Posts tagged with 'rumination'
Warwick BABCP conference: 1st afternoon - treating adolescent anxiety & depression, and depressive rumination (3rd post)
22nd July 2015
I have already written about the pre-conference workshop I went to on "Anger dysregulation" and the presentations on the first morning of this year's summer CBT conference in "Warwick BABCP conference: 1st morning - trauma memories & a master presentation on four decades of outcome research (2nd post)". In the …
Warwick BABCP conference: 1st morning - trauma memories & a master presentation on four decades of outcome research (2nd post)
22nd July 2015
Yesterday I blogged about the pre-conference workshop I attended on "Anger dysregulation". Today was the first full day of the conference proper. Breakfast illustrated the kind of helpful, fun conversation that can emerge at this kind of event. I talked to Fiona McFarlene & Tara Murphy who were going on …
BABCP spring meeting: CBASP & chronic depression, therapist support, mindfulness & health anxiety, and intrusions & control
5th May 2013
In the last few days I have written a series of posts about the BABCP Spring Conference & Workshops in Belfast - the most recent being "BABCP spring meeting: Arnoud Arntz on schema therapy for personality disorders". Besides Arntz's presentations, the two highlights of this Belfast meeting for me were …
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 …
Rumination: brooding, pondering, mindfulness, hypersensitivity, concreteness, writing - raising as many questions as answers
13th November 2012
Probably most cogntive-behavioural therapists subscribe to the general comment that rumination is a bad for depression. And it is, but as Oscar Wilde said "The truth is rarely pure and never simple". Smith & Alloy, in their 2009 paper "A roadmap to rumination: a review of the definition, assessment, and …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource - overview of 10 supporting blog posts
14th August 2012
Earlier this year I wrote a sequence of ten blog posts to support people working their way through Mark Williams & Danny Penman's fine book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. I've referred lots of people to these …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (6th post) - fourth week's practice
19th January 2012
Last week I wrote about chapter seven of Mark & Danny's book. This post is about chapter eight - the fourth week of actual meditation practice - entitled "Moving beyond the rumour mill" (pp. 134 to 158). In their week-by-week overall summary of the whole programme (pp. 58 to 60), …
Using Williams & Penman's book "Mindfulness: a practical guide" as a self-help resource (1st post) - introduction
8th December 2011
This is the first in a series of intended posts about using Mark Williams & Danny Penman's excellent recent book "Mindfulness: a practical guide to finding peace in a frantic world" as a self-help training in mindfulness practice. My hope is that these blog posts will provide some back-up resources …
Recent research: six studies on money, happiness, romance, leadership, self-compassion & avoidance
26th August 2010
Here are half a dozen recent research studies that caught my eye. Diener et al, in a large sample of people round the world, found intriguingly that wealth tends to increase life satisfaction, while it is the fulfilment of psychological needs - learning, autonomy, using one's skills, respect, and the …
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. …