All control conditions in randomized trials of psychological treatment have serious problems. Maybe we should stop using them at some point? Read my new open access paper in World Psychiatry doi.org/DOI:10.1002/...

Are you interested in what science says about the effects of therapy? Listen to the interview that Dr. Anya Borissova had with me on The Thinking Mind Podcast thinkingmindpodcast.buzzsprout.com/277019/episo...

Psychotherapists have claimed for >100 years that they provide/adjust interventions in view of the client's characteristics -- but all based on their personal experiences and opinions. Here we have the first-ever system to do so based on evidence.

Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/sp...

Diving into how #CBT tackles a wide range of mental health conditions in my new blog, reviewing @pimcuijpers.bsky.social and co new meta-analysis. If you care about evidence-based therapy and when to explore options beyond the basics, check it out on @thementalelf.bsky.social ➡️ buff.ly/DbNCq8k ☀️

Led by the Editor of the British Journal of Psychiatry, Gin Mahli, we wrote an Editorial about recent changes to US research funding, the far-reaching consequences of this for science, and the importance to resist this. doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly www.notus.org/health-scien...

No innovation in the treatment of depression will be a ’silver bullet’ that will dramatically change the outcomes. Only together can innovations really improve outcomes. Read our new paper in the Br J Psychiatry. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social and @toshi-frkw.bsky.social doi.org/10.1192/bjp....

"Five decades of research on psychological treatments of depression: A historical and meta-analytic overview"—free-to-read article by @pimcuijpers.bsky.social, @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social, Marketa Ciharova, & Eirini Karyotaki bit.ly/437n7OT #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek

Our new network meta-analysis of treatment formats in CBT for eating disorders found no significant difference between individual, group, guided self-help and unguided self, and all were effective. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social and others doi.org/10.1080/1650...

news.arizona.edu/news/new-pre... Out today - our protocol paper describing an ENORMOUS effort led by Ellen Driessen leveraging all available RCT data from depression trials comparing ADM/CT/BA/IPT/PDT (>60 studies, nearing 10K patients) to develop precision treatment selection decision support tools

The master protocol design, involving four 2x2 factorial trials, and the digital platform contributed to the successful completion of this RESiLIENT trial. Scalable. Affordable. Global. @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @alexiswhitton.bsky.social @masasakata.bsky.social

Pim Cuijpers and the team has published a comprehensive meta-analysis of CBT for 12 mental disorders, from psychosis to depression to specific phobia. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam... @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @mathiasharrer.bsky.social @claramiguel.bsky.social

Listen to the podcast in which I discuss the most important findings of our meta-analysis of CBT for 11 mental disorders, that was just published in JAMA Psychiatry edhub.ama-assn.org/jn-learning/...

Today our new unified series of meta-analyses of CBT for 11 mental disorders was published in JAMA Psychiatry. Another nice example of a 'next level' meta-analysis of the Metapsy initiative. With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social, @claramiguel.bsky.social, and many others jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

Our historical and meta-analytic overview of 562 RCTs on psychotherapies for depression was just published in the April Issue of the American Psychologist. The evidence that therapies are effective is strong and growing every year. www.americanpsychologist-digital.org/americanpsyc...

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Don’t miss the webinar I will give on prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents on May 22nd

Today the well-respected German journal “Die Zeit” published an extensive interview with me about psychotherapies for depression. If you can read German and want to know what the best therapy is, long-term effects and much more, you should certainly read it www.zeit.de/2025/13/psyc...

Prevention & treatment of depression in children and adolescents with @pimcuijpers.bsky.social www.acamh.org/event/preven... Understand... ... the effects of prevention of depression in youth ... how effective treatments are ... the research agenda for how to improve prevention and treatment

A Special Issue on Prevention of depression was just published in the April issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. I had the honor of editing this issue together with Tracy Gladstone and Mike Silverstein from Brown University. See the Introduction here doi.org/10.1037/ccp0...

Our new paper on self-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression can be read open-access in Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences! Here is a short summary of our findings🧵 www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

You can now register for the webinar on “Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents” that I will be giving on Thursday 22 May, hosted by #ACAMH. Don’t miss it! www.acamh.org/event/preven...

What to do when therapy is not working? Eden Arielle Gordon wrote an article in Success Magazine about this, citing me and my work www.success.com/what-if-ther...

Gevonden (uhh op Facebook, excuus):

Will AI replace therapists? Newsweek asked experts, including me, about their opinion. Spoiler alert: no, it will not, but it will change mental health care. www.newsweek.com/will-ai-repl...

Just published in the American Psychologist: “How to Improve Outcomes of Psychological Treatment of Depression: Lessons From “Next-Level” Meta-Analytic Research”. This was published in association with the 2024 Award that I received from the APA: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...

Interesting new read by @pimcuijpers.bsky.social in Current Directions in Psych Science @psychscience.bsky.social. I don't read enough about different ways of thinking through strategies for prevention. Excited to try to fit these concepts in a course soon journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

One could say that the research field on prevention of depression is stuck. Interested in this field and in solutions how to continue? Read my new open access paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Just wanted to let everyone know that the one and only Pim Cuijpers and Toshi Furukawa are now on Bluesky as well! :) @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @toshi-frkw.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #psychiatry #statssky #psychsky

Read our new article just published in The Lancet Psychiatry. Thanks to everyone involved in the IPD-PrevDep Consortium \w Claudia Buntrock, @pimcuijpers.bsky.social, @toshi-frkw.bsky.social, and so many more.

Depression is preventable. Our individual participant data meta-analysis based on >7000 participants proved that psychological interventions reduce the incidence of depression within a year from 10% to 6%. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...