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?