PSYREFLECT

Issue #35

May 4, 2026

#1Research

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.

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#2Research

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.

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#3Tool

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.

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#4Industry

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.

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#5Industry

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.

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#6Resource

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.

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