A few days ago someone commented on an old post here. Actually, they’re all old posts now 
Anyway, it was a reminder to me that this place still exists, so I thought I might bring things up to date a little.
Archive for the ‘CBT’ Category
Fear of coffee
Posted in CBT, UK, tagged BABCP, CBT, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, therapy, training on August 4, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
Impossible
Posted in CBT, depression, disorder, For patients, Review, tagged CBT, emotion, mental health, mental illness, paradox, psychotherapy, recovery, science on May 19, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
There’s a neurological model of colour perception that leads to surprising conclusions about colours, and interesting parallels with emotions.
Creepy
Posted in CBT, For patients, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged case study, CBT, childhood, counseling, counselling, emotion, family, feelings, love, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, relationships on May 12, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
An animated TV documentary broadcast by the BBC illustrates some useful ideas in counselling and psychotherapy. It’s a bit creepy, too.
Reflection
Posted in CBT, For patients, For therapists, Research, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged BABCP, CBT, childhood, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, recovery, Research, therapy, training on May 10, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
A recent research study that asked CBT therapists to reflect on their own thoughts illustrates unwittingly how poor some CBT training has become.
Harm
Posted in CBT, For patients, Research, Review, UK, tagged CBT, counseling, counselling, diagnosis, distress, evidence, mental health, mental illness, NHS, psychiatry, psychotherapy, Research, science, therapy on April 21, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
This month’s draft guideline from the health quango NICE on the long-term management of self harm provides a revealing perspective on the NHS’s inadequacies, which go beyond failures in the treatment of individual cases to NICE itself and the basis for its existence.
Pals
Posted in CBT, For therapists, Research, Review, tagged evidence, mental health, mental illness, peer review, psychology, psychotherapy, Research, science, therapy on February 20, 2011 | 2 Comments »
It seems strange to think that we are all hurtling through space on this big chunk of rock we call Earth. It’s OK when immersed in a science fiction story and disbelief is suspended, but for real? Weird.
Yet it’s the accepted view of things. Scientists tell us that it is so.
Paradigm
Posted in CBT, For patients, Review, Techniques, tagged CBT, diagnosis, emotion, evidence, feelings, mental health, mental illness, NHS, psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, recovery, relationships, schizophrenia, therapy, training on January 5, 2011 | 2 Comments »
The wilful narrowness of much academic training for mental health professionals never ceases to astonish me.
Its worst effect is that those professionals who have the most impressive qualifications and titles can turn out to be be the least skilled treatment providers, which makes it very difficult for patients who are serious about recovery to find a competent therapist.
Grass
Posted in CBT, For patients, For therapists, Review, tagged Carl Rogers, CBT, childhood, diagnosis, mental health, mental illness, paradox, psychiatry, psychotherapy, relationships, schizophrenia, therapy on December 14, 2010 | Leave a Comment »
Far away to the North, in Lapland, some say, Santa’s elves are elving away making Christmas presents ready for good little girls and boys. What would be on a mental health Christmas list, I wonder? Immediate response to every psychiatric crisis? Coordinated team treatment without any referrals or waiting lists? Effective home treatment that keeps people off medication and out of hospital? Perhaps, if you’ve been very, very good…
Values
Posted in CBT, For therapists, Review, Techniques, tagged alcoholism, anorexia, case study, CBT, diagnosis, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, therapy, values on November 4, 2010 | 2 Comments »
One of the most important organizing principles of a person’s life, traditionally, was felt to be a clear sense of values — ideas to believe in and to be devoted to, a set of ideals more important than an individual life, which therefore could be relied upon as a way for an individual to make choices. This notion of values comes perilously close to the notion in CBT of beliefs, which have the potential to go wrong occasionally and lead an individual astray into a state of emotional disorder.
Stigma
Posted in CBT, For patients, For therapists, Review, UK, tagged BABCP, case study, CBT, childhood, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, recovery, therapy on October 7, 2010 | 4 Comments »
The BABCP recently lent its support to a confused and misleading media campaign about stigma and mental health. Now it has added to the confusion by publishing an embarrassing case study showcasing the worst kind of failed CBT.
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