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This week we’re releasing another two resources from our new Schema series: Emotional Deprivation and Emotional Inhibition. Our research roundup highlights a paper looking at affective forecasting and its role in emotional difficulties. We also cover an RCT exploring the working mechanisms which underpin EMDR and imagery rescripting in treating childhood PTSD.

This week we’re releasing another two resources from our new Schema series: Defectiveness and Coping Styles And Responses (Schema Therapy). Our research roundup examines the impact of early life experiences on eating disorders, and explores how negative expectations can increase social anxiety.

This week we’re releasing two resources from our new Schema series: Abandonment and Approval-/Admiration-Seeking. Our research roundup highlights a systematic review and meta-analysis looking at prolonged grief symptoms. We also highlight another review exploring sexual stigma in sexual minorities.

This week we’re releasing two resources for familiarizing your clients with key concepts from both schema therapy and CBT, outlining how the past can affect the present according to both of these conceptual models. We’ve also expanded our available German translations with several new additions to our cognitive distortions series.

This week we’re bringing you our latest Insights article exploring a novel approach to difficult-to-treat depression with Dr Stephen Barton. We’ve also expanded our available German translations with several new additions to our cognitive distortions series.

We’re thrilled to bring you our first new guide of 2024. Values: Connecting To What Matters is a practical self-help guide and introduction to the cornerstones of acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT). Developed in collaboration with ACT expert and author Dr Jenna LeJeune, it is a combination of psychoeducation, exercises and skills development.

We spoke with Stephen Barton, author of ‘CBT for difficult-to-treat depression: self-regulation model’, published in Cognitive and Behavioral Psychotherapy (2023).

Announcing the first two resources from our Schema series: What Are Schemas? and Unmet Emotional Needs. Our research summaries include more findings relating to early maladaptive schemas and a study on emotion dysregulation amongst people with borderline personality disorder.

At the beginning of 2024, we looked back on some of the most popular resources we released in 2023.

We’re delighted to highlight our updated Client/Professional versions of each resource. We’re also releasing an exercise designed to familiarize your clients with the process of cognitive restructuring.

We’re excited to announce the release of an updated Prompts For Challenging Negative Thinking handout and a new addition to our Insights series, Death Anxiety And Mental Health – Dr Rachel Menzies.

We sat down with Dr Rachel Menzies, co-author of ‘Death anxiety and mental health: Requiem for a dreamer’, published in the Journal of Behavior Therapy and Experimental Psychiatry (2023).

We’re pleased to announce the release of an updated Responsibility Pie Chart exercise, which helps clients reassess their level of responsibility for negative events.

To celebrate the addition of the Unified Protocol to our library, Psychology Tools sat down with Dr David H. Barlow. We discussed some of the history behind the development of the Unified Protocol, as well as the main benefits for clinicians and clients.

Written by leading psychologists, Treatments That Work™ is a renowned series of evidence-based, structured treatment programs. We are excited to make 22 of the books available to our members for the first time.

We have translated a selection of trauma psychoeducation resources into Hebrew, Arabic, and English. They are freely available for everyone to download and use.

We’re wrapping up our Cognitive Distortions series with the release of two information handouts highlighting some of the most clinically relevant cognitive biases.

One of our recently-released resources caused offence and distress. We want to offer a sincere apology and explain how we got this wrong, what we’ve learned, and what we’ve changed as a result.

We’re pleased to announce the release of three new cognitive distortion resources: Social Comparison, Thought-Action Fusion, and Externalizing.

We’re delighted to announce Psychology Tools Insights, a new series of articles exploring thought-provoking new research and translating findings into accessible, clinical takeaways for practitioners.

We sat down with Ana Rabasco, Postdoctoral Fellow at Brown University and author of ‘Well. That Was Awkward: When Clients Develop Romantic Feelings For Therapists’, published in Cognitive and Behavioral Practice (2023).

This edition sees the release of two new cognitive distortion resources: Overgeneralization and “Should” Statements.

We’re pleased to announce the release of five more resources from our ‘Exposures for….’ series, covering a range of suggested exercises for commonly experienced fears.

This edition sees the release of two new cognitive distortion resources: Personalizing and Self-Blame.

