PSYREFLECT

Issue #36

May 7, 2026

#1Research

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.

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#2Research

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.

opioid use disorderyogaautonomic regulationNIMHANS
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#3Tool

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.

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#4Research

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.

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#5Industry

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.

koreamental health policydeinstitutionalisationworkforce crisis
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#6Resource

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.

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