Brian Schwartz
@schwartz-psyres.bsky.social
Postdoctoral researcher at Trier University || Licensed psychotherapist || ECR representative DGPs section clin psychol || Psychotherapy research || Views are my own
📢 🚨 New dissemination article out now on our cross-cultural EMA study @JuanMartínGómezPenedo, @julianrubel.bsky.social @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social @AndrésRoussos @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social @JuliaKönitz @RocioManubens @BeatrizGómez @JavierFernández-Alvarez @ManuelMeglio @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social
New book on practice-based evidence by Louis Castonguay, Dana Atzil-Slonim, Michael Barkham, and @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social We contributed a chapter on data-informed psychological therapy (Chapter 3). www.amazon.com/dp/B0GX34TXT...
Practice-Based Evidence in the Psychological Therapies: Toward Policy Implications for Research, Training, and Clinical Guidelines
Amazon.com: Practice-Based Evidence in the Psychological Therapies: Toward Policy Implications for Research, Training, and Clinical Guidelines eBook : Castonguay, Louis G., Atzil-Slonim, Dana, Barkham, Michael, Lutz, Wolfgang: Kindle Store
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🔎🧩 𝗕𝗲𝘆𝗼𝗻𝗱 𝗕𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗵𝗺𝗮𝗿𝗸𝘀: 𝗛𝗼𝘄 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘃𝗮𝗹𝘂𝗮𝘁𝗲 𝗠𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗹 𝗛𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵 𝗔𝗜 𝗥𝗲𝘀𝗽𝗼𝗻𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗹𝘆 AI for mental health is a high-stakes area: its evaluation needs to meet the highest expectations. The new preprint 𝘙𝘦𝘴𝘱𝘰𝘯𝘴𝘪𝘣𝘭𝘦 𝘌𝘷𝘢𝘭𝘶𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘰𝘧 𝘈𝘐 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘔𝘦𝘯𝘵𝘢𝘭 𝘏𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩, written by an interdisciplinary team spanning AI [...]
New publication with @danilomoggia.bsky.social @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social on engagement in the MoodMission app. The HRS-MA captures cognitive and attitudinal dimensions of engagement in digital interventions. Open Access onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10....
Psychometric Evaluation of the Homework Rating Scale—Mobile Application: Reliability and Predictive Validity for Assessing Engagement in Smartphone‐Delivered Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
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Peer-led self-help groups for alcohol use disorder can strengthen self-efficacy and therapeutic factors as much as—or more than—professional-led therapy, highlighting their potential in closing treatment gaps (pilot study). #SelfHelp #PeerSupport #MentalHealth www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...
Frontiers | Helping people help themselves? Effectiveness of a self-help group for patients with alcohol use disorders—a pilot study
ObjectivePeer-led self-help groups are increasingly popular, but research on their effectiveness and processes remains scarce. This pilot study aimed to inve...
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In den letzten Wochen haben viele Fachgruppen der @dgps.bsky.social ihre Jungmitglieder-Vertreter:innen in den Fachgruppenleitungen gewählt. 🗳✨ Wir haben diesen Anlass genutzt, um uns zu vernetzen, Ideen auszutauschen und spannende neue Angebote für unsere Jungmitglieder zu planen. 🚀🤝
Out now in World Psychiatry. We @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social discuss advances in personalized psychotherapy, the generalizability of models, the need for prospective studies and clever designs such as SMART trials, and new technologies such as LLMs. onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
Advances in personalization of psychological interventions
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We examined the effects of transtheoretical change factors (incl. coping and interpersonal experiences) over the course of therapy. Effects diminish over time, but this decrease is associated with better outcomes. With @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @danilomoggia.bsky.social karger.com/psp/article-...
Which Mechanism Kicks in When? Temporal Changes in the Effect of Transtheoretical Factors on Symptom Distress over the Course of Therapy
Abstract. Introduction: The mechanisms of change in psychological therapies have not yet been sufficiently empirically validated. In particular, the time course of their effects on patients’ symptom d...
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Anyone with access to Karger articles in my bubble? I need help. #paywall
Interested in feedback in psychotherapy? Check out the new book edited by @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social and Julian Rubel with chapters on different international feedback systems, clinical support tools, EMA, the required technology, implementation issues and more: link.springer.com/book/10.1007...
Feedback Informed Psychological Therapy
This book is a clinical guide to using routine outcome monitoring and feedback to prevent and address patient deterioration over the course of treatment.
