The very latest news from the world of Psychology. Private Therapy Clinic blog offers information about psychological concepts, theories, therapeutic approaches and human behaviour. The articles and vides posted here also offer tips and advice written by registered Psychologist Dr. Becky Spelman and our team of Psychiatrists, Psychologists and Psychotherapists.
Dialectical behaviour therapy is one of the most studied psychological treatments for borderline personality disorder, and the evidence that it helps is good, particularly for reducing self-harm and crisis behaviour. What far fewer people are told is that DBT works in a particular sequence, and that the part most people find hardest tends to arrive…
Dialectical behaviour therapy is one of the most studied psychological treatments for borderline personality disorder, and the evidence that it helps is good, particularly for reducing self-harm and crisis behaviour....
Medication and a proper assessment do most of the heavy lifting in ADHD care. What they tend to leave behind is the emotional side. The flash of anger that lands...
You already know what you should be eating. You have read the articles, saved the recipes, maybe even bought the vegetables. And yet here you are at 4pm, realising you...
Plenty of people go through a good addiction programme, do everything asked of them, and relapse anyway. Not because they lacked willpower, and not because the programme was poor. For...
If you are choosing between CBT and DBT, here is the honest short answer. For most anxiety, depression, OCD and phobias, CBT is where to start. For emotions that run...
There’s a saying within the care industry, ‘if you’ve met someone with autism, then you’ve met one person with autism.’ There is no textbook example you can point to; no...
Sex is an unavoidable fact of life. It's what it took for you to get here right now, and it’s one of the main drivers in relationships. And so, it’s...
Most folks ignore a truth they’d rather not face – deep down, too. Quietly avoiding it feels easier than speaking up. Those vanishing without a trace. Gone before anyone notices...
They seemed perfect at first. Available. Interested. Then you got close and they disappeared. Not physically. Just emotionally. Present but absent. There when things are light, gone when things matter....
More than half of autistic adults will be diagnosed with an anxiety disorder at some point in their lives. For many, anxiety is not a separate problem that happens to...
