Often, when we are presented with a case it can be difficult to find a way forward. To aid clinical decisions, it is sometimes necessary to break down the decision making process into stages. The problem based learning task below does just that. Here I was given a case study and we methodically worked through […]
Month: February 2016
Worry Time
Do you find yourself spending a vast amount of your time worrying? Do you spend too much time worrying? Do you worry about a huge variety of things, from ‘what will happen if?’ scenarios, to very real situations, to your health, to your family’s safety, to money, to work, to your appearance? Do you worry […]
Which therapist should I choose?
So you’re feeling, low, anxious, scared, obsessive, self-critical, you’ve got low self esteem or maybe your relationship needs a fix. You’d like some help. You need a therapist. But where to start looking? What do you look for? What qualifications should they have? How do I know they’re any good? Here’s a step by step […]
- CBT
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“It was like being buried alive”: battle to recover from chronic fatigue syndrome
This article I found in The Guardian provides a real insight into what it can be like to experience chronic fatigue syndrome or ME. It looks at a new way of looking at the disorders,  because we are finding,  more and more, that the brain and the body do not work separately, they are interlinked and […]
Fatigue & Concentration Tips
Neurons (the cells which make up our brain) are like other cells – they are living with their own metabolism. Â They need oxygen and glucose to work and survive and when they’ve been working hard (thinking, concentrating, remembering, coping) they experience fatigue. When our neurons are fatigued, we will feel it too, our brain will […]
- Depression
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Motivation Tips
This is one of the most common difficulties reported by clients with depression. We all know how it feels too, there can be so many things to do, and what there is to do just doesn’t appeal to us. Even worse, what there is can be so overwhelming, we don’t even know where to start […]
Editable CBT worksheets
When I’m working with CBT based principles, I use a lot of CBT worksheets, and I like to give clients a choice of the format they can use. A lot of the time they like to have ready-printed sheets, but sometimes, they’re a bit more high-tech and prefer to edit them online using their smart […]
- CBT
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Medication Management and Mental Health – a problem based learning case study
Often, when we are presented with a case it can be difficult to find a way forward. To aid clinical decisions, it is sometimes necessary to break down the decision making process into stages. The problem based learning task below does just that. Here I was given a case study and we methodically worked through […]
Graded Exposure – self reflection on a CBT intervention
When learning to carry out therapeutic interventions or treatments, it’s important to understand the mechanisms of the task in detail, and what better way to get to the bottom of that than by using the technique on yourself? Here I practiced a standard CBT intervention for anxiety, Graded Exposure, and reflected so that in the […]