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  • "The engine of mindfulness is exploration" … discovering Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with Professor Zindel Segal

    "The engine of mindfulness is exploration" … discovering Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy with Professor Zindel Segal
    2025/10/27

    In this episode, Rachel talks with Professor Zindel Segal, Distinguished Professor of Psychology in Mood Disorders all about Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy. (MBCT). Zindel discusses the origins of MBCT, detailing how he and his colleagues transitioned from traditional cognitive therapy to integrating mindfulness as a core mechanism for preventing depression relapse. The conversation explores the fundamental concepts of mindfulness, the challenges therapists face when shifting from goal-oriented CBT to mindfulness inquiry, and the empirical evidence supporting MBCT's efficacy, particularly concerning the neurobiological findings about sense foraging and the role of sensation in recovery.

    Further resources:

    • Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy for Depression – Segal, Williams & Teasdale
    • Better in Every Sense – Segal & Farb
    • MBCT website

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    1 時間 13 分
  • Rumination and Depression with Professor Ed Watkins

    Rumination and Depression with Professor Ed Watkins
    2025/09/30

    In this episode, Rachel Handley talks with Professor Ed Watkins, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter a world-leading expert in Rumination and its impact on mental health and wellbeing. Professor Watkins talks about Rumination-Focussed Cognitive Therapy, an evidence-based approach he has developed and trialled to target these specific processes in depression.

    They discuss:

    • What is rumination
    • What might be the different between adaptive and maladaptive rumination
    • How rumination can become a habit that can maintain low mood, anxiety and depression
    • The development and application of Rumination-Focused CBT (RFCBT) to depression
    • Practical techniques to shift clients from ruminative abstract, self-critical thinking into concrete, experiential, and compassionate approaches
    • When RFCBT may be especially helpful, including with complex or chronic depression

    Resources & Further Learning:

    Find more information about Ed and his publications here

    Find out more about The Calming Minds Project here

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    1 時間 25 分
  • Prof Judith Beck : Back to basics… or back to the future?

