Does CBT facilitate emotional processing?

Background: Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT) is not primarily conceptualized as operating via affective processes. However, there is growing recognition that emotional processing plays an important role during the course of therapy.

Aims: The Emotional Processing Scale was developed as a clinical and research tool to measure emotional processing deficits and the process of emotional change during therapy.

The Emotional Processing Scale: scale refinement and abridgement (EPS-25).

Objective: The Emotional Processing Scale (EPS) is a 38-item, eight-factor self-report questionnaire designed to measure emotional processing styles and deficits. Scale development is an ongoing process and our aim was to (i) refine the scale by trying out items from a new item pool and (ii) shorten the scale to enhance its clinical and research utility.

Methods: Fifteen new items were added to the original 38-item pool.

Strengthening motivational interviewing skills following initial training: a randomised trial of workplace-based reflective practice.

Aim: The study assesses whether a workplace-based educational intervention helps professionals who had trained in Motivational Interviewing (MI) become more competent in it.

Design: Randomised controlled trial.

Participants: Professionals in health and social services in Dorset, UK, who had received training in MI (n=54).