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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Apr 16

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🙏🏾 Huge thanks to wonderful co-authors: @julianburger.bsky.social, @larsklintwall.bsky.social, Julia Glombiewski; editorial handling: @aidangcw.bsky.social and signed review: @cherilev.bsky.social

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Apr 16

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🔍 Tested with 12 patients and their therapists, the approach showed:
✔️ Feasible, relevant, and useful in practice
✔️ Highest face validity for the posterior - updated - network

➡️ Next: Tightening the loop between theory and data.

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Apr 16

1/3 🚨Case conceptualization at the next level: This study combines perceived causal networks with intensive longitudinal data to create individual, data-updated models of psychopathology. Read more 👇🏾
📰 Open access: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...
🔗Open data, material, code: osf.io/r5xfg/files/...

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Soren 🌱 they/them @sorenable.bsky.social · Mar 13

I’ve never seen it put so succinctly before! Even as a disabled person myself, I struggle a lot with internalized ableism.

These 12 all two common narratives about disability can be difficult to unlearn, but that work is important.

(Created by Jamie Shields, founder of Disabled By Society.)

A Disabled by Society graphic by Disabled by Society serving 12 narratives to unlearn about disability. The dark-themed design features colorful icons and text debunking common misconceptions: 1. "Disability is a tragedy" – A broken violin. 2. "Productivity defines worth" – A bar chart with an upward arrow and gears. 3. "Disabled people are a burden" – A person carrying a money bag labeled "Cost." 4. "Inclusion is optional" – A hand pressing a checkmark button. 5. "Disabled lives need fixing" – A person running with a wrench. 6. "Access is a privilege" – A stick figure inside a circle. 7. "All disability is visible" – A person in a wheelchair. 8. "Disability equals suffering" – A person holding their head with pain lines. 9. "We 'overcome' disability" – A person holding a flag on a mountain. 10. "Independence means success" – A hand holding a waving flag. 11. "Adjustments are special treatment" – A hand adjusting a scale. 12. "Disability is not normal" – A hand making an "OK" gesture with sparkles.

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Eiko Fried @eikofried.bsky.social · Feb 20

Here you go. Curious if you think this is helpful (I tried very hard to make exactly the point you're suggesting to make).

journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Studying Mental Health Problems as Systems, Not Syndromes - Eiko I. Fried, 2022

Despite decades of clinical, sociopolitical, and research efforts, progress in understanding and treating mental health problems remains disappointing. I discus...

journals.sagepub.com

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Sarah J. Jackson @sjjphd.bsky.social · Dec 15

Always surprised how many folk on social media are unaware that highly visible women online regularly get threatened w/ rape and other violence. Happens to every woman w/ a substantial following I know, has for a decade regardless of platform. And no, authorities don’t care and that’s no solution.

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Pam Davis-Kean, PhD @umpamdk.bsky.social · Dec 6

Middle childhood is a time of major biological change (puberty) and contextual change (elementary to middle school)--could this be an important timepoint for understanding important changes in the individual and perhaps an intervention point? Find out here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/share/SSWWK7...

Positioning adolescence in the developmental timeline

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Dec 4

4/ 📊 Effects are tracked with Tau-U, Hedges’ g, and pain disability measures at baseline, post-treatment, and 3-month follow-up. Dive into the full complexity of the design, here 👉 bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1... and let us know what you think! 🙋🏿‍♂️🙋🏻‍♀️🙋🏽🙋🏾‍♀️

How to personalise cognitive–behavioural therapy for chronic primary pain using network analysis: study protocol for a single-case experimental design with multiple baselines

Introduction Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for chronic primary pain (CPP), but effect sizes are small to moderate. Process orientation, personalisation, and data-driven...

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Dec 4

3/ 📝 A single-case experimental design is combined with 21 days of ecological momentary assessment (EMA) to capture processes of pain. Treatment targets are identified with personalized networks.

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Dec 4

2/ 🕸️ CPP is complex and varies widely. Network analysis maps individual patterns—showing how physical, emotional, and social factors interact. Process-oriented individualized network-based therapy (POINT-Pain) is cutting-edge project using network analysis to guide personalized interventions.

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Dec 4

1/ 💢 Chronic primary pain (CPP) is tough to treat, with cognitive-behavioral therapy (CBT) showing small to moderate effects. Can personalization enhance outcomes? The study protocol is out now: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/14/1...

