The Decider: A Skills Manual

The Decider: A Skills Manual is available for pre-order. Any orders will be delivered in January 2012. See here for more information: www.thedecider.org.uk

The Decider: A Skills Manual is a 105-page ring bound book containing 32 CBT/DBT-informed healthy and effective coping and change skills using the 4 core skill sets of Distress Tolerance, Mindfulness, Emotion Regulation & Interpersonal Effectiveness. Each of the skills has its own photocopy-able Client Handout page and Clinician page which provides a detailed explanation for the clinician on how to teach and present the skill in ways that the client will really understand and want to start putting into practice.
The Decider: A Skills Manual is designed to be fun, creative, bright, positive, affirming, validating, effective, and potentially life-changing.

Happy Holidays

Click here to see the greeting!

Twitter

and also now on Twitter! twitter.com/#!/getselfhelp

Facebook

I've finally created a Facebook page!

Perfectionism model

Thank you to Deepti for sending in Shafran's model of Perfectionism

The winning music

This is Josh's winning music anthem (Abbey Road 80th anniversary anthem competition): Thank You Eternally
and a photo of him singing the anthem in Abbey Road Studio 1

See the short YouTube video here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6bcBP4Fr3w

And just in case anyone hadn't realised - Josh is my son!

How to use the website

New page:
www.getselfhelp.co.uk/website.htm

New additions

New worksheets:
STOPP worksheet
Discrimination worksheet

Buy a Getselfhelp.co.uk gift certificate - for the files available on this page (and see link):
www.getselfhelp.co.uk/gallery1.htm

New worksheets

A few recent worksheets:
Food diary
BACE daily activity diary
BACE weekly activity diary
BACE weekly activity diary 2

Commitment to Life

www.getselfhelp.co.uk/docs/CommitmentLife.pdf
Thank you again to Chellie

news on The Decider

Michelle Ayres will be attending and doing a poster presentation on The Decider at the Delivering Effective DBT conference at St Andrews Hospital on 27 October.
Delivering Effective DBT

The Decider: A Skills Manual will be available for purchase from January 2012. More details will be available on The Decider website

Situation Logsheet

Thanks to Chellie in the US for sending in this worksheet (which I've tweaked a bit):
Situation Logsheet

Just Giving target

I've raised my Just Giving target to £1500 as it seems people are less likely to donate when it says "100%" target achieved. Please help me raise another £200 for the British Red Cross.
5 kayaking colleagues who weren't able to complete the challenge on 2 September, were able to do it in spectacular time on 2 October. Fantastic!
I've hung up my paddle for the time being, but you can still donate to a great cause, in return for using the free website resources.
Donate or find out more at Just Giving
Thank you, Carol

Composer wins worldwide competition!

Josh, the composer of the music used in all our mp3 files, is one of the 8 winners of the Abbey Road Studios 80th Anniversary Anthem Competition! He composed the choral piece "Thank You Eternally" using his composing pseudonym. He's heading off to Abbey Road Studios next week to record his piece with the London Symphony Orchestra and Eric Whitacre. Fantastic news, and well deserved! (that's my boy!) More details on this website or the Abbey Road Studios website

Josh is standing at the back, at the right hand side of the door.

Article & photo at Guernsey Press

Television news: The Decider

Michelle was interviewed by Channel Television last week about The Decider - see this link

link

Thank you to Anne Griffin and her student interns for sending me this link:
Psychology of Phobias

SETB diary

Thank you to Chris Morgan for sending in this SETB diary (which I've since edited to avoid copyright complications).


Please send in any documents in Word format rather than publisher (which I don't have and therefore cannot open), include a reference for the work, and state whether the work is original or adapted by you

Good Days Ahead - free trial

I've been contacted today and advised that HelpForDepression.com are offering a free trial of the computerised CBT programme 'Good Days Ahead'

Round Guernsey Kayak Challenge - at last!

Edit: 2 September

We did it! 24 kayakers, sun then thick fog, 2 capsizes, over 27 miles in under 8 hours 20 minutes

It's not too late to donate!

