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 ‘feelings’
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 »
Investment
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Review, Techniques, tagged Carl Rogers, case study, diagnosis, emotion, feelings, mental health, mental illness, psychology, psychotherapy, therapy on June 8, 2011 | Leave a Comment »
If you’re a therapist, how much of yourself do you invest in a session with a patient who’s hard to reach?
If you’re a patient, how much effort does your therapist make to understand what it’s like to be you?
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.
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.
Authenticity
Posted in For patients, Review, tagged emotion, feelings, paradox, psychotherapy, relationships, shame, TED, therapy on December 26, 2010 | 3 Comments »
In talk from June’s TED in Houston, sociology researcher and storyteller Brené Brown explains how she discovered that vulnerability is the key to feeling connection with other people, to having a sense of love and belonging.
Wisdom
Posted in CBT, depression, For patients, For therapists, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged CBT, emotion, feelings, mental health, mental illness, psychiatry, psychotherapy, recovery, relationships, therapy, victim on July 14, 2010 | 1 Comment »
There was a psychiatrist (now retired) whose referrals for psychotherapy would include helpful advice about how CBT treatment should proceed. Alas, this psychiatrist had only the vaguest idea about how CBT works, and the advice invariably missed the point.
Storage
Posted in CBT, depression, For therapists, Techniques, tagged CBT, childhood, emotion, feelings, mental illness, psychology, psychotherapy, relationships, therapy on June 28, 2010 | 4 Comments »
As the warm weather here continues, I naturally have thoughts of chilly places — cold storage for example. We put things in cold storage so that they will still be fresh when we retrieve them.
Phew!
Posted in For patients, For therapists, Review, Techniques, UK, tagged Carl Rogers, case study, feelings, mental health, mental illness, psychotherapy, recovery, therapy, zen on June 27, 2010 | 1 Comment »
It’s a very warm day here today, by UK standards, too warm to stay outside. So here I am, catching up on the huge backlog of blogs in my reader. Time was, I followed just a few mental health bloggers, reading everything. But I gradually added more and more feeds until now there is just too much to take in.
The trouble is, all of it is important — important enough for those bloggers to write about and share with the world, and surely important enough for me to read. Nevertheless, it’s a task in which I fail.
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…)
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