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2025-10-13 | RESEARCH

Group Schema Therapy Equals Group CBT for Social Anxiety with Avoidant PD — and Patient Profile Doesn't Tell You Which to Pick

When two evidence-based therapies look identical in outcome, identical in attrition, and identical in mediation pathways, the clinical question stops being "which therapy" and starts being "which therapist this patient can actually access and stay with."

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2026-01-23 | RESEARCH

ACT for ASD Parents: 8 Weeks That Outlasted the Group

Parental stress in ASD does not regress to baseline on its own — and an 8-week ACT block holds for at least six months, while the mood lift fades.

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2026-03-01 | RESEARCH

Group Grief-Focused CBT Matches Individual Format in Older Adults

Grief-focused CBT in groups produces the same six-month outcomes as individual sessions in older bereaved adults — including for PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms — which means the question is no longer whether to offer groups, but how to staff them.

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2026-05-04 | RESEARCH

Synthetic Cannabinoids in Russia: A Group-Belonging Rehabilitation Model from Tomsk

In synthetic-cannabinoid dependence with paranoid schizophrenia, the addictive peer group is doing psychic work the patient cannot do alone — rehabilitation has to replace that work, not merely remove the group.

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RESEARCH
Group Schema Therapy Equals Group CBT for Social Anxiety with Avoidant PD — and Patient Profile Doesn't Tell You Which to Pick
When two evidence-based therapies look identical in outcome, identical in attrition, and identical in mediation pathways, the clinical question stops being "which therapy" and starts being "which therapist this patient can actually access and stay with."
Clinical Psychology & Psychotherapy · 2025-10-13Read
RESEARCH
ACT for ASD Parents: 8 Weeks That Outlasted the Group
Parental stress in ASD does not regress to baseline on its own — and an 8-week ACT block holds for at least six months, while the mood lift fades.
JAMA Network Open · 2026-01-23Read
RESEARCH
Group Grief-Focused CBT Matches Individual Format in Older Adults
Grief-focused CBT in groups produces the same six-month outcomes as individual sessions in older bereaved adults — including for PTSD, depression, and anxiety symptoms — which means the question is no longer whether to offer groups, but how to staff them.
JAMA Psychiatry · 2026-03-01Read
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Synthetic Cannabinoids in Russia: A Group-Belonging Rehabilitation Model from Tomsk
In synthetic-cannabinoid dependence with paranoid schizophrenia, the addictive peer group is doing psychic work the patient cannot do alone — rehabilitation has to replace that work, not merely remove the group.
Journal of Ethnicity in Substance Abuse · 2026-05-04Read
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Yoga halves opioid withdrawal time in NIMHANS inpatient trial — what JAMA Psychiatry actually published
Buprenorphine treats the receptor; yoga, in this trial, treated the autonomic nervous system the receptor cannot reach.
JAMA Psychiatry · 2026-03-01Read
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Domain-specific beats domain-general: anxiety in N≈800 high-achieving Russian adolescents
A normal GAD-7 in a high-achieving adolescent does not mean the anxiety is not there — it means you measured the wrong domain.
PsyCh Journal (Wiley) · 2026-04-01Read
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ACT and Multidisciplinary ACT for Women on Long-Term Sick Leave: 8-Year Outcomes from a Swedish RCT
Symptom relief in two years and work re-engagement in eight years are different outcomes — choose the intervention package against the time horizon you are actually being asked to influence.
BMC Public Health · 2026-05-06Read
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Bipolar II maintenance: the evidence base for lithium and lamotrigine is thinner than the guidelines suggest
Bipolar II is treated, in many practices, as if it were "BD-I lite" — but the maintenance evidence base for it has barely a tenth of BD-I's statistical mass, and our prescribing confidence should reflect that gap.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2025-04-25Read
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Family-Based CBT Beats Active Control in Paediatric OCD — But the Margin Is Smaller Than We Like to Say
ERP beats a credible psychological placebo in paediatric OCD — but by less than a Y-BOCS notch, and the families with the worst access to it should hear that honestly.
European Child & Adolescent Psychiatry · 2025-07-31Read
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One Dose of LSD for Generalised Anxiety: What the JAMA Phase 2b Actually Showed
Two doses worked, two did not — and the 92.5% rate of visual perceptual changes is not a side effect of the treatment, it is the treatment, which is exactly why outpatient pharmacotherapy framing does not apply.
JAMA · 2025-10-21Read
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One Question About Suicidality, 9.5 Years of Mortality: What a Korean National Cohort Tells Us
A self-reported "yes" to seriously considering suicide is not an event — it is a trait that predicts how a person dies for at least a decade.
Journal of Affective Disorders · 2025-10-14Read
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LPFS-BF 2.0 in chronic pain: a 12-item screener you can run in five minutes before the first session
