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• Bessel van der Kolk: A Personal Invitation
  Trauma is an inability to inhabit one’s body without being possessed by its defenses and the emotional numbing that shuts down all experience, including pleasure and satisfaction. […]
• Carl Rogers and the Person-Centred Approach
  In this broadcast from BBC Radio 4, Claudia Hammond examines the work of Carl Rogers' revolutionary approach to psychotherapy. […]
• Eating Disorders and Motivational Interviewing
  Eating disorder clients show higher treatment completion rate with Motivational Interviewing (more than double). Motivational Interviewing (MI) can be a useful intervention to engage individuals with severe eating disorders prior to participation in intensive treatment. […]
• Depression in Patients with Coronary Heart Disease
  The prevalence of depression is high in patients with coronary heart disease and it has a significant impact on the patient’s quality of life, adherence to therapy, and an independent effect on prognosis. The National Heart Foundation of Australia offer a practical easy to use 9 item tool for screening. […]
• The Link between Sleep and Alzheimer’s: it’s a Vicious Cycle
  A build-up of beta-amyloid on the brain, thought to be essential in the development of Alzheimer’s disease, can prevent deep sleep. This in turn leads to an impaired ability to expel this toxic protein. […]
• Weight gain… important treatment implications
  After a night of bad sleep, the hormone that controls appetite is adversely affected, and emotional stress is heightened. […]
• Hallucinogens Treating Alcohol Dependence: A Proof-of-Concept Study
  There has also been a renewed interest from researchers into the so-called ‘classic hallucinogens’ – LSD, mescalin, DMT and especially psilocybin - for use in a range of treatment applications of late. […]
• Methamphetamine Dependence Treated with ADHD Medication
  A 2015 study published in the DARU Journal of Pharmaceutical Sciences from the Faculty of Sciences presented a random, double blind, placebo-controlled analysis of the treatment process involving participants with a methamphetamine dependency and sustained-release methylphenidate (MPH-SR). […]
• Motivational Interviewing: hypertensive patients’ self-care agency
  Motivational Interviewing & hypertensive patients' lifestyle changes. […]
• Motivational Interviewing: helping smokers quit
  Motivational Interviewing and smoking behaviour. […]
• Are you Stressed and Hooked on Sugar?
  The connection between increased sugar consumption and stress. […]