@grahamcldavey.bsky.social
Emeritus Prof of Psychology at Uni of Sussex - posting stuff on mental health, psychology, clinical research, and the occasional rant about almost anything
I’m now working on a new 4th Edition of my textbook Psychopathology: Research, Assessment and Treatment in Clinical Psychology
If you’ve used the book as a teacher, student or clin psych please let me have your feedback
Any new topics?
Thanks to all of you who supported the book over the years
Had coffee and cake at a local cafe this morning then Sigmund Freud appeared on my cappuccino 😮 - the id be with you 😁
13.10.2025 18:36 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Spotted this today - why can’t they just put a bollard in front of it 🤔
29.08.2025 17:41 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
"Treating disgust in obsessive-compulsive disorder - Results support the view that ERP can be tailored to treat disgust symptoms and highlight the relevance of evaluative conditioning, inhibitory learning, and CBT"
ERPhttps://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2211364925000363
"Psychotherapy practitioners are curiously complacent about the rapid emergence of artificial intelligence competition. Their passivity reflects ignorance about the power of chatbots, denial of their likely impact and arrogance regarding their capacities"
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"We describe 10 generic competences that can support therapists to deliver the strongest possible outcomes in CBT across different forms of psychopathology"
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"The mainstream strategy [in developing new psychiatric diagnoses] has been conservative and iterative, retaining current nosology until something better emerges. However, this has led to stagnation. "
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"AI tools appeared to be accurate in detecting, classifying, and predicting the risk of mental health conditions as well as predicting treatment response "
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Humans only evolved language once
Why?
Sadly, probably so they could lie to each other more effectively
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"The interplay between intolerance of uncertainty (IU) and OCD symptoms depends on the degree to which people with OCD exhibit a fear of losing control and engage in transdiagnostic response styles (e.g., depressive rumination)"
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Something we've always suspected - the fear factor!
Negative affect predicts populist attitudes in vote shares at elections in Europe, Brexit voting in the 2016 U.K. referendum, & vote shares for Donald Trump in the 2016 and 2020 U.S. presidential elections
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Five decades of research on psychological treatments of depression: A historical and meta-analytic overview
"Cognitive behavior therapy (CBT) is by far the best examined type of therapy (52%), but not necessarily more effective than other therapies"
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"When people feel bad, how much effort should they invest to make themselves feel better? Should they try harder, or might this even make matters worse? "
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This is a very sad story - academics get promoted up the management chain but are often never good senior managers - we can probably expect more stories like this
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"The global pooled prevalence estimate for Complex PTSD was 6.2% - prevalence is highest in clinical, domestic and/or sexual abuse, and military samples"
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"Inflammation appears to play a significant role in the pathophysiology of suicidal behavior, offering promising avenues for biomarker development and novel therapeutic strategies"
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Psychotherapies for adults with complex presentations of PTSD: a clinical guideline and five systematic reviews with meta-analyses
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Thousands of UK students caught cheating using AI
Is acquired knowledge and critical thinking an HE thing of the past? More unseen exams?
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"High rates of trauma exist in those with eating disorders"
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"Early onset, depression as the polarity of the first mood episode, lifetime suicide attempts, comorbid anxiety and alcohol use disorders, and family history of bipolar disorder were associated with significantly longer undiagnosed or untreated bipolar disorder"
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"The studies suggest that ECT causes autobiographical memory loss in patients with depression. Results also suggest that lost memories are not regained."
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"CBT is an effective and acceptable treatment for sleep problems in people with and at risk of psychosis"
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Remembering my parents Ray and Betty on the anniversary of VE Day - Both made their own personal contributions to winning the war - And let’s not forget why it was fought - to preserve democracy, freedom and justice for ALL people
08.05.2025 18:23 — 👍 3 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
I’m sure Donald Trump will have something totally inappropriate to say about an American becoming the new pope ☹️
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"Small to large effect sizes were found for positive, negative, and affective symptoms. "
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"Using models spanning over 18 years, associations between religious-service attendance and mental health were mostly nonsignificant"
"The results suggest a need to question the assumption that religious-service attendance provides mental health benefits"
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"Clinically significant change analysis
showed that 57% to 77% of participants were categorised as recovered from GAD 2 to 8 years post-CBT"
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"Our data provide little evidence that relapse has a detrimental effect in the long term in people with schizophrenia and recurrent psychosis."
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