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What Can Carl Rogers Teach Therapists About Trauma?

Author: Editorial 5th October 2023 0 Comments

“Carl Rogers showed how people grow following adversity.” This article by Dr. Stephen Joseph has been published in Psychology Today. It begins: “KEY POINTS Posttraumatic growth refers to positive psychological changes following trauma. Carl Rogers described the process of breakdown and…
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Carl Rogers, counseling, counselling, humanistic psychology, person-centred counselling, Psychology Today, Stephen Joseph, Talking Therapies

Introduction to pluralism (in counselling and psychotherapy)

Author: Editorial 25th September 2023 0 Comments

This short (4 minute) video “introduces the pluralistic approach to counselling and psychotherapy”:

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Clients & Patients, counseling, counselling, Mick Cooper, Pluralistic Practice, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies, videos

Pluralistic Practice: The Inventory of Preferences: An International Evaluation

Author: Editorial 22nd September 2023 0 Comments

This blog-post from Prof. Mick Cooper has been published on the website of Pluralistic Practice. It begins: “Over the past few years, a team of us have been working together to bring together all the datasets on the Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP) . The…
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Cooper-Norcross Inventory of Preferences (C-NIP), counseling, counselling, John Norcross, Mick Cooper, Pluralistic Practice, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

Changing the topic does not change the facts

Author: Editorial 30th June 2023 0 Comments

This letter to The Lancet Psychiatry (journal) comes from Dr. Jonanathan Shedler. It begins: “In a Comment published in The Lancet Psychiatry, Scott Lilienfeld and colleagues 1 wrote that I encouraged psychotherapists to ignore new practice guidelines for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) because…
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CBT, cognitive behavioural therapy, counseling, counselling, Jonathan Shedler, psychotherapy, Randomised Control Trials (RCTs), Talking Therapies, The Lancet Psychiatry

The Tyranny of Time: How Long Does Effective Therapy Really Take?

Author: Editorial 16th June 2023 0 Comments

This article by Jonathan Shedler & Enrico Gnaulati has been published in Psychotherapy Networker. It begins: “It’s been a long time since a systematic study asked clients whether they were actually getting what they needed from their psychotherapy. To be precise,…
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Clients & Patients, Consumer Reports, counseling, counselling, Enrico Gnaulati, Jonathan Shedler, long-termism, psychotherapy, Psychotherapy Networker, Research, short-termism, Talking Therapies

The Effectiveness of an Intensive Inpatient Psychotherapy Program for Chronic Depression: A naturalistic comparison with wait list

Author: Editorial 12th December 2022 0 Comments

This paper has been published by BMC Psychiatry. The abstract says: “Background Patients with chronic depression (CD) typically have an early symptom onset, more psychiatric comorbidities, more treatment attempts, and more frequent and longer inpatient hospitalizations than patients with major depressive…
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affect phobia therapy, BMC Psychiatry, chronic depression, counseling, counselling, depression, psychotherapy, Research, Talking Therapies, VITA

Words As Eggs: Psyche in Language and Clinic

Author: Editorial 19th August 2022 0 Comments

This book comes from Russell A. Lockhart. The publishers say: “Quietly passionate and urgently intent, this book belongs to the very best tradition of depth psychology. It appeals first of all to the intelligently psychological reader who wants new modes of…
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books, counseling, counselling, depth psychology, psychology, Russell A. Lockhart, Talking Therapies

Schopenhauer’s Porcupines: Intimacy and Its Dilemmas: Intimacy And Its Dilemmas: Five Stories Of Psychotherapy

Author: Editorial 22nd June 2022 0 Comments

This book has been written by . The publishers say: “Each generation of therapists can boast of only a few writers like Deborah Luepnitz, whose sympathy and wit shine through a fine, luminous prose. In Schopenhauer’s Porcupines she recounts five true…
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books, counseling, counselling, Deborah Anna Luepnitz, intimacy, psychotherapy, Talking Therapies

A walk on the wild side

Author: Editorial 16th June 2022 0 Comments

“A walk on the wild side” is an article by Nick Tarrant, in Therapy Today. It begins: “It’s a winter evening – cold, dark and raining – and we’re camped out on a piece of private land in rural Wiltshire. A…
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counselling, ecotherapy, Nick Tarrant, Talking Therapies, Therapy Today, wilderness therapy

Psychotherapy Relationships that Work: Volume 1: Evidence-Based Therapist Contributions … 3rd Edition

Author: Editorial 13th September 2021 0 Comments

This book [August 2019] has been edited by John Norcross and Michael Lambert. The publishers say: “First published in 2002, the landmark Psychotherapy Relationships That Work broke new ground by focusing renewed and corrective attention on the substantial research behind the crucial (but…
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books, counseling, counselling, evidence-based practice, John Norcross, Michael Lambert, psychotherapy, Research