Posts tagged with 'social anxiety'
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 …
Reappraisal training can help hugely in coping with difficult experiences
27th August 2017
Reappraisal (changing the meaning we give to experiences) has been repeatedly shown to be one of the most effective ways we have to regulate our emotions. It's one of the star components of effective emotion-regulation, coping-skill toolkits ... and it's important to realise that these toolkits can be very helpful …
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 …
Treating social anxiety disorder: still more on video (and still) feedback (7th post)
6th August 2014
I recently wrote a post on using video in the most effective treatment we have for social anxiety ... "Treating social anxiety disorder: video (and still) feedback (6th post)". Typically with social anxiety there are several "layers" to a sufferer's fears about potential negative judgements from others. For example they …
Treating social anxiety disorder: video (and still) feedback (6th post)
5th August 2014
Back last autumn I wrote five detailed blog posts about CBT treatment of social anxiety disorder and also a further post giving access to a series of assessment & monitoring questionnaires - "Self-practice, Self-reflection (SP/SR) & David Clark's treatment for social anxiety: introduction (1st post)", "David Clark's treatment for social …
Birmingham BABCP conference: first day - decentering, compassion, insomnia, social anxiety, sp/sr & barbecue (3rd post)
24th July 2014
This is a quick overview of the first full day of the annual BABCP summer conference in Birmingham. I intend to return to some of the key learning points in later posts. I've already written about the pre-conference workshop I went to on "Emotion regulation" in a couple of earlier …
Assessment & monitoring questionnaires for CBT treatment of social anxiety disorder
25th September 2013
I went to a workshop on the treatment of social anxiety disorder with David Clark in July. It was very helpful. I've listed assessment & monitoring questionnaires that he recommended below: As a general measure to assess and track changes in social anxiety severity, the freely available Social Phobia Inventory …
Self-practice, Self-reflection (SP/SR) & David Clark's treatment for social anxiety: assessment (2nd post)
23rd September 2013
Yesterday I wrote an introductory post on using self-practice & self-reflection (SP/SR) to improve my understanding of David Clark's treatment for social anxiety. In today's post I want to look at assessment - of social anxiety disorder, of skill with Clark's CBT approach, and at SP/SR initiation. Back in May, …
Self-practice, Self-reflection (SP/SR) & David Clark's treatment for social anxiety: introduction (1st post)
22nd September 2013
Self-practice/Self-reflection (SP/SR) is an approach to training in cognitive-behavioural therapy (CBT) that involves practising CBT methods on oneself (self-practice - SP) and then reflecting on what one can learn from this experience (self-reflection - SR). SP/SR is at the interface between more standard training approaches (such as lectures, videos, role …