Our dedicated page for the tCBT Special Issue ‘Are we ready? CBT and addiction’ is now live. We will add new papers to this as they are published. Please share with anyone interested!

https://ow.ly/VpU750YNOym

⏳3 months until the BABCP Annual Conference ⏳

Still wondering what our Conference is all about? Take a look at the energy and connections that made last year unforgettable in the link below🎥✨

https://ow.ly/9xXJ50YKP82

#Conference2026 #CBT #MentalHealth#Networking #IndustryEvent

Let's Talk about CBT- Research Matters: Using CBT with adult survivors of human trafficking with Francesca Brady and Rachel Witkin In this episode, Steph Curnow speaks with Fran Brady and Rachel Witkin about their paper, A phased approach for using CBT with adult survivors of human trafficking, published in The Cognitive Behaviou...

🎙️ New episode of Research Matters!

How can CBT be adapted to support survivors of human trafficking?

Listen now 👇
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Come and meet the WortSchatzInsel team at #ScienceGoesCity in Göttingen on Sunday!

We have multiple job alerts by SFB members to share:

Marcella Woud (@marcellawoud.bsky.social) at @uni-goettingen.de is looking for a PhD student to study face perception in social anxiety:

www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

i will stake a strong claim and say that it is almost never a bad idea for you, a grad student, to roll up to a conference and just introduce yourself to people you'd like to talk to. profs absolutely love talking to students. just go for it!! we're nice!

A sign saying "Liebe" ("love" in German) hangs above a set of empty library shelves

The "Romance" section of our local library contains all the great German works in this genre - so inspiring.

New paper by Amani Lavefjord, @larsklintwall.bsky.social & colleagues: Testing the network centrality hypothesis in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy with Perceived Causal Networks in a Single Case Experimental Design. Results are mixed, the design is worth a look! 🔗 doi.org/10.1016/j.jc... #ACT

🌟 We're delighted to have Dr Jessica Richardson hosting a BABCP Spring Conference workshop 🌟 

Her topic is Skillfully navigating complexities when working with Children and Young People with PTSD and Complex PTSD with flexible and innovative tools or adaptations.
https://ow.ly/GJjT50YwR1H

Our new paper on brain networks engaged during imagining is out now in Neuron!

Here is a download link (free for 50 days):
authors.elsevier.com/c/1msNE3BtfH...

Congratulations to Nate Anderson for leading this work @rementurus.bsky.social

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...*That* Nick only brings presents to the well-behaved; the rest just receive a lump of coal. True, drinking this beer increases the risk of you landing in this latter group, but at least you'll be able to make a nice fire to enjoy the beer beside.

... to cope with the high gravity I used a Belgian ale yeast, giving it a bit more of a Flemish character. Then casked it on 6th December, leading to confusion with another, very different Nick...

A bottle of very fine looking beer from the Longwall Brewery (motto: Cerevisia omnia vincit), "Oude Nick" with an original gravity of 1102, next to a glass of the beer.

Latest home-brewed beer from the Longwall Brewery: I was feeling nostalgic for "Old Nick", the barley wine formerly brewed by Young's so decided to make my own. But...

Large-group one-session treatment: Feasibility and efficacy in 138 individuals with phobic fear of flying Recent research suggests that exposure-based large-group one-session treatments (LG-OSTs) may represent useful and efficient treatment options for dif…

That was for the first of these studies - sadly they didn't assess how many of those who didn't want to enter the plane were VfL Bochum fans: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

tCBT New Paper: Twelve misconceptions about microaggressions and how they can appear in clinical practice

Full free paper here: https://ow.ly/BsWH50Yz0Wb

A Large-Group 1-Day RCT Investigating the Effectiveness of Four Different Strategies to Promote the Outcome of Exposure Therapy in 519 Patients with Phobic Fear of Flying Abstract. Introduction: Despite its status as the gold standard for treating fear and anxiety, exposure therapy leaves room for optimization. Clarifying and testing the clinical relevance of proposed ...

