The April BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “How to treat someone suffering with PTSD following rape in adulthood” by Kerry Young Sameena Akbar, Francesca Brady, Sophie Burrows, Zoe J.…
The March BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Introducing a psychological formulation model of maladaptive daydreaming“ by Amy Lucas and Alexandra Bone Our journey began with Amy’s doctoral thesis, delving into the uncharted depths of Maladaptive Daydreaming (MD) and ‘dark fantasy’ (Lucas, 2021).…
The December BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “‘Flashforward’ mental imagery in adolescents: exploring developmental differences and associations with mental health” by Alex Lau-Zhu, James Stacey, Daisy Gibson, Carmen Chan and Myra Cooper Current CBT interventions are often thought to rely on “verbal thinking” yet much of our mental lives is also shaped by mental images – imagining visual scenes, sounds, smells, etc.…
The October BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled ‘My climate journey: One cognitive-behavioural psychotherapist’s account and a commentary linking to the scientific and practice literature” by Claire Willsher and Mark Freeston.…
The June BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “‘Knees being set on fire’: A qualitative study exploring the impact of intrusive mental imagery on chronic pain patients” by Rita DeNicola, Simon Blackwell, Edward Hirata and Jo Daniels.…
The April BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BCP) and is entitled “’Things that shouldn’t be’: a qualitative investigation of violation-related appraisals in individuals with OCD and/or trauma histories” by Sandra Krause and Adam Radomsky.…
The March BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Equitable access to evidence-based treatment for eating disorders for patients with low-income: identifying barriers and exploring solutions” by Suzanne Bailey-Straebler, Deborah R.…
The January BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BCP) and is entitled Mapping evidence-based interventions to the care of unaccompanied minor refugees using a group formulation approach by Veronika Dobler, Judith Nestler, Maren Konzelmann and Helen Kennerley ‘Stop the boats’ slogans dominate current headlines.…
The December BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT)and is entitled Gender- and Sexuality-Minoritised Adolescents in DBT: A Reflexive Thematic Analysis of Minority-Specific Treatment Targets and Experience by Jake Camp, Andre Morris, Helen Wilde, Patrick Smith and Katharine Rimes.
The November BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled ”A more human approach … I haven’t found that really’: experiences of hoarding difficulties and seeking help” by Megan McGrath, Amy M.…
I hope my wonderful boys won’t mind my sharing these contrasting photos to give hope to clinicians and those struggling after birth related trauma.…
The September BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Exploring the supervisory relationship in the context of culturally responsive supervision: a supervisee’s perspective” by Bianca Vekaria, Tessa Thomas, Peter Phiri and Margarita Ononaiye.…
The July BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cogntive Psychotherapy and is entitled “A pilot study of experiencing racial microaggressions, obsessive-compulsive symptoms, and the role of psychological flexibility” by Morgan Browning, Elizabeth Lloyd Richardson, Sidney Satterfield and Akshay Trisal.
