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Our grateful thanks.... to Declan Lyons and Sue Saunders
Date posted: 01/07/2020
HG Emotional Needs Audit used to assess emotional wellbeing during the pandemic
Just Released: A new report uses the HG framework to assess emotional wellbeing during the panemic lockdown - contains vital information and confirms the value of the HG approach in assessing mental health.
Counselling and psychotherapy organisations unite...
The HGI is one of the organisations supporting the campaign organised by BACP, BPC and UKCP to maximise the role of counselling and psychotherapy in helping to support people through the Covid 19 c
BBC Somerset Radio Interview
Charlie Taylor interviews Judith Desbonne and Tiffany Osborne about the human givens approach to therapy and its many benefits.
2020 Conference Programme announced
This year's 2-day conference promises to be another cracking event with some fascinating new insights, a wealth of practical content to expand your professional knowledge and inspirational illustrations of how widely the HG approach is spreading.
2020 Conference - Save the date!
Our biennial HGI conferences are always a fun way to stay up-to-date and network with like-minded professionals.
HG Therapy now available via AVIVA
The Human Givens Institute is now listed as a regulatory body on Aviva’s private practice register.
New dates for "JUST WHAT WE NEED" Training Course
‘JUST WHAT WE NEED’ is a therapeutic group approach using a Human Givens framework. Dates for the next course are available.
Date posted: 19/08/2019
The alarming hijacking of the BioPsychoSocial model
HG-trained lobbyist Marion Brown has spotted an alarming reversal in the use of the bio-psycho-social model for mental health and wellbeing within the medical world.
Date posted: 24/04/2019
HGI's Emotional Needs Audit used to conduct survey into mental health and wellbeing in Ireland
Amárach Research have just published the results of their recent survey of the mental health and wellbeing of 1,000 adults in Ireland, using the Human Givens Emotoinal Needs Audit
Date posted: 07/03/2019
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Aspects of good practice
Ian Thomson takes a look at a selection of ethical issues of relevance to human givens practitioners.
Practising ethically
The HGI Ethics and Complaints Committee considers some of the ethical challenges that human givens practitioners may face. Ian Thomson sets the scene.
Therapy techniques that work
In the first of an occasional series featuring contributions from HG practitioners, Miriam Chachamu shares two simple therapeutic ideas that fit well with the human givens toolkit.
Case study - They came in the night
How a modified version of the rewind technique helped heal the emotional wounds of a family subjected to savage violence in a country torn by civil war.
Tipping the scales: an HG approach to weight management
Fiona Sheldon describes the impact of her human givens work in an NHS clinic for patients struggling with obesity.
Body image and mental health
Julia Welstead looks at why we care so much about body image
Psychotherapy's Third Wave? The promise of narrative
The fundamental new direction in therapy is more than just a set of new techniques explains Bill O'Hanlon in an article first published in 1995.
Why abstractions confuse people
Most people think ethics is concerned with truth, justice, equality, loyalty, fairness, values, principles, morals, etc. All these words in italics are abstractions. They are content free. They contain no sensory information. Such words used to be called 'reifications' in philosophy and are now more commonly called 'nominalisations'.
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Our grateful thanks...
Our grateful thanks.... to Declan Lyons and Sue Saunders
Date posted: 01/07/2020
HG Emotional Needs Audit used to assess emotional wellbeing during the pandemic
Just Released: A new report uses the HG framework to assess emotional wellbeing during the panemic lockdown - contains vital information and confirms the value of the HG approach in assessing mental health.