Rumination and Depression with Professor Ed Watkins
Description
In this episode, Rachel Handley talks with Professor Ed Watkins, Professor of Psychology at the University of Exeter a world-leading expert in Rumination and its impact on mental health and wellbeing. Professor Watkins talks about Rumination-Focussed Cognitive Therapy, an evidence-based approach he has developed and trialled to target these specific processes in depression.
They discuss:
- What is rumination
- What might be the different between adaptive and maladaptive rumination
- How rumination can become a habit that can maintain low mood, anxiety and depression
- The development and application of Rumination-Focused CBT (RFCBT) to depression
- Practical techniques to shift clients from ruminative abstract, self-critical thinking into concrete, experiential, and compassionate approaches
- When RFCBT may be especially helpful, including with complex or chronic depression
Resources & Further Learning:
Find more information about Ed and his publications here
Find out more about The Calming Minds Project here
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This podcast was edited by Steph Curnow
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