The June BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Moving forward with the loss of a loved one: Treating PTSD following traumatic bereavement with cognitive therapy” by Jennifer Wild, Michael Duffy and Anke Ehlers.…
The March BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “‘It’s been quite a poor show’ – exploring whether practitioners working for Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) services are culturally competent to deal with the needs of Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities” by Afsana Faheem.…
The January BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cogntive Psychotherapy (BCP) and is entitled “Echoes of shame: a comparison of the characteristics and psychological sequelae of recalled shame experiences across the voice hearing continuum” by Rachel Brand, Rosalie Altman, Carla Nardelli, Maxine Raffoul, Marcela Matos and Catherine Bortolon Over the last few years, we, among many other researchers, have been involved in the developing field of clinical and research work on trauma-related voice-hearing (hearing voices without the corresponding external stimuli, also known as auditory verbal hallucinations).…
The December BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “‘I’m unlikeable, boring, weird, foolish, inferior, inadequate’: how to address the persistent negative self-evaluations that are central to social anxiety disorder with cognitive therapy” by Emma Warnock-Parkes, Jennifer Wild, Graham Thew, Alice Kerr, Nick Grey and David M.…
The November BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Embedding the silver thread in all-age psychological services: training and supervising younger therapists to deliver CBT for anxiety or depression to older people with multi-morbidity” by Georgina Charlesworth Older people respond better to psychological therapy than working age adults – a consistent evidence-based conclusion from analyses of large datasets and national surveys.…
The October BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “School-based victimization in children and adolescents presenting for cognitive behavioural treatment of anxiety disorders” by Caroline Hunt, Kay Bussey, Lorna Peters, Jonathan Gaston, Alice Lo and Ronald M.…
The September BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “Understanding agoraphobic avoidance: the development of the Oxford Cognitions and Defences Questionnaire (O-CDQ)” by Rosebrock, L.,…
The July BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “IAPT CBT treatment for PTSD following COVID-19-related intensive care admission – a case study” by Lilian Skilbeck and Suzanne Byrne.…
The May BABCP blog article is written by Ashley Fulwood and discusses an article from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist, “Understanding why people with OCD do what they do, and why other people get involved: supporting people with OCD and loved ones to move from safety-seeking behaviours to approach-supporting behaviours” by Nicola Philpot, Richard Thwaites and Mark Freeston.…
The April BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “Service support, work engagement and psychological wellbeing: validating an index of resource and infrastructure support for the delivery of CBT” by Ffion Evans, Helen Penny and Louise Waddington.…
How practical changes can result in significant environmental gains.
We are pleased to announce the launch of the ‘Advances in Digital CBT’ special issue of the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist.…
The February BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Interpreter-mediated CBT – a practical implementation guide for working with spoken language interpreters” by Beverley Costa.…
The January BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BCP) and is entitled “OCD, death anxiety, and attachment: what’s love got to do with it?”…
The December BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Frontline yet at the back of the queue – improving access and adaptations to CBT for Black African and Caribbean communities” by Leila Lawton, Melissa McRae and Lorraine Gordon The thirst for us to write this paper extends beyond our professional roles having witnessed (and continuing to witness) the devastating consequences of poor mental health within our Black African and Caribbean families and communities. The…
The November BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Survivor guilt: a cognitive approach” by Hannah Murray, Yasmin Pethania and Evelina Medin The first client I saw with survivor guilt was a military veteran who had swapped patrols with a fellow soldier, only for his friend to be killed in an explosion.…
The October BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy (BCP) and is entitled “A compassionate imagery intervention for patients with persecutory delusions” by Ava Forkert, Poppy Brown, Daniel Freeman and Felicity Waite “I don’t feel quite so threatened as I did.…
The September BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “A Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) approach for working with strong feelings of guilt after traumatic events” by Kerry Young, Zoe J.…
We at tCBT are acutely aware that the prevalence of mental health issues in children and young people (CYP) is on the rise (NHS Digital, 2020).…
Low Intensity CBT Practitioners, such as Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners (PWPs) working within the IAPT programme, continue to make a significant contribution to the mental health landscape.…
The May BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “The barriers, benefits and training needs of clinicians delivering psychological therapy via video” by Joshua Buckman, Rob Saunders, Judy Leibowitz and Rebecca Minton As lockdowns were announced in response to COVID-19, services had to radically change how psychological treatment was provided, moving from face-to-face to remote delivery.…
