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...

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

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L'homme qui empêchait le monde de s'effondrer.

Matt Black

This programme is now half full, just reposting for those who missed it first time…

tCBT are excited to publish the Editorial for the forthcoming Special Issue on CBT and addictions. We look forward to publish the papers over future weeks and months!

https://ow.ly/tpkt50YCoxP

I am honored to share that our article, “Twelve misconceptions about microaggressions and how they can appear in clinical practice,” has been officially published as Open Access in The Cognitive Behaviour Therapist!

Read more here: doi.org/10.1017/S175...

tCBT New Paper: The development and comparison of two treatment services for complex emotional needs in primary care: a feasibility and acceptability study of the H.O.P.E (Northumberland) and REDS (Cambridgeshire) services

Full free text at https://ow.ly/3huV50Yz0X4

Important and v clinically useful paper out today in tCBT.

Thanks @drmonnica.bsky.social and colleagues.

Open access so please share widely.

Saul Leiter, 1952

Killingworth New Town, North Tyneside, 1978, photo by Belgian photographer Martine Franck.

You say that, but I know where you live! 😂

CPD opportunity: developing skills in working with culture, ethnicity in #CBT

CBT therapists & clinical psychologists wanted 👇

We’re recruiting for a University of Oxford #DClinPsy research programme

🌱 Counts towards #BABCP CPD
📩 yuhan.murros@hmc.ox.ac.uk

See poster for details

Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology The Journal of Community & Applied Social Psychology publishes papers that cover the full spectrum of community and social psychology.

🗓 6 Weeks to Go.
If your research concerns members who are not directly involved in a misconduct, and how they respond to stories of misconduct in the public sphere (e.g., news and social media), now’s the time to get your paper ready.
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NHS staff survey shows racism deeply entrenched and disturbingly normalised | The King's Fund Sarah Woolnough, Chief Executive at The King’s Fund, responds to the results of the latest NHS Staff Survey and NHS performance figures.

The question is: what is the NHS going to do about this beyond performative actions? Little sign of anything beyond wram words from Wes Streeting so far

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‘It beggars belief’: MoD sources warn Palantir’s role at heart of government is a threat to UK’s security Experts say that claims UK data remains under government ownership miss the point that the company has the capability to build its own detailed picture of the British population, and even infer state ...

"Palantir, the US AI surveillance and security firm with hundreds of millions of pounds in UK government contracts, poses 'a national security threat to the UK', according to two anonymous high-level sources working with the Ministry of Defence."

Power and the sound of silence—A blog by Roger Kline Roger Kline, Research Fellow at Middlesex University Business School, explored the literature on patient safety and speaking up, arguing that staff being able to raise concerns safely and effectively ...

My latest blog as an introduction to a review of the literature on speaking up and the NHS.

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Ernst Haas

Saul Leiter

Read the full paper here too!

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Lake District stile in the mist

@lakesstiles.bsky.social

Misty Lord's Seat stile today!

The billionaires' eugenics project: how Epstein infiltrated Harvard, muzzled the humanities and preached master-race science Edge - Jeffrey Epstein's favourite intellectual salon - was sold to me as a gathering of the world's finest minds, writes Virginia Heffernan. The files reveal it was something far darker: a decades-lo...

NEW: Read this terrific piece @virginiaheffernan.bsky.social for @thenerve.news in which she unpicks Edge.org, the hugely influential 'salon' funded by Epstein & threaded through with race science & eugenics.
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services! Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.

Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...

Just going to leave this here

It’s known for making submarines. So how does this remote Cumbrian venue attract the world’s boldest musicians? In a park keeper’s lodge in Barrow-in-Furness, Full of Noises has hosted the likes of Julia Holter and Lonnie Holley – and is a model for why arts funding matters

www.theguardian.com/music/2026/f...

Starmer faces questions over visit to Palantir office alongside Mandelson Former ambassador was also shareholder in lobbying group that counted US tech firm as a client

New on FT website:

Downing Street has refused to say whether Sir Keir Starmer knew Palantir was a client of Peter Mandelson’s lobbying firm when they both visited the company in Washington last February — ahead of it winning a £240mn UK government contract.

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Palantir and NHS: BMA to tell members to limit use of tech system Doctors should not engage with any aspect of the NHS Federated Data Platform (FDP) outside direct patient care because of its links to the controversial US tech giant Palantir, the BMA says. The unio...

#BMJExclusive: Doctors should not engage with any aspect of the NHS Federated Data Platform outside direct patient care because of its links to the controversial US tech giant Palantir, the BMA says
https://bit.ly/3OnZxcG

Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information

Palantir. Agents for the IDF and for ICE. Now we know how they got huge NHS contracts. Time they were removed.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Morning all.

Photograph by Daniel Meadows. Workington, Cumbria, 1974.

Quayside, Newcastle upon Tyne, by Yvette Earl. #WomensArt #NorthernArt

L'aquarium

Harry Gruyaert

Sergio Larrain