Joel Lewin

Our meta-ethnography was just published. It looks at clinician experiences of identity change when implementing or training in Open Dialogue. There were lots of rich qualitative studies to include, which made the review such a pleasure to conduct www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Psychology needs a… heterogeneity revolution | BPS Audrey Linden argues we should drop the assumption that interventions will have a single, underlying effect size.

“What if the effects that underlie so much of our understanding and practice are not so predictable, leading to interventions that are ineffective, or even harmful to some?”

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Thanks for the SCED package!

You can find it here github.com/ianhussey/SCED

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I used @ianhussey.mmmdata.io's SCED package for this CBT for tinnitus SCED. Highly recommend it. User friendly, solid visualisation and has some nice non-parametric tests. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/....

Disorder Relevant or Disorder Specific: Measuring Fear of Losing Control in Relation To the Experience of Anxiety and Related Issues - Cognitive Therapy and Research Objectives Research suggests fear of losing control may play a role in multiple anxiety disorders. However, the question of disorder specificity versus disorder relevance has not been examined in fear...

Fear of losing control research is out. Thank you to everyone who participated and made it possible, and to supervisors & co-authors @psalkovskis.bsky.social, Adam Radomsky and Victoria Edwards link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Failure to study languages ‘damages Britain’s reputation’ The former schools minister says it may be time to return to make the study of a foreign language compulsory at GCSE

Studying languages gives young people so much more than just language skills. The cultural curiosity is invaluable.
www.thetimes.com/article/5332...

(1/6) New pre-print alert! 🤩🚨

We provide new evidence for contra-hedonic functions of NSSI & ED behaviors in adolescents.

See 🧵 for a brief summary 👇
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Jack Lowden Joins Apple TV+’s Berlin Noir Series - TVDRAMA Apple TV+ has cast Jack Lowden (Slow Horses, Dunkirk) in the lead role of its new untitled drama based on Metropolis, part of Philip Kerr’s best-selling Berlin Noir book series.

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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library? An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.

“Maya Angelou is out but ‘Mein Kampf’ stays”

www.nytimes.com/2025/04/11/u...

Efficacy and safety profile of oral creatine monohydrate in add-on to cognitive-behavioural therapy in depression: An 8-week pilot, double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled feasibility and explora... Pre-clinical and clinical evidence proposes that creatine monohydrate, an affordable nutraceutical, could be a useful adjunct to conventional antidepressant treatments. In this pilot feasibility and e...

Creatine + CBT!? Sending all those brain training metaphors into overdrive pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/39488067/

Accessibility and public availability of treatment protocols and manuals for evidence-based psychological interventions for severe mental disorders: A survey of randomized trials Background: Psychological interventions are developed and tested as packages of multiple components. Identifying active ingredients requires access to detailed intervention descriptions, such as from ...

Yes, I am one of those horrible people who submit during the season. New preprint, 1st paper from my #ERCStG DECOMPOSE
www.medrxiv.org/content/10.1...
The goals of DECOMPOSE are break-down psychological interventions into components, integrate these in a taxonomy and evaluate incremental efficacy

The last government made a moralistic choice to let hundreds/thousands of people die despite evidence accumulating internationally that drug consumption rooms save lives.

UK to open its first safe drug consumption room amid soaring deaths The Thistle in Glasgow aims to save lives by providing a supervised environment in ‘Europe’s drug deaths capital’

This is great news, but a tragedy it took so long. So many more lives could have been saved.

www.theguardian.com/society/2024...

This from Andrew Scott captures it so nicely

Best films of 2024 in the UK: No 1 – All of Us Strangers Andrew Haigh’s devastating metaphysical drama follows a lonely gay writer as he interacts with the ghosts of his parents

I can’t argue with this. Such a beautiful film www.theguardian.com/film/2024/dec/20/best-films-of-2024-in-the-uk-no-1-all-of-us-strangers

I love the way family therapies have drawn on Bakhtin. Polyphony is such a vivid way to conceptualise making space for all voices, both between and within individuals

This book offers a framework for bringing together wide ranging systemic theories into a manageable formulation

This book opened my eyes to just how fun and creative therapy can be. The ‘wonderfulness interview’ is such a great way to set an engaging, strengths-based frame with children

Bateson’s mind blew my mind. He roams so creatively across different planes of life and theory, from crustaceans to Balinese culture. His thinking about associate learning is fascinating too

I just submitted the last systemic family therapy intermediate assignment. It’s been invigorating to dive into such a different way of thinking about therapy and mental health. And I’ve gorged on some amazing books along the way. Some of my favourites…

Literally just as I read this I heard one roaring in the distance. There must be some kind of pleasure to it but it’s a pleasure I just don’t get