Posts tagged with 'time factors'
Twice weekly therapy sessions seem more effective than once weekly for depression
20th February 2020
"All truth passes through three stages. First, it is ridiculed. Second, it is violently opposed. Third, it is accepted as being self-evident." (mis) attributed to Arthur Schopenhauer. It's hard to improve psychotherapy outcomes. Typically, different well structured therapies produce very similar outcomes in head to head trials. This makes the …
Do therapists get wiser with experience - or just repeat the same old mistakes?
7th March 2018
I'm due to give a talk at the "Cosca Ethics Seminar" in a few hours. The title is "Do therapists get wiser with experience - or just repeat the same old mistakes?". The 52 slides make quite a large file to download. I've put them on Dropbox, so here's the …
Personal ‘retreat’: third reflection – quietening down ... and do we need time to change?
22nd February 2016
I've already written a couple of blog posts during my "retreat" at this Study Centre - "Setting the scene" and "Settling & questioning". Now it's the start of the third day … yesterday was a strange mix of tastes. Out on a couple of walks … for over three hours …
Complicated grief - how common is it?
24th September 2015
I recently wrote a blog post "Grief is our natural human response to bereavement" where I said that mourning may well involve powerful feelings of yearning, disbelief, anger & depression. When we have lost someone who has been very important to us, we gradually need to learn to live without …
Grief is our natural human response to bereavement
22nd September 2015
When we're badly physically injured, there may be horrible pain and loss of ability to function normally. Then though there is typically a gradual recovery. Scars may be left; there may be some persisting vulnerability, but basically our bodies are wonderful at self-healing. There are parallels between wounds due to …
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 …
If you see a therapist, how many sessions are you likely to need?
14th April 2015
Is this one question or many? If you see a therapist, how many treatment sessions are you likely to need? Sometimes that's a little like asking "If I go on a journey, how long should I travel for?" Happily though, we do now have enough research evidence to be able …
Recent research: two studies on relationships, two on body to mind effects, and two on mindfulness
17th February 2011
Here are details of half a dozen recent research papers - two on relationships, two on body to mind effects, and two on mindfulness. Fuller details, links and abstracts of all the studies mentioned are given further down this post. First a couple of relationship studies. Gibb & colleagues reported …
Recent research: six lifestyle & health studies - two on sleep, two on smoking, one on diet & one on weight
13th January 2011
Here are half a dozen recent research papers on lifestyle and health - fuller details, abstracts & links to all studies mentioned are listed further down this post. The first couple are on sleep. I live a pretty healthy life, but I do "short change" myself a bit on sleep …
Manchester BABCP conference: Jamie Pennebaker, expressive writing & timing issues (seventh post)
22nd August 2010
I wrote yesterday about Jamie Pennebaker's talk at the Manchester BABCP conference and explored various issues including the importance of emotion regulation and the unhelpfulness of high levels of emotional suppression. In today's post I would like to enlarge on the the important issue of timing and how the values …