    Prof Judith Beck : Back to basics… or back to the future?
    2025/08/19
    In this episode of Practice Matters, Rachel is joined by Professor Judith Beck, President of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behaviour Therapy and one of the most influential voices in the field. Judith discusses her personal and professional journey into CBT, the legacy of her father Aaron T. Beck, and the evolution of cognitive therapy from its traditional roots to recovery-oriented cognitive therapy (CT-R). Judith also shares insights on the importance of the therapeutic relationship, strategies for validating clients, managing hopelessness, and adapting CBT across cultures and how therapists can look after themselves, continue learning, and stay connected. Resources and links mentioned in this episode: Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior TherapySubscribe to the Beck Institute newsletter Cognitive Behavior Therapy: Basics and Beyond (3rd edition, 2021) by Judith S. Beck Beck Institute social media channels: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/beckinstituteLinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/beck-institute-for-cognitive-behavior-therapy/X: https://twitter.com/beckinstituteYouTube: https://www.youtube.com/user/BeckInstitute Stay Connected: Follow us on Instagram: @BABCPpodcastsSend us your questions and suggestions: podcasts@babcp.comSubscribe and leave a review – and don't forget to share this episode with your colleagues! If you enjoyed this episode, check out our sister podcasts, Let's Talk About CBT and Let's Talk About CBT – Research Matters for more discussions on evidence-based therapy. Credits: Music is Autmn Coffee by Bosnow from Uppbeat Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/bosnow/autumn-coffee License code: 3F32NRBYH67P5MIF This podcast was edited by Steph Curnow Transcript: Rachel: Welcome to Let's Talk About CBT Practice Matters, the BABCP podcast for therapists using cognitive behavioral therapy with me, Rachel Handley. Each episode, we talk to an expert in CBT who will share insights that will help you understand and apply CBT better to help your patients. Today, I'm really delighted to be joined by Professor Judith Beck. Professor Beck is president of the Beck Institute for Cognitive Behavior Therapy and clinical professor of psychology and psychiatry at the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine. She has published prolifically on CBT, including key texts that are to be found on the bookshelves of almost every CBT therapist with a desire to hone their craft. And they really do guide us through the basics and beyond. Judy, welcome to the podcast. Judith Beck: Thank you for having me. Rachel: I'm fortunate to have met you previously during a brief period of study at the Beck Institute many moons ago now. However, I imagine that I feel about spending time talking to you about CBT the same way normal people might feel about chatting to celebrities, given that of course your CBT royalty, your father being Aaron T. Beck, also widely regarded as the father of CBT and that you've worked so closely with him to develop the field. It might perhaps seem inevitable given that background that you would end up in this work, but you clearly could have chosen any number of career pathways. Can you tell us a little bit about your personal and professional journey to where you are now? Judith Beck: So I've always loved children. And when I was probably six or seven, I decided that I wanted to be a teacher. And so when I went to the University of Pennsylvania, I studied education to become a teacher, but I took a lot of psychology courses as well. And I taught kids with learning disabilities for a while and then decided that if I wanted to have a career or met my career as a teacher, I really had to go back and get a professional degree, a master's degree. And so I went back to school and got a master's in educational psychology. Then worked as a supervisor for a little while and decided that I should really probably get a PhD. And it was toward the beginning of my PhD program that I became more interested in psychology and in my father's work. And I really think that I must have been at least subliminally influenced by my dad when I was a teacher and when I was a supervisor. At the beginning when I started to consider going into this field, I had kind of a naive idea and it was an automatic thought. I thought, I just don't know if I'm cut out to be a psychologist because I've always been such an intuitive teacher. I didn't really need someone to teach me how to teach, especially when it came to teaching kids with learning disabilities. It was just quite natural for me to know how to take something that was complicated and break it down and speak to my young students in a way that they could understand. So I thought, how could I learn to be a psychologist? I'm not intuitive at all about how to do that. Rachel: So if it requires some learning, then it can't be for me. Judith Beck: That was my thought at the time. And fortunately it turned out to be...
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  • Prof Heather O'Mahen and Dr Sarah Healy on CBT for anxiety and depression in the perinatal period

