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Posts tagged with 'evidence-based'

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 …

Keeping up with relevant research

18th March 2013

I average a little over three hours weekly scanning medical and psychological journals on the internet. Typically I zoom through the article titles looking for anything relevant to stress, health & wellbeing. If something seems interesting, I read the article's abstract. I may well then download it to my bibliographic …

Recent research: six papers relevant to psychotherapy

28th May 2009

Here are six studies relevant to improving psychotherapy outcomes. Brewin et al report on using imagery-based interventions to help people with depressioin. Lydiard et al highlight the importance of sleep-related disturbances as a treatment target in PTSD. McCrady and colleagues show that working with couples rather than just individuals seems …