Common sense on improving outcomes:  It only takes a little reflection to realise that, if we want to become more successful at doing something, it’s likely to help immensely if we know where we’re starting and can track if we’re improving or not.  The research literature is very clear about the importance of this approach – see, for...

I read a lot of research. When I find an article of particular interest I download it to my bibliographic database - EndNote - which currently contains over 20,400 abstracts.

The Scottish branch of the British Association for Behavioural & Cognitive Psychotherapies (BABCP) organized a two day autumn conference over the 12th & 13th of September on "Current trends in CBT".  Interestingly what was on offer consisted almost entirely of workshops (apart from one brief...