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

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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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Wearing It Differently: Talking about ACT for psychosis, clinical psychology, and career choices

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I recently had the privilege of being interviewed for “We All Wear It Differently”, a podcast for early career psychologists. Amy Felman, the enthusiastic host, created the podcast so that psychologists starting their careers could learn from experienced colleagues about the choices and opportunities that shaped their working lives. The podcast features a collection of …

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Playing it safe: why therapists don’t do exposure

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Therapy involves lots of decisions. Which interventions are introduced by the therapist – and when – can be influenced by a number of factors. Recent studies suggest some of this decision making is to do with how willing the therapist is to experience distress – either the client’s or their own (or, indeed, both!). In …

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How to make the most of clinical supervision as a psychologist

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It is the start of internal placement for a new cohort of provisional psychologists at my university. I prepared the following tips to help trainees know what to expect, and prepare for, their first supervision sessions. Learning to make the most of supervision is a core professional skill for psychologists. Throughout your career, participating in …

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Why don’t therapists use exposure? And how psychological flexibility can help.

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Exposure* is one of the most important and effective components in cognitive behavioural therapies for anxiety disorders, supported by decades of research. And yet it is under-used in clinical practice. Why? Well, it isn’t just that many therapists use approaches that are not evidence-based. It seems that even those therapists who have been trained, end …

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Starting your own ACT peer supervision group

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A challenge for UK therapists learning to do Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is access to supervision. Outside of working at the specialist clinical and research centres that focus on ACT or accessing supervision online from international trainers, there are currently very limited options to get supervision from an experienced ACT therapist. One option is to …

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