Email problems

My normal getselfhelp.co.uk email address has been offline for 24 hours, so I'm unable to access any emails from that account. The contact forms on the website are sent to that address too. I'll see if I can change them, but in the meantime, if you need to contact me, then use email address carol (at) get.gg

Edited 9pm:
It seems any emails sent after 12 noon yesterday 24 August have been lost, and any new emails may or may not get through. If you emailed me between then and 9pm tonight (25 August), then please email me again to carol (at) get.gg or use the contact form which I've updated to come to the revised email address. Please send any new emails to carol (at) get.gg

Edited 9pm 26.8.11
After a lot of time and effort (by me and the great support team at Hostgator)...
All emails are now getting through, I even seem to get two copies of each message now!! :-)

Certificate in CBT course

Salford Cogntive Therapy Training Centre are inviting applications for their Certificate in CBT course commencing February 2012 - click here for their flyer
or visit the Salford Cognitive Therapy Training Centre website

Michelle and I did the course in 2006, flying from Guernsey to Manchester every Thursday for a few months - great people, great course!

School info pack

A teacher contacted me yesterday about using the website resources for school assemblies. I wondered whether to create a school information pack. Let me know if you have any suggestions...

My Funeral Wishes

Michelle (Ayres) and I were talking about close relatives having died and them not having told anyone about their funeral wishes. So this worksheet was born!
www.get.gg/docs/FuneralWishes.pdf

Not necessarily for therapy, but perhaps for personal or family use. It's going to help me to bring it up with other family members!

Eating disorder psychoeducation

Does anyone have any psychoeducational materials that they use with clients with eating disorders? Calories burned during various activities, calories needed to gain weight etc etc
I know it's all out there on the internet, but I've not found everything I'm looking for in one place, nor specifically for eating disorders.

Contact me or comment here, maybe with a website address

11.8.11
Having purchased the book, I found this link with lots of useful printable downloads by Chris Fairburn
CBT & Eating Disorders

Evaluation & Closing Form

Thank you to Claire Slater for the suggestions!

Evaluation & Closing Form to use at end of therapy

Please let me know if you have any suggestions for improvement

RIP Anthony K Coughlan CPsychol AFBPsS

Sadly, Anthony Coughlan died in Guernsey in the early hours of this morning at the age of 65. He worked as a Consultant Clinical Neuropsychologist at St James Hospital in Leeds for many years, and only recently retired and moved back to Guernsey following his wife Christine's sudden death.
Whilst he will be missed by health professionals and clients for his quiet, kind, gentle, yet confident and knowledgeable manner, he will be very much missed by his family here in Guernsey, particularly by his 91 year old mother.
A K Coughlan at Google Scholar

Translations

The Psychiatric Clinic Ljubljana and University of Maribor and Ljubljan in Slovenia are planning to develop a computerised CBT programme using translated resources from getselfhelp.co.uk

If anyone has or plans to translate resources from the website, please let me know so I can add them to the website: www.getselfhelp.co.uk/translated.html

Emergency Box

Emergency bag or box

Smartphone Apps

There seems to be a growing number of CBT related smart-phone apps out there. I've listed them on this webpage. Let me know if you find any others.

Training opportunity

University of Southampton has space available for their September 2011 intake:
Post Graduate Diploma Cognitive Therapy for Severe Mental Health Problems

Increasing Motivation

I found this really hard to put together - if anyone has any suggestions for improvement, please let me know!
Increasing Motivation

Therapy Goals

Therapy Goals Review Sheet

Coping Thoughts worksheet

Positive Self-talk / Coping Thoughts Worksheet

Budgeting Worksheet

www.get.gg/docs/BudgetingWorksheet.pdf

Added to the site earlier this month. I'll add other new documents here too

Kayaking

I'm still hoping to kayak around Guernsey this summer - we're now aiming for 2 September. Please give generously to the Red Cross who are often the first and only aid charity allowed in to disaster zones, such as the current famine in Somalia.
More about the kayak challenge from get.gg/kayak.htm or my Just Giving page

Self Help mp3 files

CBT-based self help mp3 files

Therapy and self-help resources

For those visitors who are not familiar with the Getselfhelp.co.uk website, visit this page for over 200 information leaflets and therapy worksheets: Stopp.gg

Old news

Visit www.get.gg/news2.htm for all previous news about and additions to getselfhelp.co.uk