‘Guilt sensitivity’: a possible part to play in OCD
People who find guilt feelings highly difficult to tolerate may be especially prone to the OCD-type behaviours of compulsive checking or checking rituals...
Are we brave enough for our new world?
Julia Welstead considers the impact of coming out of lockdown...
Exploring sleeping and dreaming
Our latest expert is Joe Griffin as a guest on our podcast - in which he will be answering our audiences' pre-submitted questions about sleep and dreaming.
How to beat emotional stress
With the news that 44% of people in the UK describe themselves as 'stressed' with 27% of those admitting they are regularly 'close to breaking point', it has become even more crucial to spread effective information about how to manage stress.
1) Do an emotional needs audit
HG Practitioner wins Children's Social Worker of the Year Award
A hearty congratulations to Senior Social Worker and HG therapist Chris Dyas.
Date posted: 03/12/2018
VIP award for HG inspired work
Congratulations to Valerie Hillen, who has won an award for her invaluable work with job seekers.
Education
Rather than imposing new information on unreceptive minds, a good teacher first of all enters their pupils’ mental worlds to discover what they already know, then...
What is OCD? And how to deal with it...
What is OCD? Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) is the name given to the experience of uncontrollable and unreasonable obsessions or compulsions that are excessive.
The curious case of covid consternation
Julia Welstead looks at how our inner resources - with a little help from an effective therapist - can help us to overcome trauma, build resilience through difficult times and develop a positive mindset and zest for life.
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The carrot and the stick
Mark Evans describes how working imaginatively with rewards and punishments has helped his clients achieve very swift change
Why abstractions confuse people
Most people think ethics is concerned with truth, justice, equality, loyalty, fairness, values, principles, morals, etc. All these words in italics are abstractions. They are content free. They contain no sensory information. Such words used to be called 'reifications' in philosophy and are now more commonly called 'nominalisations'.
An HG lens on Bereavement
Julia Welstead looks at the impact of bereavement and grief
The Emotional Needs Scale
Brett Culham describes the outcome of his research to validate the needs-based human givens approach to psychological health.
How to get apples, not cactuses: an organisation fit for purpose
Cherry Dale explains how Birmingham South Central’s clinical commissioning group meets wellbeing needs of both staff and community by working on human givens lines.
Book review - You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here: a psychiatrist’s life
Denise Winn reviews 'You Don’t Have to Be Mad to Work Here: a psychiatrist’s life' by Dr Benji Waterhouse (Jonathan Cape, 2024)
A look at psychotherapy
Why the human givens approach is important for psychotherapy.
Meeting emotional needs whilst socially isolating or working from home
Our mental and physical health depend upon meeting emotional needs in healthy ways. This keeps stress levels low and allows our immune syst
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HG practitioner participates in global congress
HG practitioner Felicity Jaffrey, who lives and works in Egypt, received the extraordinary honour of being invited to speak at Egypt’s hugely prestigious Global Congress on Population, Health and Human Development (PHDC24) in Cairo in October.
SCoPEd - latest update
The six SCoPEd partners have published their latest update on the important work currently underway with regards to the SCoPEd framework implementation, governance and impact assessment.
Date posted: 14/02/2024