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The therapy seesaw: achieving therapeutically balanced approaches to working with emotional distress
- Authors:
- TALKES Kirsty, TENNANT Allison
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Forensic Practice, 6(3), August 2004, pp.3-12.
- Publisher:
- Emerald
Discusses barriers that can obstruct a structured therapeutic approach. Focuses on dialectical behaviour therapy as a model and discusses how the concept of 'dialectics' can provide an overriding context for case conceptualisation. Illustrates dialectical dilemmas and powerful dynamics that can be enacted between individuals, teams and patients endeavouring to cope with distress. Describes and elaborates the dialectical philosophy, providing a framework for the synthesis of clinical interpersonal encounters and metaphorical concepts of a therapy seesaw. Discusses how these ideas can guide work with emotionally distressed individuals.
Multiple choice
- Author:
- TAYLOR Amy
- Journal article citation:
- Community Care, 12.3.09, 2009, pp.28-29.
- Publisher:
- Reed Business Information
The Hartlepool branch of the mental health charity Mind uses the Human Givens framework in its mental health treatment. The approach works with the knowledge and skills people posses naturally to help them overcome problems. This combines with other therapies such as cognitive behavioural therapy and solution focused therapy, offering individuals a range of solutions. This article discusses how the approach is used.
A closer look at involuntary treatment and the use of transport service in outdoor behavioral healthcare (Wilderness Therapy)
- Authors:
- HARPER Nevin J., MAGNUSON Doug, DOBUD Will W.
- Journal article citation:
- Child and Youth Services, 42(2), 2021, pp.200-219.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Outdoor behavioral healthcare (OBH or wilderness therapy) is an out-of-home adolescent treatment option serving tens of thousands of youths annually for behavioral, substance, and mental health issues in the United States. About half of OBH participants attend involuntarily and are transported by services specialized for “uncooperative” youth. Transportation has been argued by some researchers to have little impact on youth in treatment, and Tucker and colleagues found little difference in outcomes between not transported and transported youth. Ethical and empirical concerns arise from these findings, and we apply a critical perspective to address these concerns. Specifically, we examined the claim in OBH research that being transported has no significant bearing on client treatment outcomes. We propose that the findings of no difference were random, rather than systematic, because they were constructed on a post hoc measure of perceived voluntariness. To demonstrate, we used data from OBH to construct five different measures of voluntary/involuntary, also fabricated post hoc. All five operationalizations resulted in statistically significant differences across a variety of social and psychological outcomes, demonstrating inconsistencies across the findings. Further independent and rigorous research is called for in OBH to understand the use and ethics of forced transportation, coercion, and involuntary treatment. (Edited publisher abstract)
Cognitive-behavioural approach to understanding obsessional thinking
- Authors:
- SALKOVSKIS Paul M., FORRESTER Elizabeth, RICHARDS Candida
- Journal article citation:
- British Journal of Psychiatry, 173(Supplement 35), August 1998, pp.53-63.
- Publisher:
- Cambridge University Press
Obsessional ruminations (obsessions without any accompanying overt compulsive behaviour) were previously considered especially difficult to treat. Discusses cognitive-behavioural theory regarding obsessional problem and reviews strategies for therapy developed on the basis of this theory.
Therapeutic residential care for children and youth: a consensus statement of the International Work Group on Therapeutic Residential Care
- Authors:
- WHITTAKER James K., et al
- Journal article citation:
- Residential Treatment for Children and Youth, 33(2), 2016, pp.89-106.
