Just a note to say that this blog will return at the beginning of next year, we all hope that you enjoy the festive season and here’s to a fantastic 2007!
from Eleanor, Jane, Ivan, and all at MindFields College.
Entries from December 2006
Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!
December 21st, 2006 · 1 Comment
Tags: Seasons Greetings!
Why CBT doesn’t help GP’s to treat depression
December 19th, 2006 · 4 Comments
TEACHING GPs the skills to offer brief cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) to patients with depression has “no discernible impact” on outcome for the patients, a recent randomised controlled trial has found.[1] But, alas, instead of questioning whether there might be a more effective way for GPs to offer brief therapy for depression within their time […]
Tags: Childhood Depression · Cognitive Behavioural Therapy · APET model · Clinical Depression · CBT · Depression · Depressed · Doctors · Research
The treatment of anxiety disorders/Burning Our Money
December 15th, 2006 · No Comments
Next week I’ll be interested to watch a program on Channel 4 about several people with severe agoraphobia being treated with a “revolutionary” new treatment. See here to read an archived Human Givens Journal article about how two counsellors researched the ‘rewind technique’ for treating phobias, trauma and panic attacks (all problems stemming from anxiety), […]
Tags: New Labour · PTSD · Agoraphobia · Counsellors · Joe Griffin · Ivan Tyrrell · Panic Attacks · Phobias · Anxiety · Stress · Psychology · Mental Health · Fear · NHS · Government
The link between dreaming and depression
December 9th, 2006 · 9 Comments
Our College Principal, Ivan Tyrrell, explains why depressed people wake up still feeling exhausted and tired and discusses the link between depression and dreaming.
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Posted by: Eleanor
Tags: REM state · Emotional needs · Exhaustion · Counselling · Early waking · Childhood Depression · Psychotherapist · Ivan Tyrrell · Counsellors · Mind and Body · The Brain · Depression · Meaning · Mental Health · Psychology · Dreaming · Psychotherapy · Worrying · Clinical Depression · Depressed · Sleep
Subscribe to the Human Givens Institute e-newsletter
December 4th, 2006 · 1 Comment
The latest HGI e-newsletter has just dropped into my inbox so I thought I’d put information on how to subscribe here for anyone who wants to keep up to date with latest news about the Human Givens.
Simply click here, enter your email address into the box and you’ll recieve our regular e-newsletter which contains news, […]
Tags: Human Givens · Resources
What can Doctors do when faced with a depressed patient?
December 4th, 2006 · No Comments
Here is a moving exerpt from NHS Blog Doctor’s weekly casebook:
“I had the St John’s Wort/cow dung conversation today. Again. A rather sad woman who is not coping at work. She is not clinically depressed. She has a rotten boss, an indifferent husband and a very difficult teenage daughter. (Are any teenage daughters not difficult?).
But […]
Tags: GP · The UK Today · Clinical Depression · Doctors · Regulation · NHS · Depression
Sandwell Primary Care Trust are the first to adopt the human givens approach
December 1st, 2006 · 2 Comments
We begin December with the exciting news that Sandwell has become the first Primary Care Trust to incorporate Human Givens principles at the heart of its mental health strategy. Their realistic approach to mental health promotion is set out in Everybody’s Business: Sandwell’s Mental Health Vision 2006-2015. It has been signed up to by all […]
Tags: Human Givens · Primary Care Trusts · Therapists · NHS · Mental Health · Regulation · News