In training and lectures on treatment outcomes I often suggest that doing the wrong thing in sessions with clients has a bigger impact on doing the right thi...

Throughout 2019, Developing Health & Independence (DHI), have been marking their 20th anniversary as a charity by looking to the future. Through articles, ev...

It never ceases to surprise me in training and lectures when sharing well thought through, systematic, peer reviewed research findings with individual's who ...

I discuss the role of emotions in change and treatment outcomes. Particularly the importance of naming emotions in the here and now in order to discharge th...

I get asked about the issue of self-disclosure a lot in training. It is one of those difficult grey areas where people are never sure of the boundaries or t...

Anyone who has heard me speak on treatment outcomes will know of my proclivity to stress the importance of alliance in treatment outcomes, and how ruptures b...

In lectures and training in mental health I stress how current psychiatric diagnosis is really a short-hand for the presenting signs and symptoms of a patien...

Whenever someone starts to quote post-modernism / social construction theory to me, I point them in the direction of Alan Sokal. In the 1990s a physicist ca...

I often explore challenging research findings that questions some core assumptions about human development and treatment processes. I myself am challenged b...

McLellen et al 1985 research study on the power of the alliance in the treatment of clients of methadone scripts changed my view of drug treatment and what r...

New types of experiments call activity of hundreds of labs and thousands of scientific studies in neuroscience into question, and could impact research into ...

I have been meaning to include the expansive and state-of the art research from Professor William White for some time now. Whilst his work is not so well kn...

Nudge theory, a short hand for behavioral economics, has become increasingly popular in terms of understanding how to shape positive behaviors through enviro...

I recently posted a short piece on real time feedback. This research suggested that gathering feedback was not enough to improve a practitioners performance...

I was a very early adopter of real time feedback measures with clients. These tools measure the client response to treatment in each session, which allows a...

A recent conversation with a colleague reminded me of this great website that reminds us of the first law of research. Correlation is not causation. Just ...

Drugs have a wide range of side effects. However, one side effect that is rarely discussed and little known is the effect drugs can have on morality. This ...

I am a huge fan of Prof David Orlinsky's work. He has conducted extensive research on treatment processes and outcomes and his work on how psychotherapists ...

Scott Miller has forwarded this interesting study of the use of 'spin' in studies of talking cures effectiveness. Whilst conflicts of interest in the resear...