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  The Final Emotional Needs Scale

  The final version of the Emotional Needs Scale resulting from Brett Culham's research into emotional needs.

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  A Christmas Carol... or a tale of three therapists?

  James Tapper suggests that Charles Dickens’s famous seasonal novel contains much that reflects the human givens approach to therapy.

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  How to get apples, not cactuses: an organisation fit for purpose

  Cherry Dale explains how Birmingham South Central’s clinical commissioning group meets wellbeing needs of both staff and community by working on human givens lines.

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  Only Connect

  Julia Welstead considers the importance of our human need for connection

   
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  Good choices: autism and the human givens

  Angela Austin describes how the human givens approach has informed her work to create an emotionally safe place where children with autism can learn.

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  The fast cure for phobia and trauma: evidence that it works

  Counsellors who use it know that the 'rewind technique' is fast, safe, painless and effective for dealing with trauma. Keith Guy and Nicola Guy have tested it in research.

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  Normal birth can be pain free

  Sheila Barratt-Smith tells Denise Winn that the images and language used to describe birth can determine whether a woman experiences pain — or euphoria.

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  Give your 2019 resolutions a positive spin

  How’s your New Year resolve bearing up? What went through your mind as the bells rang in 2019? Julia Welstead discusses how reframing, visualising and rehearsing your own success are often the keys to achieving what you want, and to making your New Year resolution a permanent behaviour pattern in your life...