    Prof Heather O'Mahen and Dr Sarah Healy on CBT for anxiety and depression in the perinatal period
    2025/07/15
    In this episode of Let's Talk About CBT- Practice Matters, host Rachel Handley is joined by two leading experts in perinatal mental health- Professor Heather O'Mahen and Dr Sarah Healy. Together, they explore the unique challenges, adaptations, and opportunities that come with providing effective CBT for individuals during the perinatal period. Heather and Sarah draw on their clinical experience, policy work, and research to discuss why perinatal-specific approaches are needed, the prevalence and impact of perinatal mental health difficulties, and how therapists can adapt CBT to meet the needs of diverse parents and families. The conversation also covers access to care, the role of identity and stigma, supporting culturally diverse and neurodiverse parents, and therapist wellbeing when working in this emotionally heightened period. Whether you're working in NHS Talking Therapies, secondary or specialist care, private practice, or simply want to deepen your understanding of this vital area, this episode offers compassionate insights and practical strategies for helping parents during this transformative time. Resources & Further Learning: · Find out more about the Pearl Institute here · Access the Perinatal Positive Practice Guide here · Take part in the Jame Lind Alliance perinatal mental health survey here · Listen to the our previous episode on OCD in the perinatal period with Dr Fiona Challacombe Stay Connected: Follow us on Instagram: @BABCPpodcastsSend us your questions and suggestions: podcasts@babcp.comSubscribe and leave a review – and don't forget to share this episode with your colleagues! If you enjoyed this episode, check out our sister podcasts, Let's Talk About CBT and Let's Talk About CBT – Research Matters for more discussions on evidence-based therapy. Credits: Music is Autmn Coffee by Bosnow from Uppbeat Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/bosnow/autumn-coffee License code: 3F32NRBYH67P5MIF This podcast was edited by Steph Curnow Transcript: Rachel: Welcome to Let's Talk About CBT-Practice Matters, the BABCP podcast for therapists using cognitive behavioural therapy with me, Rachel Handley. Each episode, we talk to an expert in CBT who will share insights that will help you understand and apply CBT better to help your patients. Today, we have the pleasure of being joined by not one but two experts in perinatal mental health, Professor Heather O'Mahen and Sarah Healy. Professor O'Mahen is Professor of Perinatal and Clinical Psychology at the University of Exeter and world leading expert in treatments for depression and anxiety in the perinatal period. Her work focuses not only on improving treatments, but also on improving treatment access, for example, through digital delivery. Heather is also currently National Clinical Advisor to NHS England's Perinatal Mental Health Policy Team. And Dr. Healy is a leading perinatal clinical psychologist with over 20 years' experience in the field. She co-led with Heather the development of the Talking Therapies perinatal competency framework and contributes regularly to the development of perinatal mental health policy. They've also founded together the Pearl Institute, which provides evidence-based training for clinicians working in the perinatal period. You're both so welcome. Thank you so much for making time in your busy schedules to come on the podcast. I think the fact that from the first planning to recording this podcast has taken us about 10 months is probably a good indicator of just how busy you are doing this brilliant work. Heather: Thanks for having us, Rachel. Rachel: Now, I know you're both hugely committed to working in perinatal mental health, and I'm wondering how you came to work in the field and what's kept you fascinated by it personally and professionally? Heather? Heather: Well, I came to it accidentally. I applied to do a post-doc at the University of Michigan when I was living in the States and it was in primary care. But they had rejigged things and then said, we have this other one in perinatal mental health, would you be interested? I had a long-standing interest in women's mental health so that sounded really great to me and I said, yeah, I'm definitely interested. Then I started doing therapy with women, parents from the perinatal period, and also doing research in the area, and I just couldn't stop. It's such an incredible, transformative period in people's lives. It's such a meaningful time to get to work with folks. There's so much that's going on, but there's so many opportunities to walk alongside people during this period of change. And then of course I had my own children and that fed it further. And so here I am. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Then you learn like, wow, it really, really, really, really is important. Rachel: You learn what it's really about. Fantastic. And how about you, Sarah? Sarah: Yeah, I guess I came a...
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  • Befriending the naughty black dog…. Prof Barney Dunn on learning to live well alongside depression

