Prolonged Grief Disorder: Recognition & Treatment
This article aims to summarise the evidence-based paradigm shift in our understanding of loss and grief (culminating in recent changes to diagnostic criteria for psychological...
Read moreCategory: Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT)
Cognitive Behaviour Therapy. Evidence-based treatment approach to addressing cognitive distortions. Based on premise that thoughts influence feelings and behaviour and emotions can in turn influence thoughts. Distressing emotions and maladaptive behaviours are the result of faulty thinking. Techniques include exposure, activity scheduling, relaxation, and behaviour modification. Includes metacognitive therapy and skills training.
Coping with Work Stress
Given our perception that our bosses affect our mental health as much as our partners/spouses (69 percent(1.)), it is unsurprising that the far-reaching impact of...
Read morePTSD Symptoms in Women: the Unique Signs
With the 2020 Productivity Commission’s Inquiry into Australian Mental Health highlighting the need to address trauma as a major social and environmental determinant of poor...
Read moreThe Psychology of Wokeness
By adopting a research domain criteria approach, this scoping review of mainstream and grey literature aims to facilitate a more cogent understanding of the (relatively...
Read moreUnderstanding Gambling Disorder
Within the context of recent debate around regulation of the (arguably profligate) technology-enabled gambling industry, this article aims to summarise the current evidence-base informing therapeutic...
Read moreNavigating Family Conflict
Integral to building strong family supports, this article aims to summarise current research and best practice in navigating family conflict. Like all the best families,...
Read moreDealing with Impulsiveness
Impulsiveness (or impulsivity- the terms are used interchangeably), like most human behavioural traits, is distributed continuously in the population and becomes impairing only when expressed...
Read moreSport & Exercise Injury: Recovery & Resilience
Summarising current evidence-based strategies for recovery from injury, this article challenges mainstream views of risk/benefit in the pursuit of wellbeing through sport and exercise. Traditionally...
Read moreBuilding Family Support Systems
Regardless of our definitions of family, kinship, bonding and attachment, this article places parenting at the centre of family support systems and aims to inspire...
Read moreAnxiety and Relationships: Building Supportive Connections
Striking at the very heart of building and maintaining a healthy ‘romantic’ relationship is the negative effect of anxiety on our ability to communicate, trust,...
Read moreExercise as an Adjunct to Anxiety Treatment
By now most of us have been sold on the health benefits of exercise, including its anxiety-reducing effect. For the ‘worried well’, it’s a 'no-brainer'....
Read moreEMDR in the Treatment of Addiction
This article summarises current research into the effectiveness of eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) as a therapeutic approach to substance/behaviour addiction. Redefining addiction Now...
Read moreEMDR: the History and Science
It may be argued that two millennia of epistemological apocrypha- from Hippocrates and Plato’s challenge to Aristotelian thinking that the brain is the center of...
Read moreFaking it!
The term “impostor phenomenon” was coined in 1978 by Georgia State University psychology professor Pauline Clance and psychologist Suzanne Imes in a study of high-achieving...
Read moreWhat Happens in Your Brain and Body When a Relationship Ends?
If you or someone you care about is in a relationship that isn’t the healthiest partnership going around, you’ve probably realised that there isn’t an...
Read moreHow to cope with stress?
Stress is a normal part of life. Everyone feels stress from time to time and some stress is motivating and helpful to get tasks done....
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