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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 23d

All control conditions in randomized trials of psychological treatment have serious problems. Maybe we should stop using them at some point? Read my new open access paper in World Psychiatry
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Has the time come to stop using control groups in trials of psychosocial interventions?

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Sep 1

Are you interested in what science says about the effects of therapy? Listen to the interview that Dr. Anya Borissova had with me on The Thinking Mind Podcast

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E138 What Does Science Reveal About Therapy? (w/ Prof. Pim Cuijpers) - The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy

Pim Cuijpers. Ph.D. is professor emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Vrije Universiteit Amste...

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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · Aug 21

Psychotherapists have claimed for >100 years that they provide/adjust interventions in view of the client's characteristics -- but all based on their personal experiences and opinions. Here we have the first-ever system to do so based on evidence.

Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · Aug 21

Evidence-based personalized & optimized CBT skills for depression, based on a trial of 4469 adults. The Resilience Training App will augment the efficacy by 35% overall over the group average best, and by 64% for those whose best option wasn’t this group average best!
www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Personalised & optimised therapy (POT) algorithm using five cognitive and behavioural skills for subthreshold depression - npj Digital Medicine

npj Digital Medicine - Personalised & optimised therapy (POT) algorithm using five cognitive and behavioural skills for subthreshold depression

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Aug 13

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/sp...

Stop het leed in Gaza

Het sentiment onder de Nederlandse burgers heeft de politiek en het politieke handelen al lang en breed ingehaald. Het gebrek aan concrete actie om het leed nu te stoppen maakt de Nederlander machtelo...

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Ella W Tuominen @ellatuominen.bsky.social · Jul 30

Diving into how #CBT tackles a wide range of mental health conditions in my new blog, reviewing @pimcuijpers.bsky.social and co new meta-analysis. If you care about evidence-based therapy and when to explore options beyond the basics, check it out on @thementalelf.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/DbNCq8k ☀️

The strengths and limitations of CBT across mental health conditions

CBT is a cornerstone of mental health care, but how well does it work across disorders? New meta-analysis offers some answers and raises new questions.

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Jun 23

None. There is no association between the effects of therapies and the number of sessions. See Ciharova 2024

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Jun 10

Led by the Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, Gin Mahli, we wrote an Editorial about recent changes to US research funding, the far-reaching consequences of this for science, and the importance to resist this.
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The value of mental science: we publish what matters | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

The value of mental science: we publish what matters

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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · Jun 8

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · May 31

The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly
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The MAHA Report Has Been Updated With Fresh Errors

One psychologist who is newly cited in the report said the updated reference misconstrues his research.

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · May 21

No innovation in the treatment of depression will be a ’silver bullet’ that will dramatically change the outcomes. Only together can innovations really improve outcomes. Read our new paper in the Br J Psychiatry. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social and @toshi-frkw.bsky.social
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Assessing the strength of innovations in the treatment of depression | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core

Assessing the strength of innovations in the treatment of depression

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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · May 14

"Five decades of research on psychological treatments of depression: A historical and meta-analytic overview"—free-to-read article by @pimcuijpers.bsky.social, @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social, Marketa Ciharova, & Eirini Karyotaki bit.ly/437n7OT #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Apr 29

Our new network meta-analysis of treatment formats in CBT for eating disorders found no significant difference between individual, group, guided self-help and unguided self, and all were effective. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social and others
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Delivery formats of cognitive behavior therapy in adults with eating disorders: a network meta-analysis

Although CBT has been found to be effective in the treatment of eating disorders, it is not clear if there are differences between treatment formats. We conducted a network meta-analysis (NMA) of r...

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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · Apr 23

news.arizona.edu/news/new-pre... Out today - our protocol paper describing an ENORMOUS effort led by Ellen Driessen leveraging all available RCT data from depression trials comparing ADM/CT/BA/IPT/PDT (>60 studies, nearing 10K patients) to develop precision treatment selection decision support tools

New precision mental health care approach for depression addresses unique patient needs | University of Arizona News

U of A psychologists teamed up with Radboud University in the Netherlands to develop a precision treatment approach for depression that gives patients individualized recommendations based on multiple ...

