Pim Cuijpers

Has the time come to stop using control groups in trials of psychosocial interventions? Click on the article title to read more.

All control conditions in randomized trials of psychological treatment have serious problems. Maybe we should stop using them at some point? Read my new open access paper in World Psychiatry
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E138 What Does Science Reveal About Therapy? (w/ Prof. Pim Cuijpers) - The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy Pim Cuijpers. Ph.D. is professor emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Vrije Universiteit Amste...

Are you interested in what science says about the effects of therapy? Listen to the interview that Dr. Anya Borissova had with me on The Thinking Mind Podcast

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Psychotherapists have claimed for >100 years that they provide/adjust interventions in view of the client's characteristics -- but all based on their personal experiences and opinions. Here we have the first-ever system to do so based on evidence.

Stop het leed in Gaza Het sentiment onder de Nederlandse burgers heeft de politiek en het politieke handelen al lang en breed ingehaald. Het gebrek aan concrete actie om het leed nu te stoppen maakt de Nederlander machtelo...

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/sp...

The strengths and limitations of CBT across mental health conditions CBT is a cornerstone of mental health care, but how well does it work across disorders? New meta-analysis offers some answers and raises new questions.

Diving into how #CBT tackles a wide range of mental health conditions in my new blog, reviewing @pimcuijpers.bsky.social and co new meta-analysis. If you care about evidence-based therapy and when to explore options beyond the basics, check it out on @thementalelf.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/DbNCq8k ☀️

None. There is no association between the effects of therapies and the number of sessions. See Ciharova 2024

Led by the Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, Gin Mahli, we wrote an Editorial about recent changes to US research funding, the far-reaching consequences of this for science, and the importance to resist this.
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The MAHA Report Has Been Updated With Fresh Errors One psychologist who is newly cited in the report said the updated reference misconstrues his research.

The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly
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No innovation in the treatment of depression will be a ’silver bullet’ that will dramatically change the outcomes. Only together can innovations really improve outcomes. Read our new paper in the Br J Psychiatry. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social and @toshi-frkw.bsky.social
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"Five decades of research on psychological treatments of depression: A historical and meta-analytic overview"—free-to-read article by @pimcuijpers.bsky.social, @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social, Marketa Ciharova, & Eirini Karyotaki bit.ly/437n7OT #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Delivery formats of cognitive behavior therapy in adults with eating disorders: a network meta-analysis Although CBT has been found to be effective in the treatment of eating disorders, it is not clear if there are differences between treatment formats. We conducted a network meta-analysis (NMA) of r...

Our new network meta-analysis of treatment formats in CBT for eating disorders found no significant difference between individual, group, guided self-help and unguided self, and all were effective. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social and others
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news.arizona.edu/news/new-pre... Out today - our protocol paper describing an ENORMOUS effort led by Ellen Driessen leveraging all available RCT data from depression trials comparing ADM/CT/BA/IPT/PDT (>60 studies, nearing 10K patients) to develop precision treatment selection decision support tools

The master protocol design, involving four 2x2 factorial trials, and the digital platform contributed to the successful completion of this RESiLIENT trial. Scalable. Affordable. Global. @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @alexiswhitton.bsky.social @masasakata.bsky.social

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults This unified series of meta-analyses examines the effect sizes of cognitive behavior therapy for many mental and eating disorders on symptoms of the respective disorders using uniform methodologies fo...

Pim Cuijpers and the team has published a comprehensive meta-analysis of CBT for 12 mental disorders, from psychosis to depression to specific phobia. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults Interview with Pim Cuijpers, PhD, author of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults: A Unified Series of Meta-Analyses. Hosted by John Torous, MD

Listen to the podcast in which I discuss the most important findings of our meta-analysis of CBT for 11 mental disorders, that was just published in JAMA Psychiatry
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Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults This unified series of meta-analyses examines the effect sizes of cognitive behavior therapy for many mental and eating disorders on symptoms of the respective disorders using uniform methodologies fo...

Today our new unified series of meta-analyses of CBT for 11 mental disorders was published in JAMA Psychiatry. Another nice example of a 'next level' meta-analysis of the Metapsy initiative. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social, and many others
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Our historical and meta-analytic overview of 562 RCTs on psychotherapies for depression was just published in the April Issue of the American Psychologist. The evidence that therapies are effective is strong and growing every year.

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Don’t miss the webinar I will give on prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents on May 22nd

Psychologie: Das hilft wirklich gegen Depressionen Psychotherapie oder Medikamente? Tiefenpsychologie oder Verhaltenstherapie? Seit 17 Jahren erforscht Pim Cuijpers, wie Menschen Depressionen überwinden.

Today the well-respected German journal “Die Zeit” published an extensive interview with me about psychotherapies for depression. If you can read German and want to know what the best therapy is, long-term effects and much more, you should certainly read it
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Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents Depression in children and adolescents is a major public health problem. Prevention and treatment can help reduce the disease burden of depression. Pim Cuijpers gives an overview of the research on pr...

Prevention & treatment of depression in children and adolescents with @pimcuijpers.bsky.social

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Understand...
... the effects of prevention of depression in youth
... how effective treatments are
... the research agenda for how to improve prevention and treatment

A Special Issue on Prevention of depression was just published in the April issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. I had the honor of editing this issue together with Tracy Gladstone and Mike Silverstein from Brown University. See the Introduction here
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Our new paper on self-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression can be read open-access in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences!

Here is a short summary of our findings🧵
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You can now register for the webinar on “Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents” that I will be giving on Thursday 22 May, hosted by #ACAMH. Don’t miss it!
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What to Do If Therapy Isn’t Working as Well as You’d Hoped George, a 22-year-old who chose to use a pseudonym, says that he was first forced to see a therapist as a child and has seen numerous different | SUCCESS

What to do when therapy is not working? Eden Arielle Gordon wrote an article in Success Magazine about this, citing me and my work
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Gevonden (uhh op Facebook, excuus):

Will AI replace therapists? As more users turn to ChatGPT for emotional support, experts weigh its potential to reshape mental health care.

Will AI replace therapists? Newsweek asked experts, including me, about their opinion. Spoiler alert: no, it will not, but it will change mental health care.
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Just published in the American Psychologist: “How to Improve Outcomes of Psychological Treatment of Depression: Lessons From “Next-Level” Meta-Analytic Research”. This was published in association with the 2024 Award that I received from the APA:
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