Five ways to improve clinical supervision using contextual behavioural science: the SHAPE framework

How can the process of clinical supervision be enhanced? It is widely recognised regular supervision is useful for psychological practitioners to offer safe and effective services. Supervision provides relationship-based education and training that supports, manages, develops and evaluates the supervisee and their work. The skilled supervisor fosters a relationship with a supervisee that allows for …

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Can Relational Frame Theory help us to understand delusions?

How can we understand delusional beliefs in behavioural terms? A recent paper published in the Journal of Contextual Behavioral Science by Corinna Stewart, Ian Stewart and Sean Hughes presents a “call to action” for taking a natural science approach to discerning persecutory delusions, by outlining the directions that contemporary contextual research on language and cognition …

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LinkFest! August 2014

I regularly tweet new and interesting papers relevant to clinical psychology and my interests. These are the cool papers and links from August 2014. Follow me on Twitter for a daily update! Acceptance and Commitment Therapy, RFT, CBS etc “ACT is not yet a well-established treatment for any disorder” Öst 2014, updated meta-analysis http://j.mp/1pju8UW Physiological …

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Four ways Acceptance and Commitment Therapy can help people struggling with suspicious thoughts

Feeling on edge while walking down an empty street at night; thinking you are being gossiped about at work; feeling like you need to be on guard around certain people… Worrying that others are intending to do us harm is a surprisingly common experience. Acting on these concerns can be helpful – checking things out …

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The building blocks of empathy, mindfulness and compassion: paving the way with Relational Frame Theory

Last Friday I was fortunate to hear Louise McHugh speak at UCL about the bottom-up approach of Relational Frame Theory (RFT) to understanding mindfulness and the self. Louise’s excellent talk, hosted by the BABCP ACT Special Interest Group, demonstrated how the contextual behavioural science approach is making progress in identifying the building blocks for skills …

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