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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · Apr 23

The master protocol design, involving four 2x2 factorial trials, and the digital platform contributed to the successful completion of this RESiLIENT trial. Scalable. Affordable. Global. @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @alexiswhitton.bsky.social @masasakata.bsky.social

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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · Apr 21

Pim Cuijpers and the team has published a comprehensive meta-analysis of CBT for 12 mental disorders, from psychosis to depression to specific phobia. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults

This unified series of meta-analyses examines the effect sizes of cognitive behavior therapy for many mental and eating disorders on symptoms of the respective disorders using uniform methodologies fo...

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Apr 18

Listen to the podcast in which I discuss the most important findings of our meta-analysis of CBT for 11 mental disorders, that was just published in JAMA Psychiatry
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults

Interview with Pim Cuijpers, PhD, author of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults: A Unified Series of Meta-Analyses. Hosted by John Torous, MD

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Apr 16

Today our new unified series of meta-analyses of CBT for 11 mental disorders was published in JAMA Psychiatry. Another nice example of a 'next level' meta-analysis of the Metapsy initiative. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social, and many others
jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults

This unified series of meta-analyses examines the effect sizes of cognitive behavior therapy for many mental and eating disorders on symptoms of the respective disorders using uniform methodologies fo...

jamanetwork.com

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Apr 7

Our historical and meta-analytic overview of 562 RCTs on psychotherapies for depression was just published in the April Issue of the American Psychologist. The evidence that therapies are effective is strong and growing every year.

www.americanpsychologist-digital.org/americanpsyc...

American Psychologist - Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression: A Historical and Meta-Analytic Overview

Pim Cuijpers, Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel, Marketa Ciharova, and Eirini Karyotaki

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Heleen Riper @heleenzz.bsky.social · Apr 6

Hoeksteen van dit regeringsbeleid: de angst voor verfrissende inzichten

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Heleen Riper @heleenzz.bsky.social · Apr 2

Esther Ouwehand @estherouwehand.bsky.social · Apr 2

Dit debat gaat niet over lintjes. Dit debat gaat over het zoveelste circus dat dit kabinet zélf veroorzaakt heeft. En dit keer over de rug van vluchtelingen en de lieve mensen die hen helpen. Kom niet janken dat problemen niet worden opgelost als je zelf de problemen veroorzaakt

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Apr 1

Don’t miss the webinar I will give on prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents on May 22nd

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Mar 27

Today the well-respected German journal “Die Zeit” published an extensive interview with me about psychotherapies for depression. If you can read German and want to know what the best therapy is, long-term effects and much more, you should certainly read it
www.zeit.de/2025/13/psyc...

Psychologie: Das hilft wirklich gegen Depressionen

Psychotherapie oder Medikamente? Tiefenpsychologie oder Verhaltenstherapie? Seit 17 Jahren erforscht Pim Cuijpers, wie Menschen Depressionen überwinden.

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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · Mar 25

Prevention & treatment of depression in children and adolescents with @pimcuijpers.bsky.social

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Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents

Depression in children and adolescents is a major public health problem. Prevention and treatment can help reduce the disease burden of depression. Pim Cuijpers gives an overview of the research on pr...

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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · Mar 25

A Special Issue on Prevention of depression was just published in the April issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. I had the honor of editing this issue together with Tracy Gladstone and Mike Silverstein from Brown University. See the Introduction here
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Clara Miguel @claramiguel.bsky.social · Mar 13

Our new paper on self-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression can be read open-access in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences!

Here is a short summary of our findings🧵
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Self-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression: a meta-analysis of randomized trials | Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences | Cambridge Core

Self-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression: a meta-analysis of randomized trials - Volume 34

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