I recently came across a new book called “Engage the Group: Engage the Brain - 100 Experiential Activities for Addiction Treatment” first published in 2015. It’s an innovative collection of individual and group therapy tasks aimed at being used to help treat addiction. There is a range of evidence-based interventions, fun, mind-body connection exercises and it’s been put together by two American psychologists. I was pleasantly surprised to find one of the suggested activities

I have long been interested in how psychological perspectives of time influence our mood and mental health. How we relate to our past, the present and the future all has important implications on our mood, our happiness and even our choices in life. Distinct Time Perspectives have been shown to link to drug and alcohol use, engaging in risky behaviours, depression, anxiety and more… My research interests have included analysing the distinct and unique subjective perspectives

Originally by Nicola Davies PhD - adapted from an article in Psychiatry Advisor Jan 16 Recent research has shed new light on psychological perspectives of time among patients undergoing addiction treatment. This promises to provide psychiatrists and psychologists with a better understanding of subjective experiences among patients attending addiction clinics. Researchers Dr Sarah Davies and Dr Pavlos Filippopoulos published their findings in the Journal of Groups in Addiction