A better way to measure mindfulness: a short form of the five facet questionnaire
Originally added on Tue, 25/10/2011 - 05:34Last updated on Fri, 09/12/2011 - 07:00
A short 24-item version of the Five facet mindfulness questionnaire - the FFMQ-SF - is downloadable both as a Word doc and in PDF format.
A better way to measure self-compassion
Originally added on Thu, 15/04/2010 - 12:49Last updated on Mon, 03/05/2010 - 14:36
Three interesting websites: DSM-5 development, group therapy, and 'get self-help'
Originally added on Tue, 06/04/2010 - 04:22Last updated on Wed, 07/04/2010 - 04:54
Here are three websites that I have recently found interesting. The first two are possibly more for therapists, while the third can be very helpful for therapists and general public alike.
Handouts & questionnaires for improved assessment & monitoring of panic disorder
Originally added on Mon, 28/12/2009 - 07:58Last updated on Thu, 21/01/2010 - 12:48
For quite some time, I've used Katherine Shear's "Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS)" as my main way of assessing and monitoring the severity of panic disorder. I've recently woken up to the fact that there is a specifically designed "Self Report" version of this scale. It is copyrighted, but Dr Shear has given permission for clinicians to use the scale freely in their practice and for researchers to use it in non-industry settings. For other uses of the scale, Dr Shear should be contacted. Click on "Panic Disorder Severity Scale - Self Report (PDSS-SR)" to download a PDF of this excellent assessment measure
Handouts & questionnaires for outcome tracking: depression, mania, side-effects, anxiety, worry, alcohol, sleep, gambling & more
Originally added on Mon, 21/12/2009 - 06:47Last updated on Thu, 24/12/2009 - 06:35
Well, well, well ... what a lot of amazing information there is out there on the internet. I was trawling to try to find the copyright position of the Panic Disorder Severity Scale (more on this soon in a future post) when I tumbled into Mark Zimmerman's "Outcome Tracker" website. Mark is "Associate Professor of Psychiatry and Human Behavior at Brown University, the Director of Outpatient Psychiatry at Rhode Island Hospital, and Principal Investigator of the Rhode Island Methods to Improve Diagnostic Assessment and Services (MIDAS) project."
Handouts and internet resources for healthy eating
Originally added on Mon, 07/12/2009 - 07:07Last updated on Mon, 11/04/2011 - 09:17
Two good psychology websites: BPS & handouts galore!
Originally added on Sun, 08/11/2009 - 05:29Last updated on Fri, 13/11/2009 - 06:06
Here are a couple of good psychology websites that I've come across recently. One is the British Psychological Society's Research Digest Blog with its tag line "Bringing you reports on the latest psychology research." The site provides an almost daily, brief description of a particularly interesting recent psychology research paper. Examples in November include "Performing horizontal eye movement exercises can boost your creativity", "How to increase altruism in toddlers", and "Facial emotional expressions are universal and culturally specific". The site also provides "taster pages" from the monthly magazine "The Psychologist", a list advertising jobs for psychologists, links to a variety of other psychology websites, a whole variety of learning resources, and a bunch of other fun things like "What is the mos
Handouts & questionnaires for depression, CBASP & neuroscience
Originally added on Mon, 18/05/2009 - 09:24Last updated on Tue, 08/12/2009 - 06:16
Handouts & questionnaires for pain information & assessment (1st post)
Originally added on Mon, 13/04/2009 - 14:18Last updated on Sat, 18/04/2009 - 14:20
For many years my work split fairly evenly between helping people with psychological difficulties and helping people with pain problems. Quite a few people were troubled with both. In the last several years I have done much less work with pain, although I still see some people for overall pain management. This has been partly because I was trying to keep up-to-date with too many fields, so stepping back from pain work made sense. It has also been partly because the flourishing of research into happiness & wellbeing has fascinated me and taken up time. Here are a collection of pain-associated assessment and information sheets that I accumulated over the years. They are obviously relevant for work with pain, and some (e.g. one year symptom diary) can be adapted for work with stress & psychological difficulties.
IBS severity score & background - this is a scale that was used by Professor Whorwell and his research team in Manchester.
Handouts & questionnaires for assessment of depression
Originally added on Mon, 06/04/2009 - 11:04Last updated on Fri, 10/04/2009 - 11:08