The April BABCP Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “Delivering cognitive therapy for adolescent social anxiety disorder in NHS CAMHS: a clinical and cost analysis” by Eleanor Leigh, Cathy Creswell, Paul Stallard, Polly Waite, Mara Violato, Samantha Pearcey, Emma Brooks, Lucy Taylor, Emma Warnock-Parkes and David M.…
The March 2021 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Unaccompanied minors’ experiences of narrative exposure therapy” by Glorianne Said, Yaman Alqadri and Dorothy King We are aware that post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is a difficulty many unaccompanied asylum-seeking minors (UAM) experience (Fazel, Reed, Panter-Brick, & Stein, 2012; Huemer et al.,…
The February BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Cognitive Therapy for Moral Injury in Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder” by Hannah Murray and Anke Ehlers Media images of healthcare professionals overwhelmed and exhausted by a relentless torrent of seriously ill and dying patients have filled our screens over recent weeks.…
The January 2021 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Preventing harm related to CBT supervision: a theoretical review and preliminary framework” by Derek Milne Reflecting on this review paper, I feel like making a confession.…
The December 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled “Culturally adapted trauma-focused CBT-based guided self-help (CatCBT GSH) for female victims of domestic violence in Pakistan: feasibility randomized controlled trial” by Madeeha Latif, M.…
The November BABCP Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist and is entitled “Cultural competency in the treatment of obsessive-compulsive disorder: practitioner guidelines” by Monnica T.…
The October 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Remote delivery of CBT training, clinical supervision and services: in times of crisis or business as usual” by Paul Cromarty, Dominic Gallagher and Julianne Watson.…
The September 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapy and is entitled ‘Practitioner Review: Health Anxiety in Children and Young People in the Context of the COVID-19 Pandemic’ by Andy Haig-Ferguson, Kate Cooper, Emma Cartwright, Maria Loades and Jo Daniels.…
The August 2020 British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “Treating social anxiety disorder remotely with cognitive therapy” by Emma Warnock-Parkes, Jennifer Wild, Graham R.…
The July British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) Article of the Month is from the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT) and is entitled “OCD and COVID-19: a new frontier” by Amita Jassi, Khodayar Shahriyarmolki, Tracey Taylor, Lauren Peile, Fiona Challacombe, Bruce Clark and David Veale This article came to life on the back of discussions within the National Highly Specialised Services for severe OCD/BDD teams at the start of the pandemic.…
My name is Pam Myles and I am the new Editor-in-Chief for the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist (tCBT), an e-journal published by Cambridge Journals for the BABCP (British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies).…
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
In this post Niva Golan-Nadir and Daniel Smith expand on their recent Politics and Religion article ‘From religious to secular perspectives of religion and state – tracing the American Blue law‘.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
Even though findings from genetics and other sciences unequivocally refute biological conceptions of race, this erroneous viewpoint remains widespread among the general public.…
Some disability-related names have dropped out of usage, because they are now considered to be offensive due to their origins. Down Syndrome (Trisomy 21) is one example.…
How long will humankind survive? Besides the fact that we have been able to eliminate ourselves with nuclear weapons for decades, even without a third world war, the challenge to take care of the resources of our planet remains; we need to use them in a way that our children and their children can have a place on Earth as well. In this blog post Andreas Losch discusses his recent review article in the International Journal of Astrobiology, The need of an ethics of planetary sustainability
It is an article of faith among ordinary Filipinos that American troops will die with Filipino troops defending Philippine claims to the Spratly Islands in the South China Sea (SCS).…
More and more research is finding inflammation as a potential contributing factor towards to the development of various mental illnesses. A systematic review was conducted to determine the association between parasitic infection and mental illnesses in various African populations. Two parasite groups were evaluated; helminths and protozoans, and four mental illness classifications; depressive disorders, anxiety disorders, schizotypal disorders and unspecified mental illnesses.
Q&A with Editor-in-Chief of the Precision Medicine Journal, Dame Anna Dominiczak, for International day of Women and Girls in Science
This is the first post in our new series: “Conversations with Authors.” For our inaugural post, we asked Dr. Vesla Weaver to meet (virtually) with Dr.…
The March article of Muses – the arts blog from BJPsych International is the first blog of the series. The blog is written by Dr Dami Ajayi, Specialty Doctor, Barnet Enfield and Haringey Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust and Trainee/Blog Editor, BJPsych International.…
The English language contains a wealth of insults and terms of abuse. Personal insults attack the core and immutable aspects of a person, such as their race, ethnicity, appearance, age, or a disability.…
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