P S Y C H O L O G I C A LA CBT Based, Self-Help Magazine

W E L L B E I N G

March 2011

ME FIRST!When to put our own needs first...

EMOTIONS

How can we learn to

manage our emotions?

BELIEFS

Identify your un- helpful

self-beliefs?

SELF-CRITICISM

Could you be nice 

to yourself for a

whole week?

VALUES

What are they and

why do they matter?

SPECIAL FEATURE

TEST

How resilent

are you?

ContentsMAGAZINE

COVER PHOTOGRAPHMARCH 2011

P S Y C H O L O G I C A L W E L L B E I N G

I like the 'Guardian Angel' idea

and I think the name is great too. I

think it would give us the opportu-

nity to tackle some really interest-

ing and important career crises

scenarios and the subsequent

psychological aspects. For exam-

ple I was thinking that many

young Asian men and particularly

women are forced by their parents

to become doctors, when they

themselves have no wish to be in

the medical profession. Often

these doctors will hit a crisis many

years into or after their training

and many would appreciate and

want the input of our 'Guardian

Angels’ expertise.

If we move away from

business/entrepreneur scenarios

and focus purely on other interest-

ing career crisis scenarios, I be-

lieve we would have a show that

would appeal and have interest to

a large audience.

I like the 'Guardian Angel' idea

and I think the name is great too. I

think it would give us the opportu-

nity to tackle some really interest-

ing and important career crises

scenarios and the subsequent

psychological aspects. For exam-

ple I was thinking that many

young Asian men and particularly

women are forced by their parents

to become doctors, when they

themselves have no wish to be in

the medical profession. Often

these doctors will hit a crisis many

years into or after their training

and many would appreciate and

want the input of our 'Guardian

Angels’ expertise.

If we move away from

business/entrepreneur scenarios

and focus purely on other interest-

ing career crisis scenarios, I be-

lieve we would have a show that

would appeal and have interest to

a large audience.

SHOULD WE BE GAMBLING

WHEN IT COMES TO OUR 

PSYCHOLOGICAL HEALTH?

EDITORS LETTER

very day of our lives we are bombardedwith a staggering amount of informationabout how to improve ourselves our livesour partners our jobs that is available to youand me. We can get this information online,through books, on TV/films and through ourfriends and family. Because there is somuch information it is very important for usto understand the difference between evi-dence based methods tools and treatmentsand psychological information that has notbeen backed up scientifically.

Our psychological health is just too important

for us to gamble with. Without good psycho-

logical health it is very hard to function effec-

tively and to help the people around us that

depend on us. Therefore when looking for

psychological information, whether through a

website, a book, or receiving therapy itself we

need to ensure that the therapy is evidence

based.

E Evidence-based means that the treatment has

undergone numerous and and rigorous clinical

trials to prove that it is effective for that particu-

lar psychological difficulty.The best way to

know which treatments are evidence based is

to take a quick look at the nice guidelines. You

can find these at www.nice.org.uk. There are

still many people in the UK who are receiving

the wrong type of psychological treatment for

the difficulty they are suffering with. Make sure

you are not one of them.

All the ideas, methods and tools discussed in

psychological well-being magazine are all ex-

tremely well validated clinically and scientifically.

This is what sets us apart from many of the other

psychological media.

COVER PHOTOGRAPH

Alistair Bond

March 2011. PSYCHOLOGICAL WELLBEING MAGAZINE

U N H E L P F U L  CHALLENGING 

I D E A S A B O U T  DEPRESSION

Our resident expert therapist discusses with a real patient

what their recent diagnosis of Depression means to them.

...REAL PROBLEMS...REAL THERAPY...

“ HAVING  DEPRESSION 

MEANS  I’M  WEAK...”

Monday 11am.North London

Therapist:

So Angela what would you like to use today's session to discuss.

Angela:

Well I'm really upset about being told that I'm suffering with depression. I mean, I didn’t think I

was the sort of person who’d get depressed…Ive fought it for so long and now I’ve lost.

Therapist:

I see. I'm sorry that you've been upset by this but I was wondering if we could explore some of

those ideas that you have about being depressed, would that be okay?

Angela:

Yes I suppose so if you think it might help me.

This excerpt from a real therapy session

is reproduced with the kind permission

and genorisity of the patient. All names,

places and identifying information have

been removed to protect the confiden-

tiality and anonymity of the individual.

EVIDENCE BASED PSYCHOLOGY FOR THE MODERN WOMAN

How to become selfish 

rather than self-centred.

ME FIRST!

Could you be nice

to yourself for a

whole week?

How can we learn to

moderate our emotions?

Worrying- can we stop?

SELF-CRITICISM

WORRY

EMOTIONSTEST

How kind to

yourself are

you?BELIEFS

Identify your un- helpful

self-beliefs?