Posts tagged with 'exposure'
Glasgow BABCP conference: Pre-conference workshop - Michelle Craske on 'Exposure therapy in the 21st century' (2nd post)
29th July 2018
I recently wrote a first blog post introducing the excellent workshop that Michelle Craske ran before this year's BABCP annual conference. It's easy to see Michelle's work as only relevant for improving outcomes in exposure therapy of anxiety disorders. However I think these ideas are important much more widely than …
Glasgow BABCP conference: Pre-conference workshop - Michelle Craske on 'Exposure therapy in the 21st century' (1st post)
17th July 2018
This pre-conference workshop with Michelle Craske on "Exposure in the 21st century" was great. A few years ago - in the blog post "Maximising exposure therapy" - I wrote "Michelle Craske & colleagues from the Anxiety Disorders Research Center of UCLA have, for many years, been publishing careful, challenging research …
Further background for the colouring in exercise: gratitude, expressive writing, emotion processing & taking it forward
14th June 2018
This "Further background ... " post adds to the "Initial background for the colouring in exercise: assessment, maps, emotional intelligence & emotion discrimination" in supporting the "The 'emotion colouring in exercise': how to do it". gratitude writing: The second 3-minute section of ... expressive writing: Returning to the ... emotion …
Initial background for the colouring in exercise: assessment, maps, emotional intelligence & emotion differentiation
12th June 2018
This "Initial background" post provides important information to support use of the brief 6-minute "Emotion colouring In exercise". There is additional useful information in the companion post "Further background for the colouring in exercise: gratitude, expressive writing, emotion processing & taking it forward". Emotional intelligence: Emotion differentiation: More to follow …
The "emotion colouring in exercise": how to do it
11th June 2018
The "Emotion colouring In exercise" is a deceptively simple 6-minute writing exercise where we practise identifying and describing our feelings. For important additional information about this process, see the "Initial background for the colouring in exercise: assessment, maps, emotional intelligence & emotion differentiation" and the "Further background for the colouring …
Cognitive therapy versus exposure therapy for hypochondriasis (health anxiety): A randomized controlled trial
18th November 2015
Excessive health anxiety is associated with high levels of distress, disability and increased health care use. It is common. A recent study - "Health anxiety in Australia: prevalence, comorbidity, disability and service use" - reported "Health anxiety affects approximately 5.7% of the Australian population across the lifespan and 3.4% met …
Don Baucom on couple-based interventions for anxiety disorders
29th September 2015
Just about to start the second day of this two day workshop led by Professor Don Baucom on "Couple-Based Interventions for Anxiety Disorders". We're here at the Royal Foundation of St Katharine in London's East End. St Katharine's aims to provide a "sense of an oasis in the city" and …
Kathy Shear workshop on complicated grief: identification (2nd post)
19th June 2015
I wrote a blog post yesterday morning setting the scene for a two day workshop I was about to go to with Professor Kathy Shear on her treatment approach for complicated grief. Well, how did the day go? It was very interesting, inspiring, and also a little too much "simply …
Kathy Shear workshop on complicated grief: before (1st post)
18th June 2015
I was struck by a couple of papers on grief that I read last year. One was Kathy Shear & colleagues' "Treatment of complicated grief in elderly persons: a randomized clinical trial" and the other was Bryant et al's "Treating prolonged grief disorder: a randomized clinical trial." I was impressed …
Treatment of prolonged grief disorder
26th December 2014
A couple of recent research studies have underlined the value of specific forms of psychotherapy for complicated grief reactions: Shear, M. K., et al. (2014). "Treatment of complicated grief in elderly persons: a randomized clinical trial." JAMA Psychiatry 71(11): 1287-1295. IMPORTANCE: Complicated grief (CG) is a debilitating condition, most prevalent …