Clients & Patients

Integrating Counselling & Psychotherapy: Directionality, Synergy and Social Change

Written by Prof. Mick Cooper, this book has just arrived (March 2019). Sage Publications say: “How can therapists integrate theories and practices from across the psychological therapies? This book presents a framework for understanding distress and change that can unite different orientations,…
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Therapists want guidance on prescription psychiatric drugs, survey confirms

Ella Rhodes, writing in  The Psychologist , on a survey led by the All-Party Parliamentary Group for Prescribed Drug Dependence: “Early findings from a recent survey of practising therapists provides compelling evidence that guidance for therapists to support them dealing with clients…
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Co-Production in Mental Health

The full title of this report from the New Economics Foundation (NEF) is “Co-Production in Mental Health: A Literature Review”. It was commissioned by the mental health charity Mind. The NEF understands co-production to be “a relationship where professionals and citizens…
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Varieties of Anomalous Experience

In the video below you can watch Dr. Etzel Cardeña, Thorsen Professor of Psychology at Lund University, Sweden, as he talks about a variety of what are sometimes called – in psychological terms – “anomalous experiences”. His talk links to…
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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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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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It’s All in Your Head – True Stories of Imaginary Illnesses

Mental health issues affect far more people than just those seen by psychiatrists and other mental health professionals. And such issues manifest themselves in a wide variety of ways beyond the standard diagnostic symptoms beloved of psychiatrists … ways that…
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