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....

Psychological internet interventions are effective in people suffering from depressive symptoms who do not meet criteria for depression yet. Particularly for those with at least moderate symptom severity @mathiasharrer.bsky.social @toshi-frkw.bsky.social bit.ly/4kcYMxS

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...

Published today in Nature Medicine. In one of the world’s largest RCTs of its kind (n=3,936), a smartphone app teaching 5 key cognitive-behavioral therapy skills improved subthreshold depression—and the effects lasted 6 months. www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

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 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...

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...

Starting my job search: I just finished my PhD in Clinical Psychology and am looking for opportunities to make an impact. I have expertise in meta-analyses, advanced stats, psychometrics, R, and project management. If you know of a position that might be a great fit, please feel free to reach out.

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

In "What if we wait? Using synthetic waiting lists to estimate treatment effects in routine outcome data", we demonstrated how to estimate putative between-group effects from data sets with only within-subjects measurements. Basically a g-estimation approach. www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Question for my #EvidenceSynthesis #MetaAnalysis #SystematicReview folks: I'm organizing the 2025 meeting of the Society for Research Synthesis Methods (www.srsm.org). Currently working on the call for submissions, which it has me dreaming about sessions I would love to see at the conference....

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.

Okay made a starter pack for folks into evidence synthesis, systematic review, meta-analysis. I've surely missed people, so please ping with suggestions or self-nominations. go.bsky.app/JLw77VZ

Digital interventions are attractive to increase treatment uptake in depression, but we also need to know who requires other forms of care. Here, we use meta-analytic predictive models to derive a precision treatment rule for digital stress interventions in Px with depression. bit.ly/3S9V6Sq

A highly relevant insight, especially for psychotherapy trialists 👇

New paper on five decades of depression psychotherapy research in the American Psychologist (led by Pim Cuijpers): doi.org/10.1037/amp0... We found CBT is not only by far the best-examined therapy, but that the share of CBT among all published trials is increasing with every year.

"For in psychology, there are experimental methods and conceptual confusion. The experimental method makes us think we have the means of getting rid of the problems which trouble us; but problem and method pass one another by." Great paper on W.'s mysterious remark: jhaponline.org/jhap/article...

Belated Halloween greetings from your friend trained in biostatistics.

Very nice! @mathiasharrer.bsky.social et al.'s metapsy now has a data base of PTSD studies: www.metapsy.org/database/ptsd