In chronic pain, don't fight to interpret Self vs Interpersonal — the LPFS-BF 2.0 in this population is essentially one number, and that number is enough to change your treatment plan.
Scandinavian Journal of Pain · 2026-03-09Read
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FFMQ-15 in clinical samples: short, sturdy, and finally validated for mental health service users
A 3-minute, five-facet measure that holds its psychometric structure in actual mental health service users — and across two of the world's most-used languages — is one of the small infrastructural wins that quietly upgrades a practice.
Healthcare (Basel) · 2026-01-26Read
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WAI-SR + TFI Cohesiveness in telehealth groups: a minimal two-scale process kit
Cohesion is not a vibe — it is a 9-item scale with α=.90, one-week reliability of .93, and the strongest treatment-trajectory effect in this telehealth trial.
International Journal of Group Psychotherapy · 2024-03-21Read
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PBS-5: a five-item screen for non-substance addictive behaviours, anchored to ICD-11
A five-minute, ICD-11-anchored screen across all five behavioural addictions — the right resolution for a 50-minute first session.
Journal of Behavioral Addictions · 2026-03-20Read
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The ETMCQ-R: 18 Items to Know Whether Your Patient Can Actually Learn from You
High epistemic mistrust is the mechanism by which childhood adversity blocks therapeutic learning — and the ETMCQ-R gives you 18 items to locate exactly where that blockade sits before you start.
BJPsych Open · 2025-09-01Read
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NHS Talking Therapies 2024/25: 670,419 courses completed, recovery still tracks postcode
Stepped-care CBT at population scale converges on about half-recovery — anyone selling higher numbers is either creaming case-mix or counting differently.
Nuffield Trust (QualityWatch, with the Health Foundation) — analysis of NHS Digital data · 2026-04-30Read
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Korea's Third Mental Health Welfare Master Plan: a 5-year reset, by the numbers
A national mental-health plan only becomes credible when it specifies how many beds, how many workers, how many case-managed clients per worker — Korea has now done that to four decimal places.
Seoul Economic Daily (reporting Ministry of Health and Welfare announcement) · 2026-03-27Read
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95% never get the right treatment: the IOCDF OCD care-crisis report and what it means for parity in 2026
A 95% treatment-gap statistic is not an awareness problem and not a research problem — it is a referral-routing and network-adequacy problem, and it sits squarely inside what every clinician decides on a Tuesday afternoon.
International OCD Foundation (IOCDF) / Guardian Research Network / Resonance · 2025-12-09Read
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AASM 2025: when CBT-I meets a sleeping pill, the pill is the one that loses
Adding a hypnotic to CBT-I does not improve global insomnia severity, sleep continuity, or daytime mood and anxiety symptoms — six RCTs, low certainty, but the direction is consistent.
Journal of Clinical Sleep Medicine (AASM) · 2025-05-01Read
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India's Tele-MANAS at year three: 3.4 million calls, 53 cells, and the unfinished business of the treatment gap
Tele-MANAS proves the architecture works at national scale; whether it closes the treatment gap is a question outcome data, not call volume, will answer.
Organiser (analysis of MoHFW data, March 2026) · 2026-03-31Read
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Australia's Authorised Prescriber Scheme: What 134 Patients Reveal About a Real-World Psychedelic Programme
Australia's first 21 months of regulated psychedelic therapy show what the bottleneck actually is — psychiatrist and therapist time, not the molecule.
Psychedelic Alpha (2025 Year in Review) · 2026-01-16Read
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CFT Diploma 2026: Paul Gilbert's Ten-Month Pathway Into Shame, Self-Criticism, and the Forensic Edge of Compassion
Compassion is not a soft skill; in CFT it is the operationalised counter-move to a threat system that has been running the patient's life for thirty years.
Compassionate Mind Foundation (UK) · 2026-05-01Read
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BTTI 2026: Where Clinicians Actually Learn to Run ERP for OCD
ERP is a procedural skill — you cannot pick it up from a textbook, and the BTTI is the field's standard answer to that.
International OCD Foundation · 2026-04-15Read
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CIIS Psychedelic-Assisted Therapies Certificate: 2026-2027 Cohort Now Open
Treat psychedelic training as scaffolding for integration practice and trial work — not as a credential that creates a new clinical permission you do not otherwise have.
California Institute of Integral Studies (CIIS), Center for Psychedelic Therapies and Research · 2026-04-15Read
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The Bowlby Centre's Attachment Certificate: A Year of Saturdays That Pays Off
The Bowlby Centre doesn't teach about Bowlby — it teaches *from* Bowlby. The theoretical coherence of learning attachment at the institution that practises it clinically every day is the point.
The John Bowlby Centre · 2026-04-01Read

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