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Matching patients to treatments: Professor Jaime Delgadillo delivers Inaugural Lecture “Advances in personalised and precision psychotherapy” | King's College London On Tuesday 16 September 2025, Professor Jaime Delgadillo delivered his Inaugural Lecture as Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience.

"Different people respond differently to therapy."

Professor Jaime Delgadillo described his research into personalised treatment approaches at his inaugural lecture at the IoPPN last week. #Psychology #ScienceAtKings

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At the EABCT 2025, the Hannah Murray Award for tCBT Practitioner Paper of the Year was presented to Katherine Wakelin for 'Cognitive therapy for moral injury in post-traumatic stress disorder: integrating religious beliefs and practices'

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#TheMostInterestingThinginMentalHealth: #Insomnia is major factor contributing to many mental health problems. @ProfEspie University of Oxford
@ox.ac.uk gives top tips for clinicians at the European CBT Conference
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(PDF) Understanding Symptom Profiles of Depression with the PHQ-9 in a Community Sample Using Network Analysis PDF | Background Depression is one of the most prevalent mental health conditions in the world. However, the heterogeneity of depression has presented... | Find, read and cite all the research you nee...

Jaime Delgadillo (not on Bluesky) and colleagues recently pursued a similar approach with a comparable outcome: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

Well done, Aaron. The whole notion that the sheer number of possible combinations meant something was inherently wrong was always nonsense and you have shown why.

Illusory posttraumatic growth is common, but genuine posttraumatic growth is rare: A critical review and suggestions for a path forward Over the last 2.5 decades, trauma researchers have increasingly become interested in posttraumatic growth (PTG) – the concept that some people experie…

The story of "posttraumatic growth" in a nutshell. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti....

Wow. Recognisable by this Great lakes native

turing.ac.uk using a Cloudflare real human verification check box test?!

Really, Alan Turing Institute?

Spitalfields and Brick Lane markets and surrounding area or Greenwich market, park, and observatory. Walk Regents canal from Hackney to Islington.

Or leverage this and that. Or my favorite "unleash". As if there is pent up potential just waiting to burst out. But I mainly want more walking the walk instead of endlessly talking endless talks. Or anything meta. Do the flipping particular. The meta will take care of itself.

How it's better to just go ahead and solve the damn problem and show how it's done rather than endlessly speculate and pontificate at a metalevel and issue "calls" in high impact journals.

Opinion | This Is How Universities Can Escape Trump’s Trap, if They Dare (Gift Article) It’s been tried in other countries facing authoritarian crackdowns. It works.

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Chris Murphy 🟧 on X: "11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons. But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs. The people still have the power." / X 11/ The tariffs aren’t economic policy. They are political weapons. But as long as we see this clearly, we can stop him. Public mobilization is working. Today, a few Republicans joined Democrats to vote against one set of tariffs. The people still have the power.

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Brain disorders? Not really: Why network structures block reductionism in psychopathology research - PubMed In the past decades, reductionism has dominated both research directions and funding policies in clinical psychology and psychiatry. The intense search for the biological basis of mental disorders, ho...

See also pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29361992/

But if the causal flow is from non symptom to symptom, organizing everything around symptoms is a huge fundamental error

In case this is useful eprints.ncrm.ac.uk/id/eprint/22...

Duh.

Abstract Loneliness is a widespread issue routinely targeted by the media and public health campaigns. We propose that these efforts, though well-intentioned, may exacerbate this problem by negatively influencing a potential driver of loneliness: people’s beliefs about being alone. Supporting this thesis, we show that contemporary U.S. news articles are 10 times more likely to describe being alone as harmful than beneficial (Study 1, N = 144 articles) and that exposure to such articles causally impacts people’s beliefs about being alone (Study 2, N = 456). Further, a 2-week experience-sampling study (Study 3, N = 161) demonstrates that people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone. Finally, multi-national studies demonstrate the generalizability of these results across nine countries spanning six continents (Studies 4 and 5, N = 2930). Together, these findings reveal the critical role of beliefs about being alone in shaping loneliness.

Alone but not Lonely!

New study finds "people with negative beliefs about being alone experience a steep increase in loneliness after spending time alone in daily life, whereas those with positive beliefs feel less lonely after spending time alone."

Open Access: doi.org/10.1038/s414...

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In an email the authors summarised "A key finding from this work is that there is limited statistical evidence to support the presence or absence of most edges in published networks. Approximately 80% of the edges we analyzed lack robust statistical support from the data."
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I keep reading and hearing that political leaders and analysts should understand Trump’s behaviour as transactional. The word you’re looking for is ‘corrupt’.

The idea that we can just slice up therapies into components because that's the way our brains would prefer to understand them is misguided. "Active ingredients", eh? These aren't headache remedies.

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If we want to be consistent in using precise language, we can also say "is mostly due to factors other than treatment as far as can be shown by current methods".

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I’d love to connect with people working in #globalmentalhealth - please RT so I can make new friends 😀