New paper
Acceptance & mindfulness fully mediated the link between chronic conditions and distress (N=324).
Next step: idiographic research using EMA, SCEDs, and forecasting models = build personalized process-based interventions
Full text: www.ibrt.gr/eidikoi/peri...
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📢 New Alopecia Meta‑Synthesis
• Identity changes
• Acceptance varies
• Concealment taxing
• Coping shaped by others
• Support unmet needs
Personalised psychological care + co‑produced services
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bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
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Thrilled to celebrate 5/5 qualified Clinical Psychologists (okay… two are being hide- chasing them for their final papers! 😅)
Why do we do what we do
- Making progress
- Driving clinical science
- Training health professionals in evidence-based practice
Proud of this group — the future looks bright
Co-presenting today with my doctoral trainee Ana Calladine- Personalising Process-Based Therapy Day
We lack direct evidence for personalising paediatric headache care — and our proof-of-concept study is promising.
More soon… publication on the way! 📢
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Ran a workshop on psychological flexibility for Oxford staff — great conversations on resilience, values, and managing everyday pressures. Grateful for the engaged group
Staff wellbeing is foundational to effective,sustainable university services
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Our new study is out
Self-as-Context (SAC): a promising tool for managing cancer-related pain.
SAC
- can support active coping with cancer pain
- a more stable sense of self during distress
- More EMA research needed
🔗 www.mdpi.com/2227-9032/13...
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|| New Study ||
Community-based ACT helps in the rheumatic management of pain and emotions
Body awareness, mindfulness, and values: key but dynamic
bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
Community delivery=accessible psychosocial care
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🌍 Day 1 of Demystifying Personalization in Psychotherapy kicks off in Athens!
Diving into Process-Based Therapy- reimagining how we personalize care in mental health
Let’s move beyond protocols - toward processes empowering change
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|| 1 WEEK BEFORE our FIRST Bootcamp
🔶 PERSONALIZED PSYCHOTHERAPY! 🔶
The future of psychotherapy is personalised, data-driven, and process-based.
1st Process-Based Therapy (PBT) Training Bootcamp in Athens, Greece
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👉
www.acg.edu/academics/ce...
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🧠 Presented today at #NPCE on personalised psychological care for youth.
Why it matters:
📱 Therapy that adapts daily
🎯 Goals that evolve with the adolescent
🔄 Real-time nudges = real change
Mental health care is going personal — and digital.
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🎶 Can Music Help with Chronic Pain? 🎶
|| Launching the first exploring how listening to favorite music in everyday life can support people living with chronic pain.
Easy to take part – just listen to music & feed data
rhulpsychology.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_... @rhulpsychology.bsky.social
Our new meta-analysis- 37 studies
🧩Anxious or avoidant attachment are less self-compassionate.
🧩Older adults with avoidant styles (keeping emotional distance) may struggle more with self-kindness.
💡 Find it OA here: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../papt.12590
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🔍 Our New Meta-analysis-37 studies
💡 Anxious or avoidant attachment are less self-compassionate.
🧩 Older adults with avoidant styles (keeping emotional distance) struggle more with self-kindness.
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💡 => Find it OA here: bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/.../papt.12590
|| INVITED TALK || Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece
=> Monday, 03/ 17th at 18.30 pm EET, we'll be diving into MyUSE intervention for young adults.
- Tackling gateway drug use
- Personalizing behaviour changes
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authgr.zoom.us/j/9407569433....
📷 ID: 940 7569 4338 | Passcode: 290228
Call for participants in the UK with skin conditions to test a new psychological intervention
What You’ll Get:
· 5 personalized, sessions online
· Practical tools, support, personalised guidance
· Delivered through an app or via the web
SIGN UP TODAY: lnkd.in/eY6AKPH5
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|| 1st YEAR's PAPER||
Taking the big elephant in the room, out: STIGMA in Chronic Pain
- A multifaceted experience
- Originates from social determinants
- Generates adverse outcomes
What do we need:
- Multilevel interventions
-Compassion & equity
doi.org/10.1016/j.co...
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