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Simon Blackwell

@blackwellse.bsky.social

Post-doctoral researcher in clinical psychology at the University of Göttingen, focussing on positive mental imagery and translational research methods. All tweets are in a personal capacity. He/him. More info: http://tinyurl.com/sebtrace

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Simon Blackwell@blackwellse.bsky.social · last mo.

I just got the notification that the 5. German Psychotherapy Congress recorded content is now available for viewing online - so if you were there but missed my talk (there were some other great sessions on at the time), you can catch up via the recording now! #DPK2026 @dpk-kongress.bsky.social

Simon Blackwell@blackwellse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

What a privilege to present a "State of the Art" talk "Accelerating the Development of Psychological Interventions" just now at the German Psychotherapy Conference! Thank you very much to the organisers for inviting me, and the audience for their great questions! #DPK2026 @dpk-kongress.bsky.social

Simon Blackwell being introduced for his talk "Accelerating the Development of Psychological Interventions"
Richard Thwaites@thwaites.bsky.social · last mo.

Great opportunity to influence the BABCP and represent their profession. Would be great to get people who support its attempts to make CBT available and effective for all populations and ensure inclusivity remains a key value.

BABCP@babcp.com · last mo.

Nominations to our Trustee elections are now open, and we’re inviting BABCP members to put themselves forward. We’re seeking two Elected Member Trustees, and one Honorary Secretary. Members should check their emails received on 22 June. 📅Nominations close: 5pm, Friday 31 July 2026

Simon Blackwell@blackwellse.bsky.social · last mo.

Interesting single case series investigating use of Tetris to reduce anxious flashword imagery amongst young people - nice to see extensions of this work to intrusive images beyond trauma. link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Developing a Game-Based, Single-Session Intervention for Youth Anxiety: Early Translational Findings Targeting “Flashforwards” - Cognitive Therapy and Research

Background Anxiety disorders are the most prevalent form of psychopathology and place a high burden on youth transitioning into adulthood. Scalable, effective, and appealing early interventions are ur...

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Saskia Scholten@saskiascholten.bsky.social · last mo.

1/2 🚀 Proud to present our Special Issue on network theory and its application with @leaschumacher.bsky.social, @dkolar.bsky.social, and Philipp Klein. Huge thanks to all authors and reviewers whose excellent work made this a timely, state-of-the-art collection: link.springer.com/collections/...

The network approach to psychopathology: Advances in theory and its application to clinical practice

A special issue for “Cognitive Therapy and Research” (https://link.springer.com/journal/10608) Guest editors: Lea Schumacher, M. Sc., University Medical ...

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Simon Blackwell@blackwellse.bsky.social · last mo.

Great to see this work from Olivia Hewitt and colleagues now published: "Initial Testing of a Novel, Mental Imagery-Based Anxiety Intervention for People With Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disabilities Using a Single Case Experimental Design" onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/... #mentalimagery

Initial Testing of a Novel, Mental Imagery‐Based Anxiety Intervention for People With Mild to Moderate Intellectual Disabilities Using a Single Case Experimental Design

Background People with intellectual disabilities experience higher anxiety rates and barriers accessing effective interventions. This study conducted initial testing and refinement of Co-MAID, a nov...

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Simon Blackwell@blackwellse.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Just seen that the amazing results of the STAR trial (Trauma-focused therapy for people with PTSD and psychosis) are out this week in @thelancetpsych.bsky.social ! www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

Trauma-focused therapy integrated with cognitive behavioural therapy for psychosis for people with post-traumatic stress disorder and psychosis (the STAR trial): a multicentre, pragmatic, randomised t...

Trauma-focused CBTp is safe, highly acceptable, and effective in people with co-occurring psychosis and PTSD. This underserved population should no longer be denied access to psychological interventio...

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Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Published version now available in Current Directions in Psychological Science: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Combining Psychology With Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? - Iris van Rooij, Olivia Guest, 2026

The current AI hype cycle combined with psychology’s various crises make for a perfect storm. Psychology, on the one hand, has a history of weak theoretical fou...

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Iris van Rooij 💭@irisvanrooij.bsky.social · 7mo ago

✨ Updated preprint ✨ Iris van Rooij & Olivia Guest (2026). Combining Psychology with Artificial Intelligence: What Could Possibly Go Wrong? PsyArXiv osf.io/preprints/psyarxiv/aue4m_v2 @olivia.science Our aim is to make these ideas accessible for a.o. psych students. Hope we succeeded 🙂

Figure 1 Illustration of why AI systems cannot realistically scale to human cognition within the foreseeable future: (b) Human cognitive capacities (such as reasoning, communication, problem solving, learning, concept formation, planning etc.) can handle unbounded situations across many domains, ranging from simple to complex. (a) Engineers create AI systems using machine learning from human data. (d) In an attempt to approximate human cognition a lot of data is consumed. (c) Making AI systems that approximate human cognition is intractable (van Rooij, Guest, et al., 2024), i.e., the required resources (e.g. time, data) grows prohibitively fast as input domains get more complex, leading to diminishing returns. (a) Any existing AI system is created in limited time (hours, months or years, not millennia or eons). Therefore, existing AI systems cannot realistically have the domain-general cognitive capacities that humans have. [Made with elements from freepik.com.]
René Freichel@renefreichel.bsky.social · 2mo ago

Co-chaired a symposium at the DPK 2026 on Improving measurement-based care with big naturalistic data, experience sampling, and artificial intelligence. Great discussions - Thanks to all speakers (Claudi Bockting, Wolfgang Lutz, Rob Saunders, Brian Schwartz) and attendees!

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Jan R. Boehnke@jrboehnke.bsky.social · 2mo ago

The #OpenScience working group* of the German Psychological Society's section on #ClinicalPsychology and Psychotherapy has published a paper about opportunities and challenges for OS in Clinical Psychology onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/... #DGPs #OpenResearch The paper focuses on three topcs👇️

Commentary: Making Patient Data Count—Opportunities and Challenges for Open Science in Clinical Psychology

Open science practices—such as preregistration, data and material sharing, and open-access dissemination—are increasingly promoted across psychology, yet their specific value for clinical psychology ....

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