Posts tagged with 'personality disorders'
BABCP spring meeting: Arnoud Arntz on schema therapy for personality disorders (3rd post)
4th May 2013
I wrote yesterday giving the official description of Arnoud Arntz's workshop in Belfast and explaining that getting an update on his work was the major reason I travelled to the BABCP Spring Conference & Workshops. So how was it actually being there? It was definitely worthwhile. When I walked into …
BABCP spring meeting: Arnoud Arntz on schema therapy for personality disorders (2nd post)
3rd May 2013
I have already written a brief introductory description of the two day British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Spring Workshops and Conference in Belfast last month. I reported that I had been to Arnoud Arntz's workshop on Schema-Focused Therapy. I have been to several training days with Arnoud …
BABCP spring meeting: workshop and conference - an introduction (1st post)
6th April 2013
I have just been in Belfast for the BABCP Spring workshops & conference. My mind is still buzzing from all the input. It was exciting. I went to Arnoud Arntz's workshop on Schema-Focused Therapy. I have been to several training days with Arnoud before, but it was helpful getting an …
Therapeutic cross-breeding: EFT's approach to self-interruption splits applied to outdated coping modes in schema therapy
20th March 2013
"The walls we build to protect ourselves become the prisons in which we live" Alice Miller (adapted) Here's a blog post for "the anoraks"! I mean that this post is mostly going to interest a rather limited group of psychotherapists but, hey, here goes. This evening I'm due to go …
Arntz & Jacob's new book "Schema therapy in practice": rescripting traumatic memories
14th December 2012
I have already written a series of blog posts - both on Arntz & Jacob's new book and on working with traumatic memories. In today's post I want to explore imagery rescripting more fully. The memorably named Mervin Smucker is an important figure in cognitive therapy's development of rescripting with …
Working with traumatic memories: trauma-focused CBT and an introduction to rescripting
19th November 2012
"Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." James Hollingworth Yesterday I wrote a post "Working with traumatic memories: KISS (keep it simple, stupid) and the virtues of straightforward prolonged exposure". Today I would like to consider what fuller …
NICE guidelines: borderline personality disorder
31st January 2009
A couple of days ago I blogged on the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence's (NICE's) January guidance on a diverse range of fifteen clinical, technology, interventional and public health subjects including Antisocial Personality Disorder. In today's post, I discuss NICE's hot-off-the-press guidance on Borderline Personality Disorder. This addresses …
NICE guidelines: January guidance including antisocial personality disorder
29th January 2009
Yesterday NICE - the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence in England & Wales - published guidance on a diverse range of fifteen clinical, technology, interventional and public health subjects. Their clinical guidance on Medicines Adherence interested me, as too did their public health guidance on Promoting Physical Activity …
Handouts & questionnaires for emotions, schema & personality
26th January 2009
Here are a set of diverse handouts and questionnaires on emotions, schema and personality. The "triangle of emotions" is a model I put together to help guide work on the longer term dysfunctional personality patterns that we probably all experience to some extent. The "big five" is a very widely …
Recent research: acute stress disorder & CBT, ‘life skills’ for medical students, and borderline personality disorder prevalence
14th August 2008
Bryant, R. A., J. Mastrodomenico, et al. (2008). "Treatment of Acute Stress Disorder: A Randomized Controlled Trial." Arch Gen Psychiatry 65(6): 659-667 [Abstract/Full Text] Context Recent trauma survivors with acute stress disorder (ASD) are likely to subsequently develop chronic posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD). Cognitive behavioral therapy for ASD may prevent …