Travis Pashak

The Age of Acronyms "Little by little and letter by letter, acronyms obscure the essence of psychotherapy." Stephanie Foster

A therapeutic brand for every human nook and cranny is the profession chasing its own tail. Rather than collecting tools for every situation, we should focus on fundamentals that work in most situations.

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Concisely, his six suggestions for DSM-6:

1) Offer "disorder" clarity.
2) Specify disorder validity.
3) Justify diagnostic thresholds.
4) Acknowledge descriptive gaps.
5) Include dimensional approaches.
6) Free public accessibility/transparency.

::immediately adds to next week's lecture slides::

6 Suggestions for DSM-6 Making the next DSM look less like a house of mirrors

@awaisaftab.bsky.social is amazing, as usual. Loving this post.

Regarding DSM diagnostic criteria: "A best guess is fine as a starting point, but it cannot be treated as something special or sacred..." as it is basically a "pulled-out-of-the-ass threshold"

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A tool built on the stolen labor of others will not liberate you as a worker.

A tool built on the stolen ideas of others will not liberate you as a thinker.

You are not using AI; AI is using you.

Stop it.

Yup. We should have daylight savings year round.

My dept is hiring!

Specialty area flexible. Applied sub-fields like forensic or I/O psych especially appealing. But a social/personality, quant/stats psych, or other 'generalist' would also fit well.

Teaching-focused, undergrad only. Life in MI is great!

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Update! The authors got back to me and were willing to share. If it seems like a useful tool for anyone else (or there is desire for collaboration) please reach out.

So often it seems the therapeutic thing to do is get the hell out of the way while they talk.

Image shows the cover of the book “How Thin The Veil: A Memoir of 45 Days in the Traverse City State Hospital” by Jack Kerkhoff.

“After years of keeping it inside me, I had finally got it out. Perhaps I should have told it to the doctor, but it would have been difficult. Yet I could tell Suzy. Because she didn’t try to analyze it; she simply let the little boy talk.”
(Kerkhoff, 1952, p. 178)

Marcus Aurelius - Stoic Philosopher
Marcus Ohreallyus - Skeptic Philosopher

Hey Caz! I’m Travis.

Located in Michigan. Small private practice therapist on Tuesdays. Clinical psych prof the rest of my work days.

Nice to meet ya, thanks for inviting levity and connection.

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Would love to get to know therapists much more on this platform. I miss the everyday chat I used to get on X/Twitter!

I’m Caz-a private practitioner,based in London working full-time with clients first&foremost (I’m also an author). Where are you/what do you do?!

#TherapistsConnect
#therapistsky

New music this month from Motion City Soundtrack, Silverstein, Punchline, and Dance Gavin Dance.

My little emo / screamo / weirdo heart is full.

The world is a complete mess but mannn the soundtrack slaps.

Just submitted a comment and I hope you will too. Speak up to protect #PSLF!

This...

Training new clinicians in the age of behavioral treatment and managed care is very challenging and disheartening.

I very much enjoy supervising young clinicians. I appreciate their passion and enthusiasm. It is very difficult, though, because the way in which I practice often seems fundamentally

This 🧵 is long so please bear with me. It is compiles evidence in a historical timeline on how effective #COVIDVaccines are. When a pandemic ends we quickly and easily forget the tools that got us out of it. So here is my labour day gift to you prompted by this headline.

As one can imagine, I have some thoughts. Here’s a thread no one asked for:

1. SCIENCE IN THE US IS POLITICAL. No matter how much you want to ignore that fact, it is supported by taxpayer dollars and is therefore, political by nature.

2. BUT it has had bipartisan support for decades, which…

Working in higher ed has me crying pretty regularly these days

Pretty please?

Assessing Mental Disorder Causal Beliefs: A Latent Dimension Identification - Community Mental Health Journal A Many-Facet Rasch analysis was carried out with the intent of identifying a latent trait dimension characterized by mental disorders causal beliefs variables. The present research consists of two stu...

Anyone have the Mental Disorder Causal Beliefs Scale (MDCB; Mannarini & Boffo, 2013) and willing to share it? I've tried all the usual things but can't seem to get my hands on the actual items.

First report in 2013: doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Psychometrics update in 2024: dx.doi.org/10.1037/sah0...

Assessing Mental Disorder Causal Beliefs: A Latent Dimension Identification - Community Mental Health Journal A Many-Facet Rasch analysis was carried out with the intent of identifying a latent trait dimension characterized by mental disorders causal beliefs variables. The present research consists of two stu...

Anyone have the Mental Disorder Causal Beliefs Scale (MDCB; Mannarini & Boffo, 2013) and willing to share it? I've tried all the usual things but can't seem to get my hands on the actual items.

First report in 2013: doi.org/10.1007/s105...

Psychometrics update in 2024: dx.doi.org/10.1037/sah0...

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🚨🚨ACTION OF THE DAY🚨🚨
@standupforscience.bsky.social

Day 14! WE ARE LAUNCHING A CAMPAIGN TO IMPEACH AND REMOVE BOBBY “The Quack” JR.
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We will hand deliver to Congress in Sept!

#31doa #imoeachthequack
#signandshare

Bring back the Chevy Astro van.

AWD, screens and current tech, lotsa storage, vintage 80s color tones.

Every millennial parent currently driving a Pacifica, Sienna, or Odyssey would make the switch in a heartbeat. For nostalgia alone perhaps, but also because it was a solid vehicle.

Mental Health and Meaning Psychology and the Good Life · Episode

Delighted to join my pal Joe Weaver on his teaching podcast "Psychology and the Good Life" this week!

We explore existential approaches to clinical psychology, what mental health really means, and of course how to pursue the 'good life.'

Have a listen here: open.spotify.com/episode/1yhW...

Which psych orgs have early career awards, bonus points if focused on civic service?

We need to flood them with nominations for @cdelawalla.bsky.social given all the amazing work she’s doing in @standupforscience.bsky.social.

Y’all. She’s still in school. We gotta lift her up.

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yelling as requested

Hey #ClinicalPsych people…If you have even an ounce of bandwidth to spare and a desire to ~do something~, I’ve got an idea.

Comment/DM/yell in my general direction!

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Experimentology is out today!!! A group of us wrote a free online textbook for experimental methods, available at experimentology.io - the idea was to integrate open science into all aspects of the experimental workflow from planning to design, analysis, and writing.

Here is my weekly pep-talk covering:

1. Why you feel so tired/overwhelmed/discouraged/sad about ~everything~ and
2. What you can DO to feel better.

Read this, internalize it, share it with your friends. We are in this together and we are NOT the minority.

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