Translating clinical
psychology research to practice could improve mental health care but it is challenging. Researchers often frame the problem in terms of uptake failure by clinicians. But are they doing clinically useful research? In press, American psychologist

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Involving lived experience experts in translational research

Comment by Andreas Meyer-Lindenberg & Silke Lipinski

Part of our Collection on lived experience expertise in mental health research: go.nature.com/3DOKEv6

Web: go.nature.com/3Dx3Rl7
PDF: rdcu.be/edAgn

#psychology #psychiatry #clinpsy

❗ New paper alert ❗ Excited to share our new work in Clinical Psychology Review with @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social & @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social

🔍 EMA is mainly used in research
📢 More research is needed on its benefits in clinical practice

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#EMA #PsychotherapyResearch

Abstract Background: Concerns over self-diagnosis of mental disorders amongst adolescents have been increasing, but very little empirical research exists to understand what clinicians think about this phenomenon or how it might impact psychological therapy. Method: Semi-structured one-to-one interviews were conducted with 16 mental health professionals, exploring their experiences with and attitudes towards self-diagnosis of mental disorders in adolescents. Reflexive thematic analysis was used to analyse the data. Results: Five themes were generated. The first two focused on factors contributing to the rise in self-diagnosis: (1) Self-diagnosis stems from an inherent need to be understood and (2) Access to diagnostic language has proliferated. The latter three focused on the impact of self-diagnosis on therapy: (3) Self-diagnosis is meaningful therapeutic material; (4) When adolescents feel validated, self-diagnosis often fades over time; and (5) Self-diagnosis becomes a barrier to change when it is inflexible. Discussion: The study indicates that, in most cases, clinicians do not consider self-diagnosis as problematic and report it can sometimes help understand the adolescent’s concerns. However, our study also supports concerns about harm to the individual when self-diagnosis is inflexible, and how self-diagnosis could be harmful on a population level if it trivialises psychiatric language and suffering. These findings suggest the need for careful management of self-diagnosis in clinical settings and addressing public discourse that promotes self-diagnosis.

🌟 NEW PREPRINT: Adolescent self-diagnosis of mental disorders: An interview study of clinicians’ perspectives (N=16)

Concerns over self-diagnosis are increasing, but research is limited. What do clinicians think about this phenomenon, and do they think it impacts therapy?

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How Accurate & Consistent are Self-Report responses via Visual Analogue Scales (VAS) in Ecological Momentary Assessment & Digital Studies?

Examined in a large EMA study (N = 3,761) w/L. Cloos @bsiepe.bsky.social @marilynpicciri1.bsky.social @eikofried.bsky.social @shirleybwang.bsky.social ... 🧵:

TONIGHT 🤩

Stationäre Psychiatrie: Leitliniengerechte Behandlung erfordert mehr Personal Bei den derzeit geltenden Personalvorgaben f�r die station�re Psychiatrie handelt es sich um Mindestvorgaben. Eine Analyse zeigt, dass f�r eine leitliniengerechte Behandlung von psychisch kranken Mens...

"...ergibt sich [...] im Durchschnitt ein personeller Mehrbedarf im ärztlichen und pflegerischen Bereich von 103 Prozent..."
Ach...
#Psychotherapie #Psychiatrie
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Join us online next Tuesday, January 28th at 17:00 CET to discuss speech-to-text, large language models, and natural language processing!

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The Unbearable Incoherence of Heritability: Interview with Eric Turkheimer Eric Turkheimer is Hugh Scott Hamilton Professor of Psychology at University of Virginia.

My interview with the indispensable @awaisaftab.bsky.social has been published. Challenging questions, gave me a lot of ideas to chew on. Got me thinking about how different the scientific politics of individual differences (like IQ) are from psychiatric genetics.

Dispelling “pleasing myths” about the integration of ecological momentary assessment and intervention into clinical research and practice Click on the article title to read more.

Why isn’t everyone using EMA in clinical assessment?

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The Metascience Movement Needs to be More Self-Critical - Absolutely Maybe Metascience – the study of science and its improvement – isn’t simply a field of science. There’s a movement, too. What’s more…

Useful read to check in if I am /you are humble enough to promote #OpenScience:

““Nothing is as visionary or as blinding as moral indignation”. That always poses a threat to being aware when you’re in the wrong.”