How to personalise cognitive–behavioural therapy for chronic primary pain using network analysis: study protocol for a single-case experimental design with multiple baselines

Introduction Cognitive–behavioural therapy (CBT) is an effective treatment for chronic primary pain (CPP), but effect sizes are small to moderate. Process orientation, personalisation, and data-driven...

bmjopen.bmj.com

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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · Nov 12

New blog post, in which I look at two positions on how new developments occur in psychotherapy.

tkaiser.science/posts/innova...

Innovation in psychotherapy - Tim Kaiser's page

A while ago, I started a Twitter survey on whether psychology is the “mother science” of psychotherapy. Roughly two-thirds agreed with the statement I thought would be uncontroversial. As an...

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Nov 12

Well done! Could you add me please.

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Tim Kaiser @tkaiser.science · Oct 21

I made a clinical psychology/psychotherapy research starter pack thingy. If you are new here and interested in these topics, feel free to follow!

go.bsky.app/Qk93DiE

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Nov 12

It would be great if you could add me to the starter pack. This is such an important movement to connect researchers on bluesky, thanks a lot for this!

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Miri Forbes @miriforbes.bsky.social · Oct 22

Not sure if I’m doing this right, but I’ve had a go at starting a ‘Reconceptualising psychopathology’ starter pack (e.g., HiTOP, RDoC, dynamic systems, clinical staging). Please do send me suggestions or requests to be added!

go.bsky.app/Pek9ycQ

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Omid V. Ebrahimi @omidvebrahimi.bsky.social · Oct 24

Starter pack for EMA, ESM, and Intensive Longitudinal Researchers.

Feel free to share, follow, and nominate. Suggestions welcome!

go.bsky.app/LzqJoUX

#ESM #EMA #AA #IntensiveLongitudinalResearch

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Zsuzsanna Chappell @zsuzsannachappell.bsky.social · Nov 9

Lots of new people have joined again. Please let me know of people I should add to this mental health research starter pack.

Also wondering if I should keep maintaining this or it's better done by someone who spends more time on here? Do people find it useful? 🧵

go.bsky.app/MfWbYvP

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Nov 12

Thanks for putting together this starter pack. Could you add me? I am doing n-of-1 research using longitudinal data because I am interested in clinical decision making and personalization of psychotherapy. Thanks!

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Nov 12

Dear Zsuzsanna, thanks for initiating and managing this amazing starter pack. I am doing mental health research on clinical decision making, personalizing psychotherapy, in particular chronic pain, and it would be great if you could add me to the starter pack. Thanks in advance!

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Oct 5

2/2 What do you think?

We believe it’s due to challenges with interpretation and implementation.

Read our reflections here: osf.io/preprints/ps...

Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Oct 5

1/2: Do you see yourself a researcher AND a therapist? 🤔 We do ! @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @julianburger.bsky.social @milahall.bsky.social, Miriam Hehlmann and I reflected on why ambulatory assessment data 🤳 isn’t widely used in clinical practice 📊?! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Oct 5

1/2: Do you see yourself a researcher AND a therapist? 🤔 We do ! @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @julianburger.bsky.social @milahall.bsky.social, Miriam Hehlmann and I reflected on why ambulatory assessment data 🤳 isn’t widely used in clinical practice 📊?! osf.io/preprints/ps...

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Richard Sever @richardsever.bsky.social · Sep 4

Academics waking up to the 'predatory' special issue strategy? www.ce-strategy.com/the-brief/re...

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Aug 30

🚨 Call for papers 🚨
Special issue of Cognitive Therapy and Research on applying the network approach to mental disorders. 🕸️
▶️ Share your latest work and include a careful discussion of methodology and lessons learned. ✍️
📨 Submit your abstract by October 1, 2024: go.uni-regensburg.de/network-papers

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Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Aug 7

I should have mentioned that we did this 👉Bayesian Meta-Regression to estimate heterogeneity of treatment effects in ❗️psychological treatments of CHRONIC PAIN❗️

Saskia Scholten @saskiascholten.bsky.social · Aug 6

1/2 Out now 👉 A Bayesian variance ratio meta-regression with @herzog.bsky.social @tkaiser.science @JuliaGlombiewski (not here yet)
Check it out! 👇
journals.lww.com/pain/abstrac...

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