Posts tagged with 'education'
European Positive Psychology conference: better 2nd day - culture and use of strengths
30th June 2016
I wrote yesterday about the "European Positive Psychology conference: 1st day - a disappointing start & caution on over-selling mindfulness" ... but today's conference presentations rapidly kicked my doubts about being here into touch. We started with a couple of fine keynotes ... Claudia Senik on "The cultural dimension of …
Practice-based evidence can complement evidence-based practice so very well
4th February 2015
Yesterday I wrote a blog post "Routine Outcome Monitoring can really help therapists clarify where they need to try harder". Today's post extends this extremely important point. About twenty years ago Howard and colleagues (Howard, Moras, Brill, Martinovich, & Lutz, 1996) introduced a crucial new approach for improving our outcomes. …
Routine Outcome Monitoring can really help therapists clarify where they need to try harder
3rd February 2015
I recently wrote a couple of blog posts - "Psychotherapy (and psychotherapist) outcomes are good but largely stagnant" and "Fascinatingly, therapists themselves vary considerably in their effectiveness". In the second of these posts I commented "A paper published just last month (Green, Barkham et al. 2014) found that the 25% …
Fascinatingly, therapists themselves vary considerably in their effectiveness
21st January 2015
I wrote a post yesterday on the good, but largely stagnant, outcomes currently being achieved in psychotherapy. In today's post I highlight the fascinating finding that psychotherapists themselves vary considerably in their effectiveness. If we can help those with poorer outcomes to begin matching those with better, great gains are …
Psychotherapy (and psychotherapist) outcomes are good but largely stagnant
20th January 2015
I have been asked to write a chapter on the importance of obtaining regular feedback on client progress in a book on psychotherapist self-practice & self-reflection. This initial section (see below) of a draft of the chapter comments on the current state of psychotherapy itself: (Note the ideas in this …
Some suggestions for giving and receiving helpful feedback
21st October 2012
(this blog post is freely downloadable as a Word doc and as a PDF file) "Man cannot remake himself without suffering, for he is both the marble and the sculptor." Dr. Alexis Carrel "It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say, "Go away, I'm …
Lessons from a personal multi-source feedback project
19th October 2012
"A friend is someone who sees the potential in you and helps you to live it." W. B. Yeats (adapted) "Honest criticism is hard to take, particularly from a relative, a friend, an acquaintance or a stranger." Franklin Jones A few months ago now, I initiated a personal feedback project. …
Compulsory multi-source feedback is coming or has already come to the health professions & to many other jobs as well
17th October 2012
"O wad some Power the giftie gie us to see oursels as ithers see us! It wad frae mony a blunder free us, an' foolish notion." Rabbie Burns "He who knows others is learned; he who knows himself is wise." Lao-tzu Compulsory revalidation begins for British medical doctors on the …
Psychotherapy training workshops improve skills considerably better if they are linked to subsequent ongoing supervision
12th September 2012
Rinad Beidas & colleagues from the University of Pennsylvania published a paper earlier this year entitled "Training and consultation to promote implementation of an empirically supported treatment: a randomized trial." The abstract reads "OBJECTIVE: The study evaluated the efficacy of three training modalities and the impact of ongoing consultation after …
Going back for a university reunion: reconstructing our personal stories (2nd post)
12th August 2012
"Those who do not have the power over the story that dominates their lives - the power to retell it, reexperience it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as times change - truly are powerless because they cannot think new thoughts" Salman Rushdie I wrote a first post …