Posts tagged with 'interpersonal'
Psychotherapy with couples & other close relationships
28th January 2019
Over the next two days I'm due to run a two day training workshop in Glasgow on "Psychotherapy with couples & other close relationships". Here are the downloadable slides for the first day on "Working with couples" (sadly with the cartoons removed for copyright reasons) and here the slides for …
Paired meditation deepens interpersonal connection: how to go about it
6th May 2017
Yesterday I wrote the blog post "Paired meditation deepens interpersonal connection: Tania Singer's wonderful ReSource project" which introduced & overviewed the recent, very impressive ReSource Project. I also discussed the associated JAMA Psychiatry research paper "Effects of contemplative dyads on engagement and perceived social connectedness over nine months of mental …
Paired meditation deepens interpersonal connection: Tania Singer's wonderful ReSource project
5th May 2017
Yesterday I was skimming through the JAMA Psychiatry journal and I got hijacked by Kok & Singer's recent article "Effects of contemplative dyads on engagement and perceived social connectedness over nine months of mental training: a randomized controlled trial". The abstract reads - "Importance Loneliness is a risk factor for …
Some counsellors & psychotherapists are more effective than others
1st October 2016
This is the third in a sequence of blog posts - "Therapist drift: black heresy or red herring - maybe not so important?", "Psychotherapy is helpful but has developed shockingly poorly over the last 30 years" and now this one "Some counsellors & psychotherapists are more effective than others." As …
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 …
Truly excellent therapists have "grace under interpersonal pressure" - How can we assess ourselves?
19th March 2016
I wrote a post recently called "Truly excellent therapists have 'grace under interpersonal pressure - Fascinating new research". I mentioned the classic 2009 Timothy Anderson paper "Therapist effects: facilitative interpersonal skills as a predictor of therapist success". I then went on to describe three great new additions to this literature …
Truly excellent therapists have "grace under interpersonal pressure" - Fascinating new research
15th March 2016
Hemingway wrote "Courage is grace under pressure". New research underlines that "grace under interpersonal pressure" is a key ability of truly excellent therapists. Study after study has shown that psychotherapists vary considerably in how helpful they are for their clients. The slide below shows a typical set of findings: (downloadable …
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (2nd post)
15th July 2015
I recently wrote the blog post "New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)" where I introduced two new research articles - Hudson and Fraley's "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change personality traits?" and Elliott et al's "Psychometrics …
New research describes effective ways of changing long-term personality traits & other persistent behaviour patterns (1st post)
14th July 2015
Hudson and Fraley's great new article "Volitional personality trait change: Can people choose to change their personality traits?" still just has "online first" status at the Journal of Personality and Social Psychology so it hasn't even got to "hot off the press" yet. It describes such interesting findings. The abstract …
"Cooperative behaviour cascades in social networks"
16th October 2010
"No act of kindness, however small, is ever wasted." Aesop "Keep on sowing your seed, for you never know which will grow - perhaps it all will." Einstein Our kindness (and unkindness) ripples outwards. A group of people - or a broader society - survives because its members manage to …