word doc, a table to track changes during rescripting available as a PDF file and as a Word doc, a frequency/severity assessment scale also available both as a PDF file and as a Word …