    Befriending the naughty black dog…. Prof Barney Dunn on learning to live well alongside depression
    2025/05/29
    In this episode, Rachel talks with Professor Barney Dunn, clinical psychologist and researcher at the University of Exeter, about his work on Augmented Depression Therapy (ADepT) a novel approach to treating depression that targets anhedonia (difficulty experiencing pleasure) and aims to boost wellbeing. Barney shares personal and professional insights into why and how traditional CBT might be augmented to actively help people rediscover joy and meaning in life. He explains how ADepT, based on systematic research, integrates cognitive behavioural principles with techniques from ACT, mindfulness, strengths-based CBT and more, all aimed at helping clients live well alongside depression rather than simply reduce symptoms. Whether you're a therapist working with depression or simply curious about new directions in CBT, this episode offers a thought-provoking and inspiring conversation about what it really means to get better- and stay better. Resources & Further Learning: Find more information about Barney and his publications here Find out more about ADepT here Stay Connected: Follow us on Instagram: @BABCPpodcastsSend us your questions and suggestions: podcasts@babcp.comSubscribe and leave a review – and don't forget to share this episode with your colleagues! If you enjoyed this episode, check out our sister podcasts, Let's Talk About CBT and Let's Talk About CBT – Research Matters for more discussions on evidence-based therapy. Credits: Music is Autmn Coffee by Bosnow from Uppbeat Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/bosnow/autumn-coffee License code: 3F32NRBYH67P5MIF This podcast was edited by Steph Curnow Transcript: Rachel: Welcome to Let's Talk About CBT Practice Matters, the BABCP podcast for therapists using cognitive behavioural therapy with me, Rachel Handley. Each episode, we talk to an expert in CBT who will share insights that will help you understand and apply CBT better to help your patients. Today, we're joined by Barney Dunn, a highly renowned research and clinical psychologist specialising in therapies to improve wellbeing and functioning in depression and related mental health conditions. Professor Dunn is based at the University of Exeter, and he has a finger in many interesting pies, but today he's here to talk particularly about his work developing and implementing treatment for depression with a particular focus on symptoms of anhedonia. Thanks so much for joining us, Barney. Barney: Thank you very much for having me, delighted to be here. Rachel: And just as a starter, we want to think about how you got into this area of research. And as I said, you're interested in lots of different things, but you've devoted a lot of your time and effort to thinking about anhedonia. There's so much to fascinate in clinical psychology. I wonder what got you interested in the field of depression and specifically this anhedonia area personally and professionally? Barney: Professionally, when I was doing clinical training and learning to cut my teeth with a lot of depression cases, hitting a point where I felt like I'd done quite a lot of work reducing the negative and reducing symptoms, but the job was only half done. And clients were saying things like, at the end of therapy, well, I'm not depressed anymore, but I'm still not quite sure what life's for and I'm not enjoying stuff. And I felt...Well, maybe I'm not doing CBT correctly, or maybe there's a bit of a trick missing about how we can do that stuff better. So that was the kind of professional route into it. The personal route into it was a bit more growing up with my dad. So I lost my mum when I was little and was very well supported by my family but seeing my dad in my eyes never quite get back to life, never rediscovering joy and connection and meaning and grinding through and turning the wheels, but not getting pleasure back and thinking there's a missed opportunity there. Even after the difficult, there's possibility for the good. And so that's the kind of personal motivation is thinking of clients like my dad, how could I help them get back to life when they've been through some difficulty and rediscover wellbeing and joy? Rachel So that really meaningful connection for you from your own lived experience with being alongside someone who never got that meaning back. Those are big questions. And I hear what you say, you working in depression, you get good results with your clients in terms of their symptoms improving, but you talked about a job half well done or half done. Currently, how well are these symptoms targeted in mainstream treatments? I mean, it's a brave man who takes on, you know, Beckian cognitive therapy and thinks, right, we need to do better. Barney: Well, I mean, we should follow the data. So if you do Beckian cognitive therapy and indeed any other evidence-based treatment for depression under ideal circumstances, really good therapists who are really well supervised, you basically get ...
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  • "Don't believe everything you think..."- Prof Steve Hollon on cognitive therapy for depression- Part 2

