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Practical Strategies from Powerful Psychotherapies

Here Two Minute Talks invites us to use the practical lessons of several psychotherapeutic schools. While it is important to grow competency in certain problem content areas, such as alcohol use, it is also important to be grounded in how to communicate in ways that facilitates behavioural and psychological change. A reader who wants to help others stop bullying themselves by their negative self-talk can focus on cognitive therapy. The reader who is interested in assisting others to solve their own problems can concentrate on social problem solving. The solution-focused advising section shows us how to move people from their misery talk to positive talk. Those readers who want to help clients to change to healthy habits such as nicotine abstinence can spend time on motivational advising.

Eating, Sleeping, Smoking, and Drinking.

These are four of the most common problems that impact our physical and behavioral health. Here Two Minute Talks takes us well beyond the often used and yet often unsuccessful approach of providing boring mini-lectures to others about knowledge that they may already have. Let’s face it, most people already know that eating too much, maintaining poor sleep habits, smoking cigarettes, and drinking excessively is not good. As Two Minute Talks points out, “Change is more about the heat than the light”. Dr. Clabby shows us ways to help others find their own motivation to make the changes they already know are needed.

 Managing Stress, Panic, and Depression. 

Here Two Minute talks starts with a look at the prevalence of stress, particularly with the rise of the economic crises that have affected so many communities. Dr. Clabby  teaches a simple intervention of IBM – Imagery, Breathing, and Muscle relaxation. Showing others how to gain control over panic comes next, and is followed by screening for unipolar depression, and how to manage this problem, as well as how to identify bipolar depression. 

 Marriages Relationships, Children and Teens.

The two reasons why adults give up their evenings and seek the help of mental health professionals is because: they are concerned about their troubled marriages and relationships, and because they struggle with parenting their children and teenagers. Practical ways to both understand and successfully manage such relationships are provided in a clear and engaging presentation.

Bad news, Violence, and Grieving

Here Dr. Clabby discusses how to humanely deliver disappointing news, ranging from a job loss to a divorce to a death in the family. Two Minute Talks will then help you understand and advise others regarding the all too frequent problem of violence against women. This guide next offers help in identifying young people who are at risk for violence. This section dispels the myths about grieving and shows us how to support others  to grieve in healthy ways.

Thriving at work

Dr. Clabby shows us how to help others maintain a positive attitude at work. This is a crucial element which, if not attended to, creates major emotional problems. The emphasis here is on handling the pressures of taking on leadership and supervisory responsibilities, learning how to provide feedback effectively, handling difficult and critical co-workers, and speaking up effectively in groups.