From @hildabast.bsky.social in absolutelymaybe.plos.org/2021/10/31/t...

One of my best friends is competing in a Strongman in a few weeks (badass, I know!!!)

They chose the pride flag as their representative flag. No problem according to the organizers.

The negative comments started coming in immediately.

Help me rally some positivity for them :) shorturl.at/yzE8u

Gender Identity, Biological Sex, and Psychopathology Back to Basics

Gender Identity, Biological Sex, and Psychopathology: Back to Basics

Pronouns are linguistic and social tools, not representations of sexual physiology.

www.psychiatrymargins.com/p/gender-ide...

Now out in @PsychScience, led by Yael Millgram and Matt Nock: Using EMA, we examined how knowledge about what made people emotional in their daily lives impacted their desire, ability, and success in emotion regulation. A really exciting research space in ER.

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What the most famous book about trauma gets wrong People kept telling me to read "The Body Keeps the Score." I was shocked at what it actually says.

An important critique of van der Kolk’s The Body Keeps the Score. #therapistsky #psychscisky www.motherjones.com/media/2024/1...

If you have anything to do with conducting, publishing, or reviewing qualitative research, read this perfect new paper: psycnet.apa.org/fulltext/202...

Clarke et al. (2024). “Being Really Confidently Wrong”: Qualitative Researchers’ Experiences of Methodologically Incongruent Peer Review Feedback.

Just uploaded a new video that provides a brief introduction and overview of HiTOP! Tash did awesome work on this one too.

Hope it can be useful for some of you - please do share it widely with anyone who you think might be able to use it: youtu.be/196rqdAv4_w

Awww (and yes definitely more active here 😇)

Not all types of depressed patients who persist with their antidepressant treatment improve in side effect complaints: A comparison of treatment completers and dropouts in the STAR*D trial Introduction There is a “traditional belief” that antidepressant side effect complaints improve with medication persistence; however, support for this theory has remained inconclusive. We aimed to e...

Patients are often informed that side effects of antidepressants are getting better over time. Is this evidence based?
A new STAR*D analysis shows that this is true for study completers but not for a substantial fraction who then drop out.
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What social scientists talk about when they talk about ‘Lived Experience’ Lived experience is a category of knowledge that is widely invoked across a range of social scientific research fields and the public sphere. Rather than seeking to create yet another definition, P…

💥New: Rather than seeking to create yet another definition, Paul Jones explores how the term is used in practice by sociologists and what this reveals about lived experience more broadly.

#AcademicSky #SocialResearch #ResearchMethods

Characterizing Emotion Dynamics in Remitted Depression: A Network Approach Using Ecological Momentary Assessment: http://osf.io/qcpv8/

So we took inspiration from @eikofried.bsky.social beautiful work on depression scales and aimed at doing something (loosely) similar. However, most time scales are based on affirmations to which participants have to agree/disagree. How do we know how similar these are?

Why mental health should be embedded across climate and health discussions at COP29 Climate change is profoundly affecting mental health and psychosocial wellbeing by increasing the risk for new mental health conditions and making people who are living with pre-existing and severe me...

"Prioritising investments in mental health should be a core strategy in equitably addressing climate change ... especially when considering the rights to wellbeing of future generations" www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

(Title based on one of my favorite childhood books)

If You Give a Therapist a Network: A Qualitative Analysis of Therapists' Reactions to Their Patients' EMA‐Based Network Models Objective Network models hold much promise for use in the form of personalized feedback, which the TheraNet Project aims to investigate. In the present study, we share therapists' first reactions to...

✨NEW PAPER✨

Network models being used as personalized feedback has been a growing area of interest. In this TheraNet Project paper, we share therapists' first reactions to patient network models based on ecological momentary assessment (EMA) data.

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My experience is that often a reviewer may be highly qualified to comment on some aspects, eg as content/topic expert, but has little competence on other aspects, eg methodology. Would be great if editors could assign reviewers to different roles related to the manuscript.

I think over the next few years the evidence will continue to accumulate that the majority of mental disorders are best treated with short, highly intensive therapies. This will challenge many assumptions on how therapy works.

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