519 Patient:innen in 4 Flugzeugen - eine sehr spannende Erfahrung, die nun auch publiziert wurde.
Fazit: One Session Treatment als Gruppentherapie wirkt!

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Planning this required learning how to do the sequential Bayesian analyses for a logistic regression, which was a nice side-effect of being involved!

The protocol paper also links to the R scripts for the simulations so you can see how this was done.

Very pleased to see this protocol published for a trial led by Sho Okawa investigating guided parent-delivered CBT for children with anxiety disorders via remote sessions in Japan - another nice application of a Bayesian sequential design!

bmjopen.bmj.com/content/16/3...

Wir suchen Verstärkung für unser Team am Therapie- und Beratungszentrum: An der Universität Göttingen ist eine Stelle als Psychologischer Psychotherapeutin / Lehrtherapeut*in (w/m/d) ausgeschrieben – wir freuen uns über Bewerbungen!
www.uni-goettingen.de/de/644546.ht...

Conceptually it makes sense, and could be very useful - let's see if it replicates.

This is an interesting set of studies investigating a memory reactivation + eye movements intervention - results suggest that reactivation outside of conscious awareness (masked visual reminder cues) is effective in reducing intrusive memories:

www.pnas.org/doi/10.1073/...

✨️Preprint: Awareness & Use of Open Research Practices: An International Survey of Researchers Across Disciplines

📝We surveyed >3,000 researchers (45 countries; 24 disciplines)

📌We show variation in open research adoption across regions, disciplines, methodology, & career level🌎

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Not just spontaneous remission: Time-dependent and independent effects in pre-intervention symptom reduction Psychological symptoms tend to change over time, even in the absence of clinical intervention. For example, self-ratings are often higher at screening…

🎉 I just published my second paper! Woo!
In psychotherapy trials we often see that symptoms reduce between screening and start of treatment. A plausible idea about that is that patients self-refer when their fluctuating symptoms are extra bad. We checked! (we tried to check) //

A crowdsourced megastudy of 12 digital single-session interventions for depression in US adults Nature Human Behaviour - An online experiment compared 12 brief online interventions for depression. Most improved mental health immediately, but these gains decreased over time, with only two...

Our crowdsourced megastudy comparing a diverse set of 12 single-session interventions for depression is out today in @nathumbehav.nature.com!

Read the full paper here: rdcu.be/e6pzz (no paywall)

We also published a brief non-academic piece about the study today: theconversation.com/free-10-minu...

Maternal information sampling targets children's knowledge gaps According to recent computational approaches, when children are presented with information by knowledgeable others, children can make the pedagogical …

New @sfb1528.bsky.social and @rtg2906-curiosity.bsky.social publication. We show that mothers are worthy of the pedagogical assumption: they preferentially sample information that fills their child's knowledge gaps and children learn best from maternal sampling: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Uptake, Barriers, and Facilitators of Open Science in Clinical Psychology: Findings from an Exploratory Survey in German-speaking Countries: https://osf.io/cyfqv

Last call for submissions to #BABCP2026 in Warwick! Make sure you get in your posters, open papers, and 3MTs today and join us for another amazing conference in July!

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Looks like double-bling to me.

I hope they report on whether there were any lapses of bling.

There's still time to take part in #BABCP2026 at the University of Warwick from 14-16 July. You can submit Open papers, Posters or 3-minute talks, but hurry, the deadline is only one week away, closing on 27 Feb. Find out more about taking part at our Annual Conference👇
https://ow.ly/jNTu50Yi4L0

A digital imagery-competing task intervention for stopping intrusive memories in trauma-exposed health-care staff during the COVID-19 pandemic in the UK: a Bayesian adaptive randomised clinical trial Psychological trauma, such as witnessing an untimely or gruesome death, commonly provokes intrusive memories that might persist for days to years with…

Great to see another RCT out showing promising results for an imagery-competing task (Tetris) in reducing intrusive memories amongst healthcare workers. Also nice to see another sequential Bayeisan design!

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...