    "Don't believe everything you think..."- Prof Steve Hollon on cognitive therapy for depression- Part 2
    2025/04/25
    In the second part of this episode with Professor Steve Hollon, we go beyond theory into the heart of applying cognitive therapy for depression in real-world settings. Steve shares what therapy really looks like across the spectrum from relatively straightforward to deeply complex clients and how therapists can stay grounded and effective, even when things feel messy. Resources and links Cognitive Therapy of Depression (Second Edition) Find out more about Steve and his research here OXCADAT: A wealth of useful videos and therapist resources for social anxiety, PTSD and panic disorder can be found here: https://oxcadatresources.com/ Stay Connected: Follow us on Instagram: @BABCPpodcastsSend us your questions and suggestions: podcasts@babcp.comSubscribe and leave a review – and don't forget to share this episode with your colleagues! If you enjoyed this episode, check out our sister podcasts, Let's Talk About CBT and Let's Talk About CBT – Research Matters for more discussions on evidence-based therapy. Credits: Music is Autmn Coffee by Bosnow from Uppbeat Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/bosnow/autumn-coffee License code: 3F32NRBYH67P5MIF This podcast was edited by Steph Curnow Transcript: Rachel Handley:  Welcome to Let's talk about CBT- Practice Matters, the BABCP podcast for therapists using cognitive behavioural therapy with me, Rachel Handley. Each episode we talk to an expert in CBT who will share insights that will help you understand and apply CBT better to help your patients. Welcome back to part two of our conversation with Professor Steve Holland, international expert in cognitive therapy of depression. In our last episode, Steve gave us some fascinating insights into the development of the cognitive model and how we can understand the development and maintenance of depression. In this episode, Steve talks in detail and with lots of examples about how to apply the therapy to really help people with all sorts of complexity in their lives without fear of getting it wrong. So let's dive straight in. Rachel Handley: And so, if you had to put in a sentence the main task of therapy, and I know asking any researcher to put anything into one sentence is a challenge, right? But what would you say is the purpose of therapy that we need to keep foremost in our minds to guide therapy? Steven Hollon: I'll say two things if I can Rachel Handley: I'll allow you two. Steven Hollon: Then I'll say two things. The first component is, when in doubt, do. If you're depressed, don't wait to feel like doing something. You're not going to feel like doing anything. Do the stuff you would do if you weren't depressed. And then the desire will come back, but don't wait to feel like it. And the second thing is don't believe everything you think. And the most powerful way to disconfirm an existing belief is to test it in a situation that your therapist can't control. Therapists get paid to tell people they're okay, or in some cases, dynamic, tell people they're not okay and if you've got kids to put through college, that's a nice, long term life lifestyle. But, what I'll do with the client when we start out and I learned to do this with Tim Beck and Maria Kovacs and others is in the very first session say, look, we can do this a couple of ways. There's some things I'd like to teach you how to do. And I can either do them for you or I can teach you how to do them. My goal is to make myself obsolete. Is that okay with you? And usually then people say, yeah, I'd prefer that. Usually, occasionally they won't, but usually they'll say that. And I'd say, now, if we were going to help you learn how to do these things, how can we do that? Say, well, can I work on this stuff between sessions? That's a great idea! So let people reinvent the therapy each time coming through. Then you'll end the session and have something for them to do between this and the next session. And by the way, every major study that has shown an efficacy for cognitive therapy has always seen people who are clinically depressed at least twice a week in the beginning. If I have to wait seven days to meet somebody, to work with somebody who's deeply depressed, they're going to forget who I am. I mean, their hippocampus is turned over. It's a, you have to reintroduce yourself. I get a little momentum going over that first session. Give me two or three days later I can keep the momentum going like Sisyphus pushing the rock up the hill. I don't know what things are like in the UK, but I would always want the depressed client to have twice weekly sessions in the beginning. It doesn't have to be an office, one could be over the internet and then I'll space it out later on. Maybe we get a couple of weeks in, then we'll drop back to every other week. Rachel Handley: And certainly that kind of frequency of therapy is one where we have fallen into habits of, the routine is once a week for an hour on the same day and not one ...
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  • "Don't believe everything you think..."- Prof Steve Hollon on cognitive therapy for depression- Part 1