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Danilo Moggia, Ph.D.@danilomoggia.bsky.social · last yr.I'm proud to have contributed a chapter to this book discussing the Trier Treatment Navigator (TTN) with @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social @julianrubel.bsky.social . It's an excellent book!!! link.springer.com/chapter/10.1... #psychotherapy #mentalhealth #clinicalpsychology
New output from the INSPIRE group in World Psychiatry: Synthesis of expert opinions on measurement-based care, how it works, and how it should develop. Led by Christian Moltu, with @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @kimdejong.bsky.social and many more onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...
How can measurement‐based care improve psychotherapy processes and mental health service delivery? A synthesis of expert perspectives
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New paper comparing 3 neural networks in BRAT with @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social Jaime Delgadillo @danilomoggia.bsky.social. Moderate accuracy with no meaningful differences, neural nets did not outperform glm, but only few predictors. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Comparing three neural networks to predict depression treatment outcomes in psychological therapies
Artificial neural networks have been used in various fields to solve classification and prediction tasks. However, it is unclear if these may be adequ…
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If you're at SPR Brno later this week come join us at our semi-plenary on Digital Technologies & AI in Psychotherapy w/ Drs. Jaime Delgadillo, Zac Imel, Brian Schwartz, and Derek Richards
Heute, 14:30 Uhr, auf der Blue Stage beim DPK. Ich konnte @tkaiser.science, @tinain-albon.bsky.social, André Kerber, Stephan Bartholdy und Louisa Jagmetti für ein Panel zu Effektivität, Wirkfaktoren und Prozess-Forschung gewinnen. Erscheinen Sie, sonst weinen Sie!
❗ New paper ❗ in Cognitive Therapy and Research with @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social, Eshkol Rafaeli, @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social, @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social & Jessica Uhl 🔍 Wearable heart rate may provide insights into psychotherapeutic change processes when stationary measurement isn't feasible
The plan to implement a single item that measures emotional and psychological outcome (EPO-1) throughout Europe in various countries and in currently 13 languages was criticized. We have responded. cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cp... cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cp... cpe.psychopen.eu/index.php/cp...
Response to the Commentary „Can a 1-Item Scale for Psychotherapy Outcomes Be Psychometrically Robust?”| Clinical Psychology in Europe
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The special section on multimodal measurement in psychotherapy research #SPR led by Katie Aafjes-van Doorn is now published online, including our paper on the validity of sentiment analysis to measures emotions in psychotherapy sessions. @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Decoding emotions: Exploring the validity of sentiment analysis in psychotherapy
Given the importance of emotions in psychotherapy, valid measures are essential for research and practice. As emotions are expressed at different levels, multimodal measurements are needed for a nu...
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Large multi-site naturalistic research-practice network (KODAP initiative). Evaluation of routine care outpatient psychotherapy in 29 German university clinics (N = 6624). d = 0.75-0.95, 3.4% no change, 1.9% worsening. Open access publication in BRAT.
Tina In-Albon@tinain-albon.bsky.social · last yr.KODAP paper by @psychojule.bsky.social @julianrubel.bsky.social @hannachristiansen.bsky.social @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @stephanbartholdy.bsky.social @evalottabrakemeier.bsky.social @brenneberg.bsky.social @schwartz-psyres.bsky.social and others doi.org/10.1016/j.br...
𝗠𝘂𝗿𝗶, 𝘂𝗻𝘀𝗲𝗿 𝗞𝗼𝗻𝗴𝗿𝗲𝘀𝘀-𝗢𝗿𝗮𝗸𝗲𝗹 hat entschieden: 📅 DGPS:9.4.2025, 16:30 - 18:00 "Psychische Gesundheit und Demokratieförderung" 📅 Unith:9.4.2025, 08:00 - 09:30 "Psychotherapie 2035 - schaffen wir die Wende?" 📅 Fachgruppe:10.4.2025, 08:00 - 09:30 "Promotion und Weiterbildung: wie geht das?"
First publication of the year with @wlutzpsyres.bsky.social @miriamhehlmann.bsky.social: Therapists’ interpersonal skills before start of training predicted outcomes during clinical training, especially for more severely distressed cases. Open access in BRAT: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Elucidating therapist differences: Therapists’ interpersonal skills and their effect on treatment outcome
Therapists differ in their average treatment outcomes. However, it remains unclear which characteristics differentiate more from less effective therap…
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