tCBT New Paper: A DBT skills training group for transgender and gender diverse young people, co-delivered in a charity setting: development, acceptability and feasibility Full free text at https://ow.ly/B88t50ZuYau
Richard Thwaites
@thwaites.bsky.social
NHS CBT Therapist/Clinical Psychologist Cumbria, UK Views own. tCBT Editor-in-Chief @BABCPJournals https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-cognitive-behaviour-therapist
Dedicated followers of passion: the Kinks’ 40 greatest songs – ranked!
Dedicated followers of passion: the Kinks’ 40 greatest songs – ranked!
To coincide with a new exhibition in London about the Davies brothers, we rate the best of a band who brought a sociologist’s eye to hard rock, gentle pastoralia and so much in between
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tCBT New Paper: Invalidation by omission: inclusion, representation, and outcomes of sexual and gender minoritised participants in DBT – a systematic review and meta-analysis Full free text at https://ow.ly/6qLX50ZoSnT
Congratulations to Hibah Hassan who has won the annual Hannah Murray Award for tCBT Practitioner Paper of the Year for her excellent and very clinically useful paper ‘Addressing therapist concerns about religion in CBT: why, when, and how? Full paper available free at https://ow.ly/cpna50ZnNE1
tCBT New Paper: Clients using interpreters wait longer and have poorer outcomes in Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression – a retrospective cohort study on waiting times and treatment outcomes Full free text at https://ow.ly/kSIL50Zl5QP
NEW: @theasrstein.bsky.social writes that the NHS league tables are a management tool masquerading as public information, and are a poor guide to the quality of care that patients can expect. As a public-facing product, they should go. www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk/news-item/ti...
Time to clear the tables: why NHS league rankings don’t work
Last year, the government introduced league tables rating the performance of NHS trusts in England. Thea Stein, who raised concerns at the time, argues that the tables are a poor guide to the quality ...
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Congratulations to Hibah who has been awarded the 2026 Hannah Murray Award for tCBT Practitioner Paper of the Year for this paper!
tCBT & BCP@babcpjournals.bsky.social · 2mo agotCBT New Paper: Addressing therapist concerns about religion in cognitive behavioural therapy: why, when, and how? Full free text at https://ow.ly/hStw50Zam0n
I just signed Foxglove's petition to Andy Burnham: if you become our next PM, get Palantir out of our NHS. A secretive US spy tech firm with deep Trump ties has no business holding our health data. Add your name: www.foxglove.org.uk/campaigns/an...
Sign the petition to Andy Burnham: If you become our next Prime Minister, please get Palantir out of our NHS.
ADD YOUR NAME NOW!
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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
The Mann Review on antisemitism and other forms of racism: some initial thoughts. Can someone explain what significant difference it will make to challenging discrimination? www.rogerkline.co.uk/post/the-man...
The Mann Review on antisemitism and other forms of racism: some initial thoughts
Warning. This is a very long blog for which I apologise, but the proposals in the Mann Review deserve serious and critical attention. This is an initial response and does not consider the role of educ...
rogerkline.co.uk
This is one of the most personal pieces I've written in a long time. It explores anxiety, belonging, a scene from Superman III, and three neighbourhood cats who taught me more about connection than they will ever know. #LonelinessAwarenessWeek chris-frederick.medium.com/the-last-100...
The Last 100 Metres
The distance between wanting connection and reaching it.
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New episode of Research Matters 🎙️ Caught between services: bridging the gap between talking therapies and substance use support. Steph speaks with Rich Pione about a reciprocal consultation model between NHS Talking Therapies and substance use services. 🎧https://ow.ly/LuAZ50ZazcI
tCBT New Paper: Addressing therapist concerns about religion in cognitive behavioural therapy: why, when, and how? Full free text at https://ow.ly/hStw50Zam0n
tCBT New Paper: A pilot service evaluation of cognitive behavioural therapy for insomnia (CBT-I) within an NHS Talking Therapies for Anxiety and Depression service Full free text at https://ow.ly/b1iE50Z863X
What the government is doing to trans people is a society-wide version of Section 28. It is a level of bureaucratic cruelty that utterly decimates a whole group of people’s rights and puts anyone who doesn’t ‘look’ right in the eyes of others under constant surveillance. It’s a horrific thing.
Terrible news from BBC: racial abuse of NHS staff is rising. 8,000+ incidents reported in 2024 – up 17% from 2023. True figure is probably higher. As nurse Tito Vicario put it: “We’re not punching bags, we’re still people.” NHS leaders need to act like that is true.
NHS staff face 'unprecedented' levels of racism from patients
Figures from some NHS trusts in England show there was a 17% rise in reports of racism in a year.
bbc.co.uk
A wall of crypto money is powering Nigel Farage, both politically and personally. And much of the British media just shrugs app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73421/...
Alnwick, Northumberland, 1936, by Harold Steggles, 1911-71, leading member of the East London Group.