    "Don't believe everything you think..."- Prof Steve Hollon on cognitive therapy for depression- Part 1
    2025/04/25
    In the first instalment of this special two part episode, Rachel Handley talks to Professor Steve Hollon, international expert on the prevention and treatment of depression and co-author of the second edition of Cognitive Therapy of Depression about how we understand and treat depression. Steve shares what first drew him to the field, his early encounters with Aaron T. Beck and the rise of cognitive therapy, and how insights from evolutionary biology, psychology and neurobiology can enrich our understanding of depression. Next time: In Part 2, Professor Hollon discusses how CBT can be applied to a wide range of presentations, from more straightforward to highly complex and even tries his hand at devising a brief intervention for the President of the United States. Don't miss it! Resources and links Cognitive Therapy of Depression (Second Edition) Find out more about Steve and his research here OXCADAT: A wealth of useful videos and therapist resources for social anxiety, PTSD and panic disorder can be found here: https://oxcadatresources.com/ Stay Connected: Follow us on Instagram: @BABCPpodcastsSend us your questions and suggestions: podcasts@babcp.comSubscribe and leave a review – and don't forget to share this episode with your colleagues! If you enjoyed this episode, check out our sister podcasts, Let's Talk About CBT and Let's Talk About CBT – Research Matters for more discussions on evidence-based therapy. Credits: Music is Autmn Coffee by Bosnow from Uppbeat Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/bosnow/autumn-coffee License code: 3F32NRBYH67P5MIF This podcast was edited by Steph Curnow Transcript: Rachel Handley:  Welcome to Let's talk about CBT- Practice Matters, the BABCP podcast for therapists using cognitive behavioural therapy with me, Rachel Handley. Each episode we talk to an expert in CBT who will share insights that will help you understand and apply CBT better to help your patients. My guest today is Professor Steve Hollon, who had so much fascinating information, theoretical and clinical insights and stories to share that we just had to produce a special two part episode. In this first part, Professor Hollon shares the reasons for his fascination with depression, the story of Beck's development of the cognitive therapy for depression model and insights from psychology, neurobiology and evolutionary biology that can help us understand the development and maintenance of depression. Professor Hollon is an international expert on the prevention and treatment of depression and co-author of the long awaited second edition of Cognitive Therapy of Depression, the definitive and groundbreaking psychotherapy manual, first published by Aaron T Beck and colleagues in 1979. Professor Hollon is professor of Psychology at Vanderbilt University in the US but is no stranger to us in the UK and supporting the dissemination of evidence-based therapies here as he regularly provides training to services in the UK and teaches on the Talking Therapies Program at the IOPPN annually. So welcome to the podcast, Professor Hollon. Steven Hollon: Thank you very much. And Steve, please. Rachel Handley: So Steve, you've been working in this field for quite some time now, you might not want to tell us how long, but can you recall for us who or what got you invested in the field of depression personally and professionally? Steven Hollon: Yeah, I can't tell you exactly why I got interested in depression, but that goes way, way back. We have some family history that I got my own personal history of episodes of depression, but to make a long story short, I was in graduate school in Florida State which was good, strong program, but I was reading Aaron Beck and Marty Seligman and Jerry Claremont, the fellow that generated IPT and I was showing up, in those days we had libraries, we had stacks. And I was looking at some of the same journals that my then graduate student colleague Judy Garber, now 50 years now we've been together looking at the same kind of things and we just decided that we weren't getting the kinds of training that we absolutely wanted, as good as the program was in Tallahassee, we want to work with some of the leaders in the field. So she wrote to Marty and cut a deal with him to run his research labs while he was off on sabbatical at the institute in London. And I was finishing up my dissertation collection data and I followed her up about six months later, with the notion that I would work for Beck. Of course, Tim Beck didn't know me from Adam and couldn't get in to see him. And his cognitive therapy approach hadn't taken off yet, but we ended up seeing that his group was going to be presenting at a conference, Society for Psychotherapy Research in Boston. So we drove up the coast and went to the meeting there and I spent the next three days getting to know the other people in this research group and, talking with Maria Kovacs, really first rate psychologists ...
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  • "I'm forever bursting bubbles (or perhaps not)…" Kim Wright and Tom Richardson on treating Bipolar Disorder

