CBT, behavioral activation, problem-solving therapy and life-review therapy are effective in the treatment of older adults with depression. Read our new network meta-analysis in International Psychogeriatrics With Clara Miguel, Eirini Karyotaki, Mathias Harrer doi.org/10.1016/j.in...

Are you interested in how mental health care can be improved? Why the innovation cycle in psychotherapy is flawed? Improvements are possible, but only through small, incremental steps. Listen to the interview I had with Dan Cox about this psychotherapyandappliedpsychology.com/ep/18996789-...

How Psychotherapy Actually Gets Better with Dr. Pim Cuijpers | Psychotherapy and Applied Psychology

Our guest this week is Dr. Pim Cuijpers, director of the WHO Collaborating Centre for Research and Dissemination of Psychological Interventions in Amsterd…

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Is self-help helpful? Yes, it can be, but not for everyone and not with any self-help tool. If you want to know more , read the new article in Die Zeit for which I was interviewed (in German): www.zeit.de/2026/14/selb...

Selbsthilfe bei psychischen Erkrankungen: Aus eigener Kraft

Jeder vierte Deutsche hat eine psychische Erkrankung, nur ein Bruchteil macht eine Therapie. Können auch Ratgeber, Apps und Podcasts ihnen helfen, gesund zu werden?

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The Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology advances research on the diagnosis, assessment, and treatment of behavioral health disorders across a variety of populations. Learn more and read free sample articles: https://bit.ly/4sAFLcL Editor: @pimcuijpers.bsky.social

Many innovations of psychotherapies are currently examined. See our overview in the last issue of World Psychiatry: (1) Digital interventions (2) Personalized treatments (3) New/ improved therapies (4) Dissemination With @mathiasharrer.bsky.social @toshi-frkw.bsky.social doi.org/10.1002/wps....

Innovations to improve outcomes and uptake of psychotherapies for mental disorders: a state‐of‐the‐art review

Psychotherapies have been found effective in the treatment of most mental disorders. However, substantial improvements are still much needed, and many innovations of therapies are currently being dev...

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People with more severe depression probably benefit more from psychotherapy than those with mild depression. Read our new meta-analysis of almost 400 randomized trials of therapies for depression. With Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel, Eirini Karyotaki, Davide Papola doi.org/10.1016/j.ja...

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/...

Has the time come to stop using control groups in trials of psychosocial interventions?

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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...

E138 What Does Science Reveal About Therapy? (w/ Prof. Pim Cuijpers) - The Thinking Mind Podcast: Psychiatry & Psychotherapy

Pim Cuijpers. Ph.D. is professor emeritus of Clinical Psychology at the Department of Clinical, Neuro and Developmental Psychology, Amsterdam Public Health research institute, Vrije Universiteit Amste...

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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.

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Evidence-based personalized & optimized CBT skills for depression, based on a trial of 4469 adults. The Resilience Training App will augment the efficacy by 35% overall over the group average best, and by 64% for those whose best option wasn’t this group average best! www.nature.com/articles/s41...

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

Stop het leed in Gaza

Het sentiment onder de Nederlandse burgers heeft de politiek en het politieke handelen al lang en breed ingehaald. Het gebrek aan concrete actie om het leed nu te stoppen maakt de Nederlander machtelo...

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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 ☀️

The strengths and limitations of CBT across mental health conditions

CBT is a cornerstone of mental health care, but how well does it work across disorders? New meta-analysis offers some answers and raises new questions.

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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...

The MAHA Report Has Been Updated With Fresh Errors

One psychologist who is newly cited in the report said the updated reference misconstrues his research.

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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...

Delivery formats of cognitive behavior therapy in adults with eating disorders: a network meta-analysis

Although CBT has been found to be effective in the treatment of eating disorders, it is not clear if there are differences between treatment formats. We conducted a network meta-analysis (NMA) of r...

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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

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults

This unified series of meta-analyses examines the effect sizes of cognitive behavior therapy for many mental and eating disorders on symptoms of the respective disorders using uniform methodologies fo...

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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/...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults

Interview with Pim Cuijpers, PhD, author of Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults: A Unified Series of Meta-Analyses. Hosted by John Torous, MD

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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...

Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Mental Disorders in Adults

This unified series of meta-analyses examines the effect sizes of cognitive behavior therapy for many mental and eating disorders on symptoms of the respective disorders using uniform methodologies fo...

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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...

Hoeksteen van dit regeringsbeleid: de angst voor verfrissende inzichten

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...

Psychologie: Das hilft wirklich gegen Depressionen

Psychotherapie oder Medikamente? Tiefenpsychologie oder Verhaltenstherapie? Seit 17 Jahren erforscht Pim Cuijpers, wie Menschen Depressionen überwinden.

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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

Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents

Depression in children and adolescents is a major public health problem. Prevention and treatment can help reduce the disease burden of depression. Pim Cuijpers gives an overview of the research on pr...

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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...