Welcome to our last newsletter of 2009.In this issue:
- HG Publishing needs your support
- Education Psychologists' Conference opens with key note speech on the human givens
- Ahead of the game - latest evidence on the effectiveness of HG
- BACP's CCYP Journal features third HG case history
- The snowball effect...
- New HG forum for Australia and New Zealand
Human Givens Publishing needs your support
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Educational psychologists' conference opens with key note speech on the human givens
The human givens approach is increasingly being adopted by educational professionals across the country. David Wasilewski invited Ivan Tyrrell to give the hour-long key note speech on the human givens and their importance for emotional health and education opening this year's North West Educational Psychologists' conference, entitled 'Emotions and the role of the educational psychologist'. Ivan's speech was incredibly well received by the two hundred educational psychologists attending, and successfully set the context for two-day conference's theme. The event took place on 8th-9th December in Chorley and also included a workshop session given by Yvonne Yates entitled 'Therapeutic outcomes of human givens therapy and wellbeing in adolescents'.
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Ahead of the game – latest evidence on the effectiveness of HG therapy
In the new issue of the Human Givens journal, Bill Andrews shows why human givens therapy is ahead of the game in collecting robust evidence of effectiveness. His article - 'Human givens: the evidence so far' - also describes the practice-based evidence that has emerged from studies of the human givens approach to date and explains why the future looks so positive for us.
Using full outcome-measure data collection (in other words, even those clients who drop out of therapy, which is unusual) from hundreds of clients, results to date show that HG therapy is highly cost-effective – an increasingly imperative consideration in today's difficult economic climate – with HG therapists helping the majority of clients make significant changes in an average of only four sessions.
Research undertaken at a large GP practice also shows how good it is at increasing resilience amongst patients, empowering them to face future difficulties without sinking into depression or becoming victim to extreme anxiety.
And we agree with Dr Gina Johnson when she says, "We are hoping that funders within the NHS will realise that providing just four hours of human givens therapy to patients with mental health problems can provide immediate benefits and also probably prevent them from developing more severe and enduring problems" – just what the government is looking for.
Such good results put us in a much stronger position when promoting HG, however, we still need all human givens therapists to contribute to the ongoing national study run by Bill Andrews, so if you aren't yet doing so, please join your colleagues, visit: www.hgiprn.org for more details or How to incorporate outcome measures into your practice.
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BACP's CCYP journal features third HG case history
------------------------------------------------------------------Following on from the interest generated by two previous case histories, the December issue of the BACP's Counselling Children and Young People journal is to feature another inspiring case history from HG therapist and MindFields tutor, Pamela Woodford.
To read Pamela's previous case, 'Good grief' (featured in the June 2008 issue) about working with a young girl referred to her due to bereavement, depression and general anxiety, click here.
To read Pamela's previous case, 'Good grief' (featured in the June 2008 issue) about working with a young girl referred to her due to bereavement, depression and general anxiety, click here.
The Snowball Effect ...
In November, another HG therapist and MindFields Tutor, Mike Beard, flew to Canada where he had been invited to give a talk about the human givens approach and how to cure needle phobias at the annual national meeting of the Canadian Nurses Haemophilia Association in Montreal.This invitation was the latest in a long line stemming back to 2004 when he was originally invited to talk at a nursing conference held in Bristol, after previously helping a nurse who had read about the human givens approach and wanted his help with some difficulties she was experiencing. The success of their sessions made her realise that human givens therapy would be ideal for dealing with the common problem of needle phobias that they constantly came across, as well as offering a clear, common sense explanation of what happens when people become phobic or traumatised.
As a result of this first talk, Mike has been invited to give presentations about HG and needle phobias all over the place, including at the Global Nursing Symposium, held in Vienna in April this year. Each talk has gone very well - Mike continues to receive great feedback and people are continually impressed by the common sense and new insights the human givens approach encompases.
The snowball effect continued, with an invitation to talk on the same subject to the European Haemophilia Nurses Association in Edinburgh in September. After his recent trip to Canada, the HGI received a flurry of enquiries about human givens therapy from North America.
Who knows where Mike will be invited to next!
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New HG online forum launched for Australia and New Zealand
Human
givens therapist Michael Grevis and colleagues have long been working
to promote the human givens approach to mental health in Australasia.
To aid communication between people interested in implementing the
approach there (who often live huge distances apart) Michael has launched a new online forum - for more details, visit: www.humangivensanz.com.
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One last thought...
"Look at everything as though you were seeing it either for the first or last time.” Betty Smith
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Very best wishes from all of us at the HGI for the new year ahead.
Jane Tyrrell
Human Givens Institute
www.hgi.org.uk
Further information:
Useful publications: www.humangivens.com
Courses and training:www.mindfields.org.uk
Talk about the human givens: www.vimeo.com/754995
Registered charity:www.hgfoundation.com
Blog: www.mindfields.org.uk/blog
Website about depression: www.lift-depression.com
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