We’re excited to announce the release of three new resources for working with death anxiety: Understanding Death Anxiety, What Keeps Death Anxiety Going?, and Am I Experiencing Death Anxiety?

This edition sees the release of two new cognitive distortion resources: Magnification and Minimization and Mind Reading.

We’re pleased to announce the release of two new resources, both focusing on permissive thinking – a self-monitoring record and a new handout from our cognitive distortion series.

This edition sees the release of five more resources from our new ‘Exposures for….’  series, covering a range of suggested exercises for commonly experienced fears.

We’re delighted to announce our new ‘Exposures for….’ series! Covering many commonly held fears, each handout provides a range of exposure exercises for addressing a specific fear.

This edition sees the release of two more resources from our cognitive distortions series: Labeling and Mental Filter.

We’re pleased to announce our new ‘Am I Experiencing…’ series – a selection of symptom questionnaires designed to help clients self-assess whether their experiences might warrant further investigation.

We’re excited to announce release of two more resources from our new cognitive distortions series: Disqualifying Others and Disqualifying The Positive.

This edition sees the release of three more resources from our new cognitive distortions series: Fortune Telling, Hindsight Bias, and Jumping to Conclusions.

We’ve developed a new series covering 20 of the most clinically-relevant cognitive distortions! Each handout includes a combination of unique psychoeducation and practical elements.

We focus on some extra insight from Dr Chris Irons for making the most out of our newly released Psychology Tools for Developing Self-Compassion Audio Collection.

We’re really excited to have launched our largest audio collection so far. Psychology Tools for Developing Self-Compassion was developed with Dr Chris Irons, a leading Compassion Focused Therapy expert.

Psychology Tools for Developing Self-Compassion is here! We’re releasing a 30-track audio collection guiding clients through an evidence-based programme of Compassionate Mind Training (CMT).

We have a lot to share with you today: a new series alert, a brand new ‘All-or-nothing thinking’ resource, and a reminder of our two free audio tracks for developing compassion.

We sat down with Dr Chris Irons and discussed what made psychology become real for him, learning not to do it all, and his desire for compassion to become infused into our structures, organizations and environments.

We’re pleased to announce the release of three new resources for working with perfectionism and demanding standards.

This edition sees the release of two new resources for working with socially anxious clients and helping them to direct their attention outwards.

We’re delighted to announce the latest instalment of our hugely popular ‘Understanding…’ series: Understanding Fears and Phobias, and the release of our new ‘What Keeps Fears And Phobias Going?’ handout.

This edition sees the release of two new resources related to perfectionism, and an update to our hugely popular ‘Understanding…’ series.

We have devoted this month’s edition entirely to body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) and we’re excited to announce the release of three new BDD resources.

We’re pleased to announce the release of two new resources: Window of Tolerance and Thought Record – Courtroom Trial.

We’re delighted to announce our new “What Is … ?” psychoeducation series! This series explores a range of common mental health difficulties and has been designed to reassure and encourage optimism in your clients.

In this edition, we highlight two new resources for working with clients with eating disorders: Eating And Your Energy Levels and Starvation Syndrome – The Effects Of Semi-Starvation.

In this profile, we talked to Professor Sona Dimidjian about her guiding principles, how she merges life experiences with conceptual theory, and the search for enduring impact.

We have translated a selection of trauma psychoeducation resources into Ukrainian and are making them available for free to everyone to download and use. We have also made the same resources available for free in Polish, Russian, and English.

In this article, we look at the evidence behind self-monitoring, how best to help your clients to develop this skill, and how you can practice it yourself most effectively.

In this profile, we spoke with Professor Christine Purdon about the self-perpetuating cycle of compulsions. We discussed the importance of understanding compulsion goals, treatment implications, and leaving OCD in the waiting room.

We sat down with Professor Stefan Hofmann and discussed why now is the right time for a process-based approach, rethinking psychology, treating mental health problems like broken arms and striving to know what you don’t know.

Psychology Tools spoke to Professor Ed Watkins about his model of rumination, the importance of detail, and his perspective on interventions in the future.

We talked to Professor Shirley Reynolds about the experience of training during such a pivotal time in clinical psychology, second chances, and the idea of giving psychology away for free.

