Everything we do is about mental health. These articles explore specific issues, approaches and research that can be useful to understand from a mental health perspective when implementing ACT.
The stark reality: understanding the prevalence of suicide and self-harm The National Confidential Inquiry into Suicide and Safety in Mental Health1 looks at data from the years 2009 to 2019. It is worth considering that the landscape of mental health during the COVID pandemic and in the aftermath, has definitely become bleaker. Factors such as […]
Your opinion of perfectionism may well depend on your age, sex and economic ‘success’ in life. To the comfortably off, professional middle class or recently retired age groups, working long and hard hours “never did anyone any harm”. If you’re in your twenties and early thirties, it may be a completely different story. This constant […]
Brief summary of the paper: This review evaluates literature on the use of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) to treat adult obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). The review includes both published articles and unpublished theses and dissertations to increase the breadth of the review. 17 studies with 336 participants were included The current evidence suggests that ACT can be used to […]
Dr Joe Oliver and Dr Ray Owen are thrilled with the success of their charity training event, “Facing the Storm” in aid of the Developing Nations Training Fund. Over 450 health and social care professionals, community support workers and spiritual carers attended and US $5,000 (£4,000) was raised to fund scholarships for professionals in the […]
We are making decisions the whole time. Tea or coffee? Netflix or news? Sit on the chair or the sofa? Scratch that itch with the left hand or the right – or not at all? Many of these decisions are unnoticeably small, and their consequences are slight. Other decisions may seem small but can have […]
We are supporting the Developing Nations Training Fund by running a webinar for health and social care professionals, community support workers and spiritual carers who support people with major life crises. The workshop, Facing the Storm, is being presented by Dr Ray Owen who is an expert working with palliative care patients and people facing […]
The picture currently painted by NHS Digital1 in England is clear; sadly the scale of poor mental health in our population of children and young people is staggering. In their report dated November 22 from the MHCYP 2017 survey, which has data from 2017, 2020 and 2021, 18% of children between 7 and 16 and […]
While co-operation, as a set of behaviours, is not unique to humans, the degree to which we co-operate is. The vehicle for this is human language, which developed out of the need of our ancestors to convey increasingly complex and abstract notions to others in their group. Higher level abstract communication allowed for the development […]
For a psychological therapist, burnout is a very real possibility. A recent study of CBT practitioners in the UK found that between 50-70% of therapists reported burnout symptoms (Westwood, Morison, Alt & Holmes, 2017). That’s a very high amount! Burnout is a phenomenon whereby we are no longer about to meet the demands of the […]
with Annie Gascoyne & Ross McIntosh Here’s our curated selection of People Soup Podcast episodes that we thought might be particularly useful for those who are already signed up for Flexibility @ Work or those who are mulling it over. We hope you enjoy this selection and look forward to seeing you soon. Who could […]
Not lost in Values – On lifelong skills training and comparison I’ll begin with a confession: I can’t stop comparing the different ways of working between Spain and the UK, I can’t. I am even writing about it. I know I shouldn´t be letting this happens! But I must admit that I’ve been struggling with […]
I was lost in translation (well, I still am) – what I didn’t know is that I was also going to be: Lost in Conferences Hello again! In my previous post I introduced myself and explained a little bit about what is bringing me to the UK this summer along with the first contacts […]
Impressions of a Spanish ACT psychologist in London I am Helena Colodro, I am an ACT psychologist from Spain, spending the summer of 2017 in London collaborating with Joe Oliver, Director of Contextual Consulting. I’m here on a project from the European Union, Erasmus Entrepreneur, a grant that is allowing me to immerse myself in […]
by Jon Hill, Blueprint Coaching I am 90% certain that Russ Harris did not come all the way from Australia to England, and give up two days of his life just to be in a position where he could stand on a stage and instruct 150 well educated men and women to pretend to be […]
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