Stressed To Zest | Good Medicine

Sessional client feedback: a launch pad for improving outcomes

1st November 2014

Counselling & psychotherapy are often helpful. In fact they are more effective than, for example, many interventions in cardiology or ... . Worryingly though ... despite a wealth of emerging research ... there has been little improvement in the outcomes we achieve. The same, of course, could be said about pharmacological approaches to mental health problems. ...

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...

Practising "doing": autonomy, values and "driving the bus"

27th September 2014

"When I get to heaven, they will not ask me 'Why were you not Moses?' Instead they will ask 'Why were you not Susya? Why did you not become what only you could become?'" Susya, a Hasidic rabbi.

Earlier this week I wrote...