    "I'm forever bursting bubbles (or perhaps not)…" Kim Wright and Tom Richardson on treating Bipolar Disorder
    2025/03/29
    In this episode of Let's Talk About CBT- Practice Matters, Rachel Handley talks to two expert guests – Professor Kim Wright from the University of Exeter and Associate Professor Tom Richardson from the University of Southampton – about bipolar disorder and the role of CBT in supporting people with this diagnosis. Tom and Kim share their extensive clinical and research experience, alongside insights from Tom's own lived experience of bipolar disorder. They discuss common myths, the importance of timely and accurate diagnosis, and how CBT can support people with bipolar in a meaningful and collaborative way. They explore what CBT for bipolar looks like in practice, including work on relapse prevention, mood stabilisation, routine regulation and addressing beliefs about mania. The conversation also covers important systemic issues such as gaps in service provision, barriers to access and the need for more widespread training and implementation. This episode is released to mark World Bipolar Day and aims to raise awareness and improve understanding of this often misunderstood condition. Resources & Further Learning: · Richardson, T. (Eds). Psychological Therapies for Bipolar Disorder: Evidence-Based and Emerging Techniques. Spinger-Nature, 2024. · Bipolar UK Commission · Find out more about Kim Wright's research and publications · Find out more about Tom Richardson's research and publications Stay Connected: Follow us on Instagram: @BABCPpodcastsSend us your questions and suggestions: podcasts@babcp.comSubscribe and leave a review – and don't forget to share this episode with your colleagues! If you enjoyed this episode, check out our sister podcasts, Let's Talk About CBT and Let's Talk About CBT – Research Matters for more discussions on evidence-based therapy. Credits: Music is Autmn Coffee by Bosnow from Uppbeat Music from #Uppbeat (free for Creators!): https://uppbeat.io/t/bosnow/autumn-coffee License code: 3F32NRBYH67P5MIF This podcast was edited by Steph Curnow Transcript: Rachel: Welcome to. Let's talk about CBT Practice Matters, the BABCP podcast for therapists using cognitive behavioural therapy with me, Rachel Handley. Each episode we talk to an expert in CBT who will share insights that will help you understand and apply CBT better to help your patients. Today I'm delighted to be joined by not one, but two expert guests, my wonderful friend Kim Wright, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Exeter, and the equally wonderful Tom Richardson, Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology and CBT at the University of Southampton. Both of our illustrious guests specialise in researching, treating, teaching, and training others in psychosocial interventions for bipolar disorder. Welcome guys. Tom: Thanks for having us. Rachel: I know you've both been working in this field of bipolar for many years. Kim, when I first met you, you were doing a PhD in bipolar, even before embarking on your doctorate in clinical psychology. And Tom, I know you have personal as well as professional reasons to be so committed, and passionate about the area. Can you tell us a little bit about your pathways into this work? Kim: Yeah. Hello Rachel. It's really good to be here. So, I, started out quite a long time ago, when it was possible to finish your psychology degree and go straight into a research associate job and I was very fortunate to be able to do that and work with Dominic Lamb on his trial of CBT for people with bipolar, for relapse prevention. And that is at the, or was at, Kings College London and it was one of the early CBT trials in the area and it was really exciting to be involved in it and as part of that, again, this is a bygone era, it was possible to do a part-time PhD that was heavily subsidised for members of staff of the institution. So I did my PhD part-time with Dominic alongside my role, and that gave me the opportunity to meet hundreds of people with bipolar disorder and hear about their experiences. And then, after I finished, I did clinical psychology training and then worked in a community mental health team for a bit. And then I had a really wonderful opportunity to join the clinical research group at the University of Exter where I am now. And back then it was led by Willem Kuyken and Ed Watkins, who work in the area of depression. And they liked the idea of broadening out the team to include a focus on bipolar. So that was a great opportunity for me to return back to research in the area of bipolar and also to work in the research clinic that we set up in the university not long after. Rachel: What a brilliant opportunity to work with such amazing people, but also to be in there from the ground up, working on that first CBT trial in the area. Really exciting. How about you, Tom? Tom: Yeah. Well, as you said, my research interests really has come a lot from my own experiences because I have Bipolar disorder ...
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