Posts tagged with 'bipolar'
CBT World Congress: 1st conference day - chronotherapy, sleep, PTSD, bipolar disorder, and emotions
18th July 2019
I wrote yesterday about a pre-conference workshop I attended on "Reimagining CBT for depression" with Keith Dobson. Today is the first of the three full days of the '9th World Congress of Behavioural & Cognitive Therapies' conference proper. They aren't taking any prisoners ... each day runs from 8.30am to …
Sleep apnea: how is it recognised & what can be done about it?
29th April 2016
I have already written a couple of posts on sleep apnea -"Sleep apnea - what is it, how common is it and how does it affect mortality & physical health?" and "Sleep apnea - how does it affect psychological health?". In this third & last post of the sequence, I'll …
Sleep apnea - how does it affect psychological health?
23rd April 2016
I have already written a first post "Sleep apnea - what is it, how common is it and how does it affect mortality & physical health?" which highlights that sleep apnea is a common, regularly unrecognised disorder, occurring in approaching 1 in 5 adults and that, particularly as it becomes …
Non-drug treatments for bipolar disorder (2nd post) - sleep, light & exercise
8th April 2016
I have just given a talk on "Recent research on non-drug treatments for bipolar disorder" to the Lothian branch of "Bipolar Scotland". There is a description of the first part of the talk at "Non-drug treatments for bipolar disorder (1st post) - the value of psychotherapy" and you can download …
Non-drug treatments for bipolar disorder (1st post) - the value of psychotherapy
5th April 2016
I am due to give a talk for the Lothian branch of "Bipolar Scotland" on "Recent research on non-drug treatments for bipolar disorder". Here is the downloadable Powerpoint presentation (with pictures removed to reduce the size of the file) and here is a slide illustrating the main points that I …
Recent research: CBT for a variety of conditions – back pain, PTSD, obsessions, bipolar disorder, schemas & social anxiety
20th May 2010
Here are six recent papers on CBT treatment for a variety of disorders - for fuller details, abstracts and links, see further down this page. Lamb et al explored the value of "Group cognitive behavioural treatment for low-back pain in primary care". That their results were reported in the Lancet, …
Handouts & questionnaires for outcome tracking: depression, mania, side-effects, anxiety, worry, alcohol, sleep, gambling & more
21st December 2009
Well, well, well ... what a lot of amazing information there is out there on the internet. I was trawling to try to find the copyright position of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale (more on this soon in a future post) when I tumbled into Mark Zimmerman's "Outcome Tracker" website. …
Recent research: free June edition of "Clinical Psychology: Science and Practice" focuses on bipolar disorder
2nd July 2009
The June edition of the journal "Clinical psychology: science and practice" focused on bipolar disorder. This is very valuable and the fact that all the articles are freely viewable in full text makes the publication even more helpful. As Youngstrom & Kendall write in their introductory article (see below) "Knowledge …
Handouts & questionnaires for assessment of depression
6th April 2009
Depression assessment scales come in two basic forms - interviewer/clinician rated and sufferer/patient rated. As stated in the background information on the IDS/QIDS questionnaires (see below) "There are several accepted clinician rated and patient self report measures of depressive symptoms. The most commonly used clinician rated scales are the 17, …
Recent research: six studies on prevalence of depression & anxiety, and risk factors for depression, bipolar disorder & suicide
15th January 2009
Here are a couple of studies on the prevalence of depression and anxiety, and four on risk factors for depression, bipolar disorder and suicide. Strine et al report on a major survey of depression and anxiety in the United States. They found "The overall prevalence of current depressive symptoms was …