Posts tagged with 'internet'
COVID-19: some useful websites
21st March 2020
"Everything you say in advance of a pandemic seems alarmist. Anything you've done after it starts is inadequate." Michael Leavitt (then US Health Secretary discussing H5N1 avian flu in 2007). "There isn't any formula or method. You learn to love by loving - by paying attention and doing what one …
Glasgow BABCP conference: 1st day - lecture rant, Anke Ehlers on PTSD, a workshop on the 'strong & curious therapist', and more.
19th July 2018
Yesterday was the first full day of the two & a half day (plus one day of pre-conference workshops) BABCP summer conference in Glasgow. It feels like I've been going to these annual BABCP get-togethers for a thousand years. In so many ways, I think they're great ... although, for …
Some current research evidence for therapeutic uses of reading & writing (2nd post)
13th January 2015
Yesterday's post and today's are combined and downloadable as a Word doc or as a PDF file. therapeutic benefits from writing: Quite often “therapeutic” approaches that primarily involve reading also include writing components and vice-versa. Probably the most extensively studied form of therapeutic writing is the large body of research …
Some current research evidence for therapeutic uses of reading & writing (1st post)
12th January 2015
I was asked by a friend to write a short piece on research evidence backing up therapeutic uses of reading & writing to be used in a local initiative supporting health workers in a diverse range of settings. Today's and tomorrow's post give the piece with hyperlinks to the various …
C25K - couch to 5 km: NHS web resources for getting "just about anyone off the couch and running 5 km in 9 weeks"
25th April 2013
Well here's a good example of being taught by our patients. I've had two or three people, who come to see me, singing the praises of the C25K NHS website. The site states that "Our C25K plan is designed to get just about anyone off the couch and running 5km …
Update on website traffic: nearly a quarter of a million page views last year
6th March 2012
This blog went live on 8th October 2008. In the nearly three & a half years from then up until today, the blog & website (particularly the Good Knowledge section) have had 155,178 hits and 579,356 page views from 171 countries. The average visitor views about 4 pages on the …
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: 2 on frequency of psychological disorder, and 5 on using books, phones & computers to deliver CBT
10th November 2010
Here are seven recent articles that caught my interest (abstracts & links are given further down the page). The first two revisit the "How common is troublesome psychological distress?" question. The title of Moffitt et al's paper is self-explanatory - "How common are common mental disorders? Evidence that lifetime prevalence …
Three interesting websites: DSM-5 development, group therapy, and 'get self-help'
6th April 2010
Here are three websites that I have recently found interesting. The first two are possibly more for therapists, while the third can be very helpful for therapists and general public alike. The American Psychiatric Association's DSM-5 development site states "Publication of the fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of …
Getting help for depression in Scotland – support groups, online & face-to-face courses, newsletter, telephone service, and more
20th December 2009
The e-newsletter from Depression Alliance Scotland (DAS) popped into my inbox last week. What good work they do. The new information that particularly caught my eye was access to an online facilitated self-help course. The description runs: "We have a new service offering support for people to use Living Life …