- Publisher:
- Taylor and Francis
- Place of publication:
- Philadelphia, USA
Sets out the principles and values that should underpin therapeutic residential care. This consensus statement adopts, as a useful starting point, Whittaker, Del Valle, & Holmes’ definition of therapeutic residential care, which is understood to involve ‘the planful use of a purposefully constructed, multi-dimensional living environment designed to enhance or provide treatment, education, socialization, support, and protection to children and youth with identified mental health or behavioral needs in partnership with their families and in collaboration with a full spectrum of community-based formal and informal helping resources.’ The principles include: ‘primum non nocere’ (first, do no harm), which entails that ‘Safety First’ should be the guiding principle in the design and implementation of all TRC programmes; a hallmark of TRC programmes—in whatever particular cultural expression they assume—is to strive constantly to forge and maintain strong and vital family linkages; services are fully anchored in the communities, cultures, and web of social relationships that define and inform the children and families we serve; TRC is at its core informed by a culture that stresses learning through living and where the heart of teaching occurs in a series of deeply personal, human relationships; the ultimate epistemological goal for therapeutic residential care is the identification of a group of evidence-based models or strategies for practice that are effective in achieving desired outcomes for youth and families, replicable from one site to another, and scalable. (Edited publisher abstract)
NICE guidelines for mental health
- Author:
- KHELE Suky
- Journal article citation:
- Therapy Today, 19(10), December 2008, pp.40-41.
- Publisher:
- British Association for Counselling and Psychotherapy
NICE have currently published 15 guidelines for the treatment of mental health and behavioural conditions. This article lists the conditions covered in each of the guidelines and the psychological therapies recommended for them.
Work and wellbeing: developing primary mental health care services
- Author:
- SAINSBURY CENTRE FOR MENTAL HEALTH
- Publisher:
- Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
- Publication year:
- 2007
- Pagination:
- 8p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Work and Wellbeing argues that the road to long-term unemployment for people with depression begins in the GP surgery with the writing of a sick note. While this may be the right thing at the time, if the person is not properly supported to get back to work as early as possible, they can find themselves excluded from their workplace and forgotten by their colleagues. Before long, they are unemployed and living on benefits. Work and Wellbeing calls for GPs to be encouraged through their contract to provide work-focused help for people signed off sick with depression. This would include the timely provision of proven psychological therapies such as CBT (cognitive behavioural therapy) and referral to employment advisors where necessary. It argues that practices should be able to make local agreements with other services to support patients back to work. This would involve local authorities and voluntary organisations to have a say in the commissioning process at practice level.
A survey of the provision of psychological treatments to older adults in the NHS
- Author:
- EVANS Sandra
- Journal article citation:
- Psychiatric Bulletin, 28(11), November 2004, pp.411-414.
- Publisher:
- Royal College of Psychiatrists
A questionnaire was sent to old age psychiatrists to ascertain their experience, views and clinical practice regarding psychological therapies in their services. The provision of psychological treatments of all modalities to older people is widely varied in Britain. The main difficulty seems to be a lack of resources, but it would appear that inexperience with psychological therapies applied to older adults is also a factor. Most mental health teams (95%) provide anxiety management therapy, and cognitive–behavioural therapy is widely available (76% of teams), but areas such as training and staff supervision appear to be poorly provided. Suggestions are made to increase provision and quality of service within existing resources; improving services to the standards of the National Service Framework would be a bigger challenge.
The effects of light therapy on depressed elders
- Authors:
- TSAI Yun-Fang, et al
- Journal article citation:
- International Journal of Geriatric Psychiatry, 19(6), June 2004, pp.516-522.
- Publisher:
- Wiley
Elderly depression has gradually become a severe issue in the health care system. No studies have focused on evaluating the effects of light therapy on the elderly with depression in a subtropical climate area. Experimental design was used. For the experimental group, patients sat in front of a light box, receiving 5000 lux in the morning. The light therapy course was administered for 50 minutes per day and lasted for 5 days. The control group did not receive any treatment. Depressive symptoms were significantly reduced in the experimental group at post-test but no significant decline was found in the control group. Based upon the results of this study, light therapy could be used to decrease depressive symptoms in the elderly.
The voice of reason
- Author:
- JAMES Adam
- Journal article citation:
- Nursing Times, 15.10.02, 2002, pp.26-27.
- Publisher:
- Nursing Times
Looks at the use of cognitive behaviour therapy in the treatment of people with psychosis.