I attended a workshop on Cognitive Therapy for Social Anxiety Disorder with Professor David M. Clark recently. The Clark and Wells social anxiety model, emphasizing self-focused attention and safety behaviors, is the gold-standard treatment intervention for social anxiety disorder.
Recently, I made an effort to disentangle my thoughts on critical thinking. One of the key components of critical thinking revolves around the idea of… Read More »How to take criticism… and learn from it
As a graduate student, one of the key skills I am to develop is critical thinking. This includes forming informed opinions on research studies, current… Read More »What is Critical Thinking?
That is, would instrumental empathy run counter to the definition of empathy or would instrumentally driven empathy be something else entirely? Empathy is defined as… Read More »Can empathy be instrumental?
Today, my colleagues and I published a paper investigating the negative outcomes of psychedelic-assisted therapy. Our findings revealed not only short-term negative reactions to psilocybin dosing sessions, such as physical, cognitive, and emotional reactions, but also long-term negative effects that are even more concerning. These include destabilization, where clients’ defense or avoidance mechanisms are disrupted, leading to decreased coping abilities, and complications in the treatment relationship, such as dependency and blurred professional boundaries. While the potential of psilocybin to alleviate treatment-resistant depression is promising, our research urges caution, highlighting that the negative effects of these treatments remain understudied and potentially significant.
I am very fortunate. I have been blessed with many opportunities in life. Opportunities that my former self would not even have dared to dream… Read More »What does time mean to you?
Recently I have been familiarizing myself with various psychotherapy treatment protocols and manuals. Manualized psychotherapy is great! A treatment manual tells practitioners what to do,… Read More »What is transdiagnostic therapy anyway?
Last week the 14th annual psychology conference in Iceland, Sálfræðiþing 2024, commenced. I was amazed by the amount of incredibly talented researchers presenting their work… Read More »My presentation at the 14th annual psychology conference in Iceland, Sálfræðiþing 2024