Psychology Tools talked to Dr Warren Mansell about the benefits of PCT, why it’s time to move to more universal approaches, and his hope that in the future we can look after our mental health just as we look after our teeth.

We talked to Dr Katy Robjant about what makes NET so powerful, her recent fieldwork in the DRC with child soldiers, and implications for the future of treating trauma.

As part of our Profile series, Thomas Joiner sat down with Psychology Tools to talk about understanding human nature, his journey within the study of suicidal behavior, and how American Football has helped shape his theory of suicide.

Dr Matthew Pugh sat down with Psychology Tools to talk about how his personal experiences have shaped his professional life, what drives his interest in chairwork, and his thoughts on what makes speaking to a piece of furniture so powerful.

As part of our Profile series, Dr Jenna LeJeune sat down with Psychology Tools to speak about her path to ACT, a values-led approach to the scientist-practitioner model, and her thoughts on what makes her clinical life special.

We discuss some new ways for clinicians to adapt their existing CBT skills to work effectively with interpersonal problems. Our aim is to help you to apply CBT skills that you already possess so that you feel able to conceptualize relational difficulties.

We’ve written this short guide to explain how Psychology Tools makes it easier for teams to deliver great therapy, more efficiently – providing benefits for you, your organization, and your staff.

We’ve created this short guide to outline how Psychology Tools can help mental health professionals to manage their daily demands more effectively, save valuable time, and feel better prepared for every client session.

We know that the challenge of learning to become an effective therapist can feel overwhelming. In this short guide, we explain how our resources are designed to help you learn more effectively, build confidence, and develop best practice.

This article explains a new model and proposed treatment approach for intolerance of uncertainty, focusing exclusively on behavioral experiments targeting beliefs about uncertainty.

As a result of the current global health crisis, we have made our guide on Critical Illness, Intensive Care, And Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) freely available to the public.

In this article, we highlight how our tools not only help you deliver online therapy more easily, but will provide solutions to the challenges these new ways of working may have brought.

Dr Hardeep Kaur writes about the pressures of lockdown, how to change drinking habits, and the common challenges of reducing alcohol consumption.

We have put together this free guide on Living with worry and anxiety amidst global uncertainty to help you to manage worry and maintain well-being in these difficult times.

People learn and work in different ways. We’ve created our resources in a variety of formats so you can easily provide clients with the right materials to engage and inform them most effectively.

Psychology Tools has the largest online, searchable library of multilingual therapy resources. We’ve prepared this short guide on our translation library to help you deliver great therapy to your clients, whatever their native language.

Our range of tools has been carefully developed, with the goal of making it easier for you to deliver great therapy. The design of each resource is optimized for a specific audience, so whether it’s a handout for a client or a tool for you, we have tailored it to each user’s needs.

We’ve built a huge online library of evidence-based materials that will support you at each step of your practice and save you time. Allowing you to focus on delivering great therapy, supported by expert tools and guidance grounded in a strong evidence base.

Dr Roelie Hempel writes about the use of Radically Open Dialectical Behavior Therapy (RO DBT), a new evidence-based treatment developed specifically for problems of overcontrol.

There are so many features packed into Psychology Tools Complete and Advanced memberships, that we’ve written a short guide to help you make the most of everything we have to offer.

In this article, we explore our top ten recommendations for what to do when the thought records don’t work.

We review the evidence linking exercise and mental health, and discuss practical strategies that you can use to motivate your clients to get active.

Dr Matthew Whalley discusses common cognitive distortions, why we think in unhelpful ways, and the treatment of unhelpful thinking styles with CBT.

In this article, we aim to help you to understand the important features of bipolar disorder and to overcome some of the common pitfalls that clinicians face when assessing clients who report symptoms of bipolar.

We take a look at the role of Harry Potter in therapy, and some of the ways in which you might consider integrating discussion of Rowling’s characters into your own clinical work.

Exposure therapy is the most effective psychological technique for the treatment of anxiety disorders. This article explains theory underpinning exposure therapy, and some recent research findings that can help clinicians to practice it more effectively.

A trial account is a great way to what Psychology Tools has to offer, and it’s completely free! This short guide will introduce you to the kind of resources that we publish and the best ways to find them.