Submissions to the 7th UK-EU SPR conference are open until
🔥📆 Friday 27th February
https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/uk-eu-spr2026
The conference theme is
Putting #Psychotherapy Practice at the Heart of Research: Amplifying the Clients' Voices
Last time I tried to reach Bristol, a certain volcano made it impossible. 🌋 #Iceland
Maybe there is a chance this year? 😅
Looking forward to today's meeting of the SPR's European Psychotherapy Consortium
Danilo Moggia and I will present on linking measures of psychological distress and cross-cultural analyses.
A brief overview of thoughts and resources can be found in this presentation from last year:
https://www.researchgate.net/publication/382172059_Analytical_routines_to_align_instrument_scores
And more about the consortium here:
https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/SPR-EU-Consortium
#Itembank #Psychometrics #PsychotherapyResearch #GlobalMentalHealth
A review of adverse events in psychotherapy #RCT -s:
https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.1080/10503307.2023.2286992#d1e405
In 81 RCTs (since 2007; 126 psychotherapy vs 61 control conditions) harmful effects were reported in 60% of the studies.
Based on these data, one can expect adverse events to affect 1/10 (serious adverse events 1/21) patients.
Finished delivering my virtual course on quality assurance for psychotherapeutic interventions at the European Center for Psychotherapy and #PsychotherapyResearch in #Trier
I felt a bit odd when I needed to admit in the opening round that it was raining in #Dundee.
Funnily enough, Trier & #Dundee have similar precipitation profiles 😅
The Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award going to Clara Paz was excellent news at #SPRKrakow2025, very well-deserved! 👏
https://www.linkedin.com/posts/udla-investiga_internacional-despiertatupasiaejn-udlainvestiga-activity-7343749055069519874-4mAM/
🌍 Premio internacional para investigación UDLA en salud mental Con orgullo compartimos que hoy, nuestra investigadora Clara Paz, jefa del grupo Bienestar, Salud y Sociedad, ha sido reconocida con el Outstanding Early Career Achievement Award por la Society for Psychotherapy Research (SPR), en el marco de su reunión anual realizada en Cracovia, Polonia. Este reconocimiento #internacional destaca la relevancia y proyección de su trayectoria científica en el campo de la psicoterapia, así como su contribución al desarrollo de una salud mental basada en evidencia y con enfoque social. La Dra. Paz se convierte en un referente regional en investigación clínica, y este logro posiciona a la Universidad de Las Américas (EC) como un actor clave en la generación de conocimiento con impacto humano. #DespiertaTuPasión #UDLAinvestiga
The presentation by @kopf-beck.bsky.social provides makes connections between the results of the OPTIMA trial
https://pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC10880804/
(schema therapy in psychiatric care program showed #noninferiority compared to CBT)
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2024/9191823
and comparative work on clinical interviews, questionnaires, and ecological momentary assessment outcomes within the trial
https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1155/2024/9191823
Schema therapy (ST) reduces depressive symptoms, but clinical trials have not investigated its effectiveness for patients suffering from severe forms of depression and high rates of comorbidities. There is high demand for exploring and improving ...
Interesting to hear from Oded Bein about "Engage & Connect", a neuroscience-informed psychotherapy aimed to improve positive valence system functions and social reward responsivity, in late life depression
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0165178123004195
or in postpartum #depression:
https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/n4p75_v1https://osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/n4p75_v1
In the panel "Promoting psychotherapy research in underrepresented contexts and populations: Challenges and opportunities" we hear from Latin American colleagues about the Consorcio Latinoamericano de Investigación en Psicoterapia
https://www.psychotherapyresearch.org/page/CLIP-About_engl
and a forthcoming book (c July 2025):
https://www.beck-shop.de/tomicic-duarte-soto-qualitative-research-clinical-psychology-psychotherapy-latin-america/product/38941308?srsltid=AfmBOookHw0TlRh9HQF0PpvxfkFQmaa2ZMRYOxuaUTXzw6NMDqk9SqN-
#SPRKrakow2025 #PsychotherapyResearch #ClinicalPsychology #GlobalHealth
I was very happy to support my esteemed colleagues Ueli Kramer & Giovanna Esposito editing the #PsychotherapyResearch #SpecialIssue
"Therapist responsiveness in psychotherapy"
The 6 papers were published
https://www.tandfonline.com/toc/tpsr20/35/1
and we have a structured discussion at #SPRKrakow2025 👇
In a week's time #SPRKrakow2025 will be over already.
I am grateful to my colleagues for joining me for the panel
"Measuring what matters: How do we know that we do?"
#PsychotherapyResearch #Measurement #HRQOL #CoreOutcomes #DundeeUni
@paperbag1
Discussant: Michael Barkham, University of Sheffield, UK
Talks:
Constructing a measurement ontology of depression and depression related constructs
Presenter: Gary Brown, Royal Holloway University of London, UK
Jan R. Boehnke