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Gary Brown
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Prof of clin psych, Royal Holloway. Interested in how to measure what matters, especially within the CBT model. Against: red herrings, tail-wagged dogs, new wine in old bottles, straw men, reinventing the wheel. In favor of putting money where mouth is
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Please Repost: We're Hiring!
Senior Clin Psych/CBT Therapist (8a) in Manchester for exciting adolescent paranoia school's trial of an innovative imagery & values-based therapy. Led by myself & Dr Jess Kingston @drjk.bsky.social & colleagues including @richardbentall.bsky.social 👇
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September 25, 2025 at 2:18 PM
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"Different people respond differently to therapy."

Professor Jaime Delgadillo described his research into personalised treatment approaches at his inaugural lecture at the IoPPN last week. #Psychology #ScienceAtKings

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Matching patients to treatments: Professor Jaime Delgadillo delivers Inaugural Lecture “Advances in personalised and precision psychotherapy” | King's College London
On Tuesday 16 September 2025, Professor Jaime Delgadillo delivered his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.
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September 23, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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At the EABCT 2025, the Hannah Murray Award for tCBT Practitioner Paper of the Year was presented to Katherine Wakelin for 'Cognitive therapy for moral injury in post-traumatic stress disorder: integrating religious beliefs and practices'

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September 11, 2025 at 7:32 AM
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chrisdjtaylor.bsky.social
#TheMostInterestingThinginMentalHealth: #Insomnia is major factor contributing to many mental health problems. @ProfEspie University of Oxford
@ox.ac.uk gives top tips for clinicians at the European CBT Conference
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September 3, 2025 at 10:13 PM
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timbernard.me
Really, Alan Turing Institute?
turing.ac.uk using a Cloudflare real human verification check box test?!
June 6, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare (Gift Article)
It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.
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April 16, 2025 at 3:22 PM
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Chris Murphy 🟧 on X: "11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons. But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs. The people still have the power." / X
11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons. But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs. The people still have the power.
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April 3, 2025 at 8:39 AM
paperbag1.bsky.social
Duh.
markrubin.bsky.social Mark Rubin @markrubin.bsky.social · Feb 21
Alone but not Lonely!

New study finds "people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone."

Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Abstract Loneliness is a widespread issue routinely targeted by the media and public health campaigns. We propose that these efforts, though well-intentioned, may exacerbate this problem by negatively influencing a potential driver of loneliness: people’s beliefs about being alone. Supporting this thesis, we show that contemporary U.S. news articles are 10 times more likely to describe being alone as harmful than beneficial (Study 1, N = 144 articles) and that exposure to such articles causally impacts people’s beliefs about being alone (Study 2, N = 456). Further, a 2-week experience-sampling study (Study 3, N = 161) demonstrates that people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone. Finally, multi-national studies demonstrate the generalizability of these results across nine countries spanning six continents (Studies 4 and 5, N = 2930). Together, these findings reveal the critical role of beliefs about being alone in shaping loneliness.
February 23, 2025 at 1:55 PM
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markrubin.bsky.social
Alone but not Lonely!

New study finds "people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone."

Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s414...
Abstract Loneliness is a widespread issue routinely targeted by the media and public health campaigns. We propose that these efforts, though well-intentioned, may exacerbate this problem by negatively influencing a potential driver of loneliness: people’s beliefs about being alone. Supporting this thesis, we show that contemporary U.S. news articles are 10 times more likely to describe being alone as harmful than beneficial (Study 1, N = 144 articles) and that exposure to such articles causally impacts people’s beliefs about being alone (Study 2, N = 456). Further, a 2-week experience-sampling study (Study 3, N = 161) demonstrates that people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone. Finally, multi-national studies demonstrate the generalizability of these results across nine countries spanning six continents (Studies 4 and 5, N = 2930). Together, these findings reveal the critical role of beliefs about being alone in shaping loneliness.
February 21, 2025 at 6:20 PM
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Join our team on the DClinPsy at Royal Holloway!
Lecturer (Professional Practice, Permanent, 0.5 FTE) | 57,913–66,933 pro rata (incl. the clinical supplement) | Apply by 3 March 2025.

