Work stress is real. But what if workplaces could actually help us build resilience? A new review shows that Acceptance & Commitment Therapy (#ACT) programs at work can boost key skills. Read the full study: buff.ly/d1DDbRv #ACBS #JCBS #WorkplaceWellness #ACTTherapy #PsychologicalFlexibility

Just a reminder for anyone interested in ACT that the UK conference is happening in Manchester on 14-16 November. Everyone form newbies to Professors is always made very welcome at these wonderful events. One, two, or three day tickets are available from acbsukandireland.com/acbs-chapter...

📢 Mothers & Daughters: stories of growth, connection & resistance in the face of domestic violence & abuse This moving qualitative study explores the joint stories of mothers & daughters who’ve experienced abuse; revealing how relationships can both hurt & heal. 🧵 THREAD #DomesticAbuse

Leaving a high-control religious group can be one of the most painful experiences anyone can face. That's where our service #FaithtoFaithless comes in. We help people leaving high-control religious groups. Our beautiful animation – launching today – brings these deeply personal stories to life. 🧵

Have you ever thought about what it would really take for humans to interact with a conscious species that isn’t… human? Steven C. Hayes explores how we might need to expand our thinking, challenge our assumptions, & develop a new kind of psychological flexibility. zurl.co/7WS2c #ACBS

New podcast! In this episode, Steph Curnow is joined by Kerry Young to discuss the paper "How to Treat Someone Suffering with PTSD Following Rape in Adulthood" sites.libsyn.com/536037/site/... Full free paper at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Latest episode of our podcast "2 Old Psychologists Talking about Stuff". This time, @thinkpsychol.bsky.social & I chew over the nature & psychology of being a fan of.. well, anything. The highs, the lows, the dark side. Plus added mayonnaise and Pope content. 2oldpsych.alitu.com/1?order=newest

ACT for £10 - a fabulous learning experience which is recorded. This will raise money to fund conference tickets for students and people on low income. Grab your ticket here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/act410-exp... @riopsy.bsky.social @thinkpsychol.bsky.social @duncanjee.bsky.social

More news soon! The ACBS UKROI Chapter is having a Conference in 2025. Our theme is - POLLINATION: Innovation Through Connection. Dates - 14 to 16 November 2025 Venue - Manchester Hyatt Regency Hotel Please hold the dates and spread the news!

Tottenham Hotspur being in the Champions League is kinda like Captain Underpants being in the Avengers.

Culturally adapted CBT may lead to recovery from postnatal depression in British South Asian women buff.ly/PkboGGm #PostnatalDepression #SouthAsian #PerinatalMentalHealth #CBT #RCT #ROSHNI2 🧵 THREAD

Coffee or tea? Sun or shade? A simple choice, but is it actually a choice at all? What if that apparent freedom of decision making is just an illusion? Listen to @thinkpsychol.bsky.social and my discussion of just that. & also whether football is any good... 2oldpsych.alitu.com/1?order=newe...

Great to have co-chaired @babcp.com Spring Conference last week with @drjk.bsky.social at Kings College London. Brilliant keynotes from Lance McCracken, Janet Feigenbaum, Pamela Jacobsen & Mary Welford. First in person Spring Conference for 6 years - great to have it back! @babcpevents.bsky.social

New review article about Acceptance & Commitment Therapy for psychosis, for a special issue of PCNA. Co-authored by Daniel Simsion at @latrobeuni.bsky.social www.psych.theclinics.com/article/S019... @myacbs.bsky.social

Probiotics for bipolar disorder and schizophrenia buff.ly/7oIc3Xl Mary Butler explores a recent randomised controlled trial of probiotic formulations for patients with bipolar disorder or schizophrenia spectrum disorder.

Curious about how to handle stress, overthinking or self-doubt more effectively? Join me for a FREE Introductory Session on: buytickets.at/rossmcintosh... 📅 Thursday 24 April at 17:00 BST to explore the science-backed skills behind:

Yes, because what's holding the US back from greatness is our lack of "wood independence". 🙄 Logging these >100 year old trees will be disastrous for climate.

my website for searching all SAGE Covid-related documents is now complete: sagesearch.info Contains over 900 documents from Jan 2020 to Feb 2022, filterable by document type, categories covered and date. There are AI-generated summaries of every doc. You can also free-text search summaries

Taxing wealth is better than a wealth tax eastangliabylines.co.uk/business/eco... An offering from me….

What a great post. And yes same here. The RS is dead to me and unless they can extend review deadlines to a time in the future when Elon is no longer an FRS, no more reviews.

Which exercise interventions treat depression most effectively? A systematic review and network meta-analysis buff.ly/494e8rO #Depression #Exercise #Research #Walking #Jogging #StrengthTraining #Yoga #TaiChi #Dancing #NationalWalkingDay 🧵 THREAD

Transdiagnostic interventions that cut across traditional diagnostic boundaries of support may ease some of the growing burden on statutory services, which in turn may increase prompt access to mental healthcare.

