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Posts tagged with 'cbt'

Guildford BABCP conference: last morning and the NICE guideline recommendation on the provision of couple therapy (seventh post)

27th July 2011

The last morning of the conference was pretty abbreviated for me as I needed to catch a train to London at around 11.00am. I went along to the first three talks of the symposium on "Behavioural couples therapy (BCT) in the South-West: New developments." Interesting times. Working in Scotland and …

Guildford BABCP conference: fathers & child anxiety, and more on couple therapy (sixth post)

26th July 2011

Yesterday I wrote about the "Discussion on the Dodo assertion - all good depression treatments are equally effective." What happened next? It was keynote lecture time ... with a choice of four. Probably I should have cold-bloodedly chosen to go back to Don Baucom on "Relationship functioning and adult psychopathology: …

Guildford BABCP conference: discussion on the Dodo assertion - all good depression treatments are equally effective (fifth post)

25th July 2011

I wrote yesterday about "Supershrinks and pseudoshrinks". The first panel discussion, that I then went to on the main conference's second day, overlapped a bit into this territory. It addressed the proposition "All bona fide psychological treatments for depression are equally effective" with a couple of experts supporting the notion …

Guildford BABCP conference: what shall we do about the fact that there are supershrinks and pseudoshrinks? (fourth post)

24th July 2011

Yesterday I wrote about the first morning of this year's BABCP conference and the plenary lecture - " ... Rolls Royce therapy & Anke Ehlers on PTSD (third post)". Good stuff. Heart-warming to see such fine, persistent, thoughtful research yielding such encouraging results for PTSD sufferers. Would that attempts to …

Guildford BABCP conference: Rolls Royce therapy and Anke Ehlers on PTSD (third post)

23rd July 2011

I wrote yesterday about one of the first symposia of this major annual meeting - "Guildford BABCP conference ... cognitive factors that maintain GAD and worry (second post)". After the symposium, we then had to choose between four plenary lectures. I opted for Anke Ehlers speaking on "Cognitive therapy for …

Guildford BABCP conference: pre-conference workshop on couple therapy with Don Baucom (first post)

21st July 2011

The 39th British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) conference is in Guildford at the University of Surrey this year. As usual it's preceded by a choice of pre-conference workshops. Two of the twenty two initially on offer have been cancelled, but there's still a wealth of options. I've …

Recent research: articles from June journals

7th July 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

Proposal for a BABCP special interest group on compassion

30th June 2011

The British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) encourages the formation of Special Interest Groups (SIG's) in areas that members want to particularly focus on. There has been discussion recently about a possible SIG on Compassion. If you're a member of the BABCP and you would like to be …

Recent research: articles from May journals

2nd June 2011

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 16,000 abstracts. Every few weeks I scan through all the articles I've found interesting in the previous month (in the general areas …

New NICE guidance on common mental disorders: identification and pathways to care

26th May 2011

This month the National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE) published their new evidence-based clinical guideline on "Common mental disorders: identification and pathways to care". The description reads "This clinical guideline offers evidence-based advice on the care and treatment of adults who have common mental health disorders, with a …