Posts tagged with 'generalized anxiety'
Maximizing exposure therapy
9th October 2014
Michelle Craske & colleagues from the Anxiety Disorders Research Center of UCLA have, for many years, been publishing careful, challenging research on underlying mechanisms & on ways of boosting the effectiveness of exposure therapies for different forms of anxiety. Craske's list of publications & research presentations runs to 31 pages …
The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: treatment
10th March 2013
I have recently written a couple of blog posts - "The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: introduction" and "The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: assessment". The posts were …
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 …
The potential value of rescripting images in chronic pain & other distressed states like depression & anxiety: introduction
6th March 2013
A high percentage of chronic pain sufferers seem to be affected by recurrent imagery that is linked to and aggravates their pain. Often the imagery's occurrence only emerges with careful questioning. "Rescripting" these images is associated with impressive short term improvements in pain and distress. What's exciting is the potential …
Guildford BABCP conference: symposium on cognitive factors that maintain GAD and worry (second post)
22nd July 2011
First day of the conference proper. I wrote yesterday about the pre-conference "Workshop on couples therapy with Don Baucom" that I went to. It was excellent and I intend to write more about it later. For now though, the conference. 9.00 to 11.15am and already we have a choice of …
New NICE guidance on common mental disorders: identification and pathways to care
26th May 2011
This month the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on "Common mental disorders: identification and pathways to care". The description reads "This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of adults who have common mental health disorders, with a …
New NICE guidance on the treatment of generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) and panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia)
10th February 2011
In January, the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on the care and treatment of adults with generalised anxiety disorder (GAD) or panic disorder (with or without agoraphobia). This guideline updates and replaces their 2004 one (which was itself amended in 2007). …
Generalized anxiety disorder: should applied relaxation be the first line psychological treatment?
4th April 2010
I recently looked again at Professor Michel Dugas's interesting work on Generalized Anxiety Disorder (GAD) at Concordia University, Montreal. On his Anxiety Disorders Lab website he writes: "Over the past 17 years, I have conducted clinical research on the psychological processes involved in the etiology of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD). …
Writing (& speaking) for resilience & wellbeing 2: traumas & difficulties
17th January 2010
Fear is the mind-killer ... I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain. …
Recent research: diet associated depression, weight & violence, vitamin D fall prevention, IBS & anxiety, yoga & mindfulness
26th November 2009
Here are a mixed bag of six recent research papers on diet, vitamin D, IBS and yoga (all details & abstracts to these studies are listed further down this blog post). The first three papers highlight the toxic effects on psychological health, physical health, and society of our processed, high …