For more details and to apply, see 👇

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Job Opportunity at Royal Holloway University of London: Lecturer (Professional Practice)
Part-Time, Permanent (Up to a maximum of 0.5 FTE)We are very pleased to announce the availability of a lectureship (0.5 FTE) on the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology.  We are able to offer a candidate ...
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February 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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🎉We are hiring 1-2 postdoctoral fellows in my lab (webbslab.com) to work on NIMH/NCCIH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
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January 31, 2025 at 9:10 PM
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In an email the authors summarised "A key finding from this work is that there is limited statistical evidence to support the presence or absence of most edges in published networks. Approximately 80% of the edges we analyzed lack robust statistical support from the data."
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karolinehuth.bsky.social Karoline Huth @karolinehuth.bsky.social · Jan 24
Are psychometric networks sufficiently supported by data such that one can be confident when interpreting its results? We analysed 294 psychometric networks from 126 papers with the Bayesian approach to address this question @jmbh.bsky.social Sara Ruth van Holst @maartenmarsman.bsky.social 🧵
psyarxivbot.bsky.social PsyArXivBot @psyarxivbot.bsky.social · Jan 16
Statistical Evidence in Psychological Networks: A Bayesian Analysis of 294 Networks from 126 Studies: http://osf.io/62ydg/
January 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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I keep reading and hearing that political leaders and analysts should understand Trump’s behaviour as transactional. The word you’re looking for is ‘corrupt’.
January 22, 2025 at 8:15 AM
paperbag1.bsky.social
The idea that we can just slice up therapies into components because that's the way our brains would prefer to understand them is misguided. "Active ingredients", eh? These aren't headache remedies.
imo-b.bsky.social Dr Imo Bell @imo-b.bsky.social · Jan 16
Interesting study exploring active ingredients of #iCBT w factorial design - exposure and psychoed more effective than cog restructuring and attention training (at post but not FU). karger.com/pps/article-...
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January 16, 2025 at 11:16 AM
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🎉My lab (webbslab.com) is hiring 2 full-time research assistants to work on NIMH-funded projects focused on the causes and treatment of depression in teens. Please RT and share! Apply⬇️
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January 15, 2025 at 8:44 PM
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I’d love to connect with people working in #globalmentalhealth - please RT so I can make new friends 😀
January 14, 2025 at 8:45 AM
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tCBT New paper: Cognitive therapy for moral injury in post-traumatic stress disorder: integrating religious beliefs and practices

Full free text at https://buff.ly/40cPObs
Abstract screenshot https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-cognitive-behaviour-therapist/article/cognitive-therapy-for-moral-injury-in-posttraumatic-stress-disorder-integrating-religious-beliefs-and-practices/412C2F692DAF3EAEABD52B8D4A347832
January 9, 2025 at 1:03 PM
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Fantastic new job opportunity in Sussex @SPFT_NHS @Research_SPFT for a principal psychological (CBTp) therapist on the SloMo (digitally supported therapy for paranoia) implementation study - work in Brighton & make a real change to services for psychosis

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Job vacancy: Principal Psychological Therapist (SlowMo), Sussex Partnership NHS FoundationTrust, Hove | trac.jobs
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January 8, 2025 at 8:17 PM
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We're hiring! We are launching a new online MSc in Psychology & Trauma at UCL. We're hiring an Associate Professor (Programme Co-Director) and a Lecturer. Please share widely with people who have expertise in Adult Psychological Trauma.

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UCL – University College London
UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).
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January 5, 2025 at 1:08 PM
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warrenmansell.bsky.social Warren Mansell @warrenmansell.bsky.social · Dec 20
The article has a good purpose.

However none of these definitions echo our 2004 definition in the context of CBT, nor the sense in which we use PCT for universal ‘transdiagnostic’ principles.

We go ‘beyond’ any subgrouping & apply universal principles within each individual, dynamically.
December 20, 2024 at 10:18 AM
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NEW ARTICLE: In this short piece, Jack Andrews and I argue that, based on the evidence we now have, the field should move away from universal school-based mental health interventions and focus on more effective alternatives

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summary thread below:
Abstract There is an urgent need to improve mental health outcomes among young people. One approach taken to address this problem has been the design and delivery of universal school-based prevention, based on therapeutic models such as CBT and mindfulness. Such interventions are delivered to groups of young people, irrespective of risk or need. However, in this commentary, we argue that the initial appeal of universal interventions has not been supported by the evidence: universal school-based prevention is less effective than targeted approaches, often leads to null or unsustained positive effects, has the potential to elicit negative effects and is not well liked by young people themselves. In addition, many young people in each classroom already meet the criteria for a mental disorder, meaning that prevention approaches may not be appropriate or effective for this group. In this commentary, we respond to Birrell et al.'s (2025) paper by arguing that the field should move away from universal prevention and instead invest our limited resources in the refinement and dissemination of interventions with a stronger evidence base, such as one-to-one, targeted and indirect approaches.
December 10, 2024 at 2:42 PM
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A watershed in the field or another chapter in the annals of crud? Must read and decide. Once I have read my other 150 must reads....

Associations between cognitive appraisals and emotions: A meta-analytic review. doi.org/10.1037/bul0...
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December 10, 2024 at 6:19 PM
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Editorial celebrating the work of Hannah Murray, who left us far too soon.
Enhancing your delivery of cognitive therapy for PTSD: a celebration of the work of Hannah Murray | the Cognitive Behaviour Therapist | Cambridge Core
Enhancing your delivery of cognitive therapy for PTSD: a celebration of the work of Hannah Murray - Volume 17
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December 9, 2024 at 2:39 PM
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And then after the right-wing noise machine plants the attacks in everyone’s head Dems act like the attacks were foreseeable and their error was picking someone who could be attacked. No, it’s the noise machine!
November 27, 2024 at 6:54 PM
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London please help. I’m praying for a miracle, I’ve just got into the office and noticed my mums locket (in all these photos) that I wear every day has fallen off my neck on my walk in. My mum died when I was seven and her jewellery is most of what I have of her. I’m devastated
November 26, 2024 at 9:11 AM