With one week to go, there are still spaces to join us for this excellent line up of speakers at the BABCP Spring conference in London 8/9th April babcp.com/Spring-Confe...

Mine and Joe Oliver’s introductory ACT textbook ‘Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: 100 Key Points and Techniques’ has a second edition published today. Revised, updated, and about 20% bigger. Thanks to everyone who supported us and bought the first one. You made this possible. 🙏

This article really resonates what has happened to our Universities? inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

Diagnostic overshadowing in PTSD & autism: what do we know about trauma in ASD? buff.ly/0c0Hz5V Sofiia Karnatska blogs a systematic review of PTSD in autistic individuals, which provides some useful insights about effective assessment & treatment of #PTSD in #Autism. 🧵 THREAD

So it turns out that Meta, pirated millions of books and research papers, including some of mine, to train its AI assistant. If you’ve ever written a book, a chapter, or a research paper you can search the illegal LibGen database in the article below to see if they stole from you too.

New in JMIR: Effectiveness of an Internet-Based Acceptance and Commitment Therapy Intervention for Reducing #Psychological Distress in #HealthCare Professionals: #RCT #ClinicalTrial

This is an interesting article about happines. As a now 60-year-old ‘elder’, and practitioner of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy (ACT), I’ve repeatedly witnessed how the relentless pursuit of happiness is never ending, as it is the wrong strategy. bigthink.com/neuropsych/t...

tCBT New Paper: Developing a scale to measure dissociation between self-states (the Dissociation-Integration of Self States Scale, D-ISS Scale) Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Time to ACT for insomnia? New trial finds possible alternative to CBTi www.nationalelfservice.net?p=209665 Nicholas Donnelly considers a recent Brazilian randomised controlled trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for insomnia. #Insomnia #ACT #CBTi

The new episode of our podcast sees @riopsy.bsky.social take an Acceptance & Commitment Therapy perpective on death, grief, loss, and the experience of working with people at the end of their life. In support of Winston’s Wish for Podcasthon 2025. Find it here: 2oldpsych.alitu.com/episode/26bb...

Tell me you don't understand how money works without telling me you don't understand how money works.

Latest on Health Anxiety and OCD treatment in blended format; new article from Laura Johnsen and others doi.org/10.1017/S135...

BCP New FirstView paper : Lost connection? Comparing group cohesion and treatment outcomes between videoconference and in-person cognitive behavioural group therapy for social anxiety disorder and other anxiety disorders Full free text at www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

tCBT New Special Issue Announcement: Low intensity but high impact: Innovating CBT across contexts and the life span Guest Editors: Amy Blakemore, Paul Farrand, Catherine Gallop & Patrick Raue buff.ly/UOr37nc Please share widely!

The Pentagon has abruptly scrapped its entire social science research program. The decision “is short-sighted and harmful to U.S. national security,” @jaylyall.bsky.social told me. It “suggests they don’t care about better understanding threats the U.S. faces,” says @busbyj2.bsky.social.

Wait the crazy religion they made up for Conclave is actually real???

Why'd we organize @standupforscience.bsky.social ? Check it out below in @naturehumbehav.bsky.social @cdelawalla.bsky.social @samschuelstein.bsky.social @emmalovesscience.bsky.social @leslie-bern.bsky.social www.nature.com/articles/s41...

Great to see in the post this morning our article on Relational Frame Theory in educational contexts! #RFT #edpsychs #DNAV #acceptanceandcommitmenttherapy

Working on the edge: the therapeutic alliance in suicide prevention buff.ly/CY9rTDw Laura Melzer on a review of client and therapist perspectives about therapeutic alliance in the context of psychotherapy for suicidal feelings. #TherapeuticAlliance #Psychotherapy #SuicidePrevention 🧵 THREAD

Acceptance and Commitment Therapy is a proposed intervention after milder head injury. A qualitative study of 23/27 people in a trial found two major themes: "1) attacking the concussion from a different direction and 2) positive impact on recovery". doi.org/10.1371/jour... It should improve therapy

Effectiveness of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy on Reducing Depression and Anxiety in Older Adults: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

Investigating the delivery of an acceptance and commitment therapy (ACT) smartphone app intervention on symptomology in adult IBS patients: a feasibility study. doi.org/10.1016/j.jc...

We’re back for season two of ‘Two Old Psychologists Talking About Stuff’! @riopsy.bsky.social and I catch up with recent developments in world politics. We explore the psychological conditions that play a role and consider the consequences. 2oldpsych.alitu.com/episode/f7dd...

Party drug MDMA may have protected survivors of Nova attack from trauma, study suggests www.bbc.com/news/article...

The new episode of mine and Dr Ray Owen's podcast 'Two Old Psychologists Talking About Stuff' is out now. We reflect on the influence of psychology in life, myths and misconceptions about psychologists, and what makes the field eternally fascinating. 2oldpsychs.alitu.com