Can Low Empathy Be Toxic?
In Training and in Reflective Practice sessions the issue of empathy, relationships and outcomes is often discussed. This is...
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Phil Harris
- Apr 27, 2020
- 2 min
Training Matters (Of Course)
I always beleive that there are a lot of benefits to traning other than skills learning that are seldom explored. There is the obvious...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 19, 2019
- 3 min
Matching Traits to Careers
Traits are often much stronger than talents in predicting where people are most happiest. When developing peoples sense of their future...
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Phil Harris
- Oct 5, 2018
- 1 min
Does University Education Pay Off?
Young people are often expected to attend university to improve their future economic status. In the UK, only 13 per cent of jobs...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 1, 2018
- 5 min
Free Online Compassion Training from the Center for Healthy Minds
Working with trauma is hard. Being exposed to the pain and suffering others can have significant impact on us as a worker and as a human...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 21, 2018
- 3 min
Do No Harm: Do Charitable Services Really Help?
Charities often operate from the basic assumption that any interventions in a vulnerable person life is somehow beneficial. I hate the...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 10, 2018
- 3 min
Caffeine: The Highs and the Lows
As someone who drinks way to much coffee I was intrigued by a number of caffeine related research studies that were published this week...
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Phil Harris
- May 9, 2018
- 2 min
Echo Chambers of the Mind
I often explore challenging research findings that questions some core assumptions about human development and treatment processes. I...
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Phil Harris
- Apr 11, 2018
- 1 min
Organisational Culture in an Age of Austerity: Free E-Book from the RAND Institute
Whilst the field at large is dominated by the ideals of evidence based practices, the process of implementing it within a work force is...
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Phil Harris
- Dec 22, 2017
- 1 min
Trauma is Contagious
Working with trauma in both mental health and the addiction field leaves imprints. This fascinating article in the Atlantic examines the...
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Phil Harris
- Sep 1, 2017
- 1 min
Visualization: A Better Way to Learn
A little known theory of learning is making a come back in understanding learning. Perceptual Control Theory can be applied to amateurs...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 27, 2017
- 1 min
Feedback is Not Enough (Revisited)
I recently posted a short piece on real time feedback. This research suggested that gathering feedback was not enough to improve a...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 26, 2017
- 1 min
Beyond Feedback: How to Maximize Outcomes Through Reflective Practice
I was a very early adopter of real time feedback measures with clients. These tools measure the client response to treatment in each...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 24, 2017
- 1 min
Are You an Ant or Grasshoper? Decision Making Styles Examined
Decision making is at the heart of many of the interventions I teach, like Motivational Interviewing.However people have different styles...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 24, 2017
- 1 min
Invite to Speak at the Royal College of GPs
I have just been invited to speak at the Royal College of GPs 10th PCCSF conference in Birmingham.The theme is Safeguarding Adolescents...
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Phil Harris
- Jul 12, 2017
- 1 min
Do You Ever Feel Like a Big Fish in a Small Pond?
Ever felt like a big fish in a small pond in the work place? Recent research has cast light on this work place experience where the...
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Phil Harris
- Jun 15, 2017
- 2 min
Groupthink verses the Wisdom of Crowds
I really loved the book Superforecasting by Philip Tetlock and Dan Gardner. In response to US Intelligence agencies failings, the...
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