Psychotherapy for Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) does have an effect on overall symptoms of BPD. But individuals with BPD often suffer from interpersonal difficulties and these can severely affect daily functioning.

One of the main advantages of Digital Mental Health Interventions (DMHIs) is their ability to reach individuals who would otherwise never receive treatment.

Gerade entdeckt: Das Buch ist ab jetzt als E-Book verfügbar, ab Mitte des Monats auch gedruckt. Bin aufgeregt, dass es endlich soweit ist und unendlich dankbar allen, die dazu beigetragen haben. link.springer.com/book/10.1007...

Cord Benecke (1965-2025).

I am extremely grateful that I will have the opportunity to present this CBS Superlab with Michael Muthukrishna, Sigal Zilcha-Mano, Steven C. Hayes and Kirk Strosahl. It will be one of my highlights of 2026.

Psychotherapy for individuals with Borderline Personality Disorder is effective, maybe more so when certain comorbidities are present. That is the result of a large individual participant data meta-analysis (IPD MA) just published by Johanne Pereira Ribeiro Psychotherapy and Psychosomatics.

Wie kommt es, dass Menschen, die widrige Kindheitserfahrungen erlebt haben, auch stärker unter psychischen Erkrankungen leiden?

New paper led by Nele Assmann, in which we used causal forests to test the heterogeneity of treatment effects of Schema Therapy vs. DBT for severe Borderline Personality Disorder.

Differential effectiveness of dialectical behavioral therapy and schema therapy in patients with borderline personality disorder: a secondary analysis of a randomized clinical trial

Borderline personality disorder (BPD) can be treated successfully with specific psychological treatments, but there is no clear evidence of superiorit…

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The recording is now available so that you can confirm that I indeed have a German accent and color-match my outfits with my Zoom background. youtu.be/YL0co26ng-g?...

CIIG Seminar: Julia Rohrer | Making Rigorous Causal Inference More Mainstream | 20 Oct 2025

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Julia M. Rohrer@dingdingpeng.the100.ci · 10mo ago

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

It is well-established that unguided digital interventions are effective in reducing symptoms of depression. But what about the effect on quality of life?

Happy to announce that I'll give a talk on how we can make rigorous causal inference more mainstream 📈 You can sign up for the Zoom link here: tinyurl.com/CIIG-JuliaRo...

The Borderline Personality Disorder Checklist (BPD-CL) can be used for self-assessment in various languages because it is a reliable and valid measure of symptoms of BPD in its Dutch, English, German, Greek, Italian and Spanish version.

Quite possibly one of the best presentations on how to conduct research. It is by Peter WG Tennant from the University of Leeds, UK and focusses on modern causal inference methods. More on it here: youtube.com/playlist?lis...

Getting ready to teach internal/external/construct validity, for the first time using the framing by Estlinger, @davebrady72.bsky.social and @eschwitz.bsky.social (www.degruyterbrill.com/document/doi...). Super happy because this is much clearer than what I told student before!

Wouldn't it be wonderful if a pharmacist looked over your shoulder while prescribing psychotropics and made sure you are doing everything right to prevent your patient from prolonged QTc intervals and its consequences like life-threatening cardiac arrhythmias?

It has often been suggested that psychotherapy works because patients expect it will work before they have even started treatment. But what if treatment expectations are an emergent phenomenon that develops in the course of psychotherapy and contributes to a successful outcome?

Behavioural Activation (BA) and Metacognitive Therapy (MCT) teach distinct therapeutic skills, and this study found that the acquisition of both skill sets—those taught in BA and those taught in MCT—is associated with changes in depressive symptoms. www.researchgate.net/publication/...

How does a digital psychological intervention for social anxiety disorder work? A recent study suggest that the most effective intervention components, psychoeducation and exposure, exert their effect through reductions in safety behaviours, avoidance and negative social cognitions.

At this year's SPR International Meeting in Krakow last week, I received the Distinguished Research Career Award, which is a great honor for me, and I am very grateful.

Excited to be co-hosting a workshop with the legendary Patti Robinson at the ACBS WC 2025 in New Orleans. We will show you how to use predictive coding theory (PCT) to develop powerful ACT interventions using a process-based perspective.

Patients can be overly reliant on their therapist.

Even though earlier results were very promising, the findings of a rigorously conducted RCT published in JAMA Psychiatry suggest that adding statins to antidepressants do not lead to better outcome in obese individuals with depression. jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

How you view yourself (a.k.a. self-functioning) might play a central role in your mental health. It is not only strongly associated with rumination about one’s weaknesses and reduced ability to pursue meaningful activities but also with symptoms of depression and anxiety. bit.ly/3Fpf6Na

CBASP is more effective than Supportive Psychotherapy (SP). But how much more effective depends on the study site: 12,5% of the variance in this differential treatment effect can be explained by the study site, a recent analysis found. bit.ly/4kuIPDo

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

We created a videobyte to summarize the study in 1.5 minutes. Please enjoy! www.youtube.com/watch?v=m5jc... (c) Kyoto University

A new smartphone app could help fine-tune therapies for subthreshold depression

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Toshi Furukawa@toshi-frkw.bsky.social · last yr.

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...

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The digital therapeutic priovi reduces severity of Borderline symptoms and and might even reduce suicide attempts. That is the result of a study we have now published in The Lancet Psychiatry. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...

➡️ Main Takeaway: Most people may not experience negative effects from smartphone or social media use, but those already vulnerable to loneliness are at greater risk ❗ 🔗 psycnet.apa.org/doiLanding?d... 🔗 osf.io/preprints/ps... \w Aurelio Fernández,@mariestadel.bsky.social,Martien Kas,Anna Langener