Lifting depression is easy to do — when you know its cause
This article about the human givens approach first appeared in the major American publication, Family Therapy Magazine.
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The Rewind Technique
The rewind technique is a non-intrusive, safe and highly effective psychological method for detraumatising people, which can also be used for removing phobias.
Working with more complex forms of PTSD: important provisos
Emily Gajewski shares her case experience with working with more complex forms of PTSD
Rehearsing Success
Paul Dow finds creative ways of using the human givens approach to help struggling students meet their emotional needs.
A visceral reaction
Renée van der Vloodt describes how a dramatic event during rewind helped a client resolve a whole host of difficulties in her life.
Extending emotional wellbeing in schools
Stuart Coulden describes an innovative project for enhancing emotional health in diverse school communities.
The Emotional Needs Scale
Brett Culham describes the outcome of his research to validate the needs-based human givens approach to psychological health.
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Don’t Worry, Be Happy… and Overcome Anxiety
Do you think of yourself as an anxious person? This can lead you to think that anxiety is your lot; that there is damn all you can do about it. Well, that isn’t true at all and you are confining yourself to a limiting box if you continue to believe that...
The limits of tolerance: ethics and human nature
At a time when we are struggling with a number of major moral dilemas, Ivan Tyrrell suggests that the human givens approach can help us reach ethical decisions.
Try a little kindness
In the midst of lockdown, and echoing the theme of this year's Mental Health Week, Julia Welstead takes a moment to consider acts of kindness, and what they can bring us all.
Aspects of good practice
Ian Thomson takes a look at a selection of ethical issues of relevance to human givens practitioners.
Unconscious bias
With debates raging around racism, cultural conditioning and freedom of speech, Carol Harper reflects on the problem of unconscious bias.
Sue Gray
When someone's daily life becomes bogged down by a personal difficulty, they often cannot find a way through it for themselves...
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.
‘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...
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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