In Fear of coffee I mentioned the renowned American CBT therapist, Christine Padesky. One of the recurring themes in her work has been to counter the notion that CBT is just about providing helpless patients with techniques for solving their problems, by emphasizing that patients always come to therapy with capabilities and strengths of their very own.
Posts Tagged ‘counselling’
Strengths
Posted in For therapists, Review, Techniques, tagged CBT, counseling, counselling, evidence, feelings, happiness, mental health, mental illness, positive psychology, psychology, psychotherapy on August 6, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Alignment
Posted in For patients, Review, UK, tagged case study, CCGs, clinical commissioning groups, counseling, counselling, diagnosis, evidence, family, GPs, IAPT, mental health, mental illness, NHS, NICE, primary care, psychotherapy, recovery, secondary care, therapy, training on December 16, 2011 | 1 Comment »
Patients and bloggers often complain about their GPs’ lack of understanding of mental health, so I was interested to come across an article recently that suggests some ways in which the work of GPs (primary care) could be better aligned with mental health care.
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.
The net
Posted in depression, For patients, Review, UK, tagged CBT, counseling, counselling, diagnosis, emotion, feelings, mental health, mental illness, NHS, psychotherapy, recovery, Research, therapy on April 28, 2011 | 1 Comment »
I noticed today that Depression Awareness Week is coming, according the website of the charity Depression Alliance. This year it’s going to be the week of 11th-18th April — oh — well, I suppose I’m in no position to complain that they don’t update their website very often.
Like many sources of information and self-help about mental illness, Depression Alliance have a fuzzy definition of what mental illness is, and that’s much more serious.
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.
Sums
Posted in For therapists, Research, Review, UK, tagged counseling, counselling, IAPT, mental health, mental illness, NHS, psychotherapy, therapy on August 9, 2010 | 3 Comments »
I’ve been doing my sums, making me feel as if I have come back from my summer hols to face some tedious maths coursework that has to be completed before term starts. But this was not coursework. It’s a review of the NHS initiative to improve access to psychological therapies, IAPT.
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Failure
Posted in CBT, depression, For patients, Techniques, UK, tagged BABCP, CBT, counseling, counselling, emotion, feelings, mental illness, NHS, psychotherapy, recovery, relationships, therapy on June 22, 2010 | 2 Comments »
It’s time for me to face it. CBT just doesn’t work (in some cases). Even formulated CBT with an experienced therapist can sometimes be a failure. (more…)
Time
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Review, Techniques, tagged Carl Rogers, counseling, counselling, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, relationships, therapy on January 6, 2010 | 2 Comments »
Nearly a quarter of a century ago the groundbreaking psychologist Carl Rogers, then 83, was recorded answering wide-ranging questions from a professional audience. Listening to the recording now, it’s remarkable how little some things have changed over the years.
Beauty
Posted in CBT, For patients, Research, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged BABCP, CBT, counseling, counselling, evidence, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, science, therapy on November 30, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Here are some links to other sites that illustrate the beauty of good science, and the ugly truth about bad science.
Anon.
Posted in CBT, For therapists, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged anonymity, blogging, Carl Rogers, CBT, conguence, counseling, counselling, delusion, entrapment, HPC, identity, mental health, mental illness, paradox, psychodynamic, psychotherapy, R.D. Laing, reality, terminology, therapy, UKCP, victim on October 24, 2009 | 8 Comments »
Ever since I started writing here, I have thought of myself as an anonymous blogger. That’s not the case at all, it turns out, as two separate things that happened to me last week revealed. The two experiences illuminated opposite sides of what it means to have an identity, and why identity is important for psychotherapists.
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