Monthly Archives: November 2013

Safeguarding a Generation of Children from Over-diagnosis and Prescription of Psychotropic Drugs

Posted on November 2, 2013 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

http://dxsummit.org/archives/1636 An thought-provoking article on this subject from Dave Traxson, an educational psychologist. I regularly hear our therapists and other peers/colleagues expressing concern drawn from their practices about the readiness with which diagnostic labels such as ADHD and allied drug treatments are applied, … Continue reading →

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Bamboozled by Bad Science – The first myth about ‘evidence-based’ therapy

Posted on November 1, 2013 by Palace Gate Counselling Service

Interesting article published on http://www.psychologytoday.com by Jonathan Shedler, Clinical Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of Colorado School of Medicine. He points out the lack of any convincing evidence base for the medical model’s choice in the UK and … Continue reading →

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