collaborative practice

The effects of improving sleep on mental health

The full title of this paper – published Sept.  2017 in The Lancet Psychiatry – is “The effects of improving sleep on mental health (OASIS): a randomised controlled trial with mediation analysis”. “Background Sleep difficulties might be a contributory causal factor in the…
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Autistic people listen to their hearts to test anti-anxiety therapy

A trial seeks further proof that tuning into our internal organs’ activity can reduce anxiety … Hannah Devlin reports for The Guardian: “A pioneering therapy aimed at lowering anxiety by tuning into your own heartbeat is being put to the test…
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We Need a Thorough Investigation of the STAR*D Scandal

This article by Robert Whitaker in the May 2011 edition of Psychology Today is well worth reading, despite it being published over seven years ago. Subtitled “Should reports from the NIMH’s STAR*D trial be retracted?”, it begins: “For some time now,…
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The Developing Practitioner

Written by Michael Helge Ronnestad and Thomas Skovholt, this book is subtitled “Growth and Stagnation of Therapists and Counsellors” … not least because its scope includes a valuing of the mental and emotional health of practitioners. The publishers say that…
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Clarifying the concepts, epistemology and lexicon of person-centeredness

The full title of this editorial in the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare is “Clarifying the concepts, epistemology and lexicon of person-centeredness: an essential pre-requisite for the effective operationalization of PCH within modern healthcare systems” Written by Andrew Miles and…
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New study provides evidence that art courses can improve mental wellbeing

An article (March 2018) by Rachel Sumner on the PsyPost website says: “Researchers at the University of Gloucestershire have recently evaluated data from nearly 1,300 primary care patients in South West England, finding a course of arts-on-prescription to provide a significant…
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When doctors mislead; the chemical imbalance lie

In this conference paper by Leonie Fennell and Maria Bradshaw (March 2015, Wicklow, Dublin, Ireland), the authors write: “Introduction – The Telling & Selling of a Lie The instinct to protect your child is strong and primal in most human beings. When faced…
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Contextualising science in the aftermath of the evidence-based medicine era: On the need for person-centred healthcare

This article by Andrew Miles and Jonathan Elliott Asbridge – published December 2013 in the European Journal for Person Centered Healthcare – is relevant to both mental and biophysical healthcare. It begins: “How are we to deal with what Charon [1] has called…
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A new therapy for each patient: evidence‐based relationships and responsiveness

“A new therapy for each patient: evidence‐based relationships and responsiveness” is the title of an article by John Norcross and Bruce Wampold that has recently (October 2018) been published in the Journal of Clinical Psychology . The article’s abstract says: “In this study, we…
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