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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 14/09/2026

🔔 Call for Papers 🔔 I’m guest editing a Special Issue of Cognitive & Behavioral Practice Cognitive-Behavioral Approaches in Context www.sciencedirect.com/special-issue…

As sociopolitical crises of the past
decade have made increasingly salient,
cognitive-behavioral frameworks that
are well-suited to treating pathology
located within the individual are not
always well-suited to support work
with clients whose distress is
proportionate to the real
environmental challenges they
experience. This Special Issue of
Cognitive & Behavioral Practice focuses
on the concept of "environmental
pathology," which we use here to refer
to social, cultural, political, and/or
environmental circumstances within
which significant distress or
impairment are normative and
proportionate responses. Examples
include chronic exposure to
discrimination such as racism,
misogyny, or transphobia; realistic
medical health risks such as
pandemics; insufficient access to
healthcare, food, or housing; military
violence; or realistic threat or

We are especially interested in
manuscripts that describe the
principled extension of evidence-based
cognitive-behavioral principles to work
with clients whose clinically significant
distress or impairment could be
reasonably described as healthy,
normal, or appropriate to their meso-
or macro-systemic context. We also
welcome articles focused on
community-level interventions
designed to prevent or reduce
contextual barriers to mental health
and wellbeing. C&BP is a practitioner-
oriented journal that publishes
narrative and systematic reviews,
research reports that include rich
clinical descriptions, case series and
studies, clinical commentaries, and
treatment development reports. As
such, articles should emphasize
material likely to be informative to
clinical practice and supervision, such
as detailed case descriptions, excerpts
from psychotherapy transcripts, and

Example topics include:
1. Ethical obligations, dilemmas, and responsibilities to consider when navigating
environmental pathology in clinical practice
2. Theoretical frameworks or suggested best practices for leveraging evidence-based
principles in the context of environmental pathology, particularly for concerns or
contexts that are not adequately addressed within the existing empirical
literature.
3. Global perspectives, such as considerations when translating evidence-based
practices between cultures and/or working with displaced clients or refugees.
4. Empirical studies, meta-analyses, or intensive case series designs investigating
the efficacy of novel or established interventions for clients presenting with
distress or impairment associated with one or more forms of environmental
pathology
5. Primers, introductory papers, or case studies offering cognitive-behavioral
translations of practices from diverse theoretical orientations, cultures, or
epistemologies, supported by an appropriately critical review of relevant
literatures
6. Case studies, theoretical frameworks, or literature reviews evaluating diverse
practices for navigating discussions of politically-charged or taboo topics in
assessment, therapy, or clinical research
7. Strengths-based approaches, including empirical studies or literature reviews on
topics such as resilience, critical consciousness, neurodiversity, or post-traumatic

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 27/08/2026

I’m grateful for the opportunity to soft-launch another upcoming Call for Papers, this one an open call for *Cognitive and Behavioral Practice* on doing effective clinical work when the dysfunction is in the client’s environment. Start your gears turning! I’ll circulate the official call next week.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 18/08/2026

Any time I have a brilliant insight about systems of oppression, my next step is to figure out which Black woman scholar already explained the idea clearly decades ago. Behold, the “matrix of domination,” the system of power named by Collins (2000). The actual, literal matrix of domination.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 17/08/2026

💡Open Call for Proposals 💡 Special Issue of Clinical Psychology Review: Phenomenology and Classification of Repetitive Thought We plan to accept 1-2 narrative, systematic, or meta-analytic reviews of underrepresented perspectives/areas. Email me your 1-page letter of intent for consideration.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 06/08/2026

I always dread prepping new courses, right up until the moment I sit down to start, at which point I remember that I actually love prepping new courses. Psychological Interventions II? Advanced grad seminar?? We are going to have SO. MUCH. FUN.

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Dr. Allison G. Harvey @allisonharvey.bsky.social · 04/08/2026

Are you reviewing applications for a PhD in clinical or counseling psychology this fall? If yes, please consider adding your name to this list. We're hoping to make it easier for applicants to find you! docs.google.com/spreadsheets...

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Accepting Clinical or Counseling Psychology Grad Student?

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 31/07/2026

Assume you have some power. Be critical of ideas and accepting of people. Create with care and purpose, and without fear. Do, or do not, or try — there is no correct answer. Everything would be safer and easier if we all spoke more openly. Fabulous is as fabulous does. Great minds think.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

And now for my greatest challenge yet: adhering to my principled refusal to extend science beyond the literal while writing — wait for it — an empirical paper on the latent structure of repetitive thought.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 16/07/2026

Join my team at the University of Regina! The AIBL (PI: Gordon Asmundson) and CNMA (PI: Lauren Hallion) labs are seeking a full-time research assistant to assist both labs with various administrative and research tasks. Apply here: urcareers.uregina.ca/postings/22628

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Research Assistant

The Anxiety and Illness Behavior Lab and the Cognitive and Neural Mechanisms of Anxiety Lab are seeking a full-time lab coordinator to assist both labs with various administrative and research-oriente...

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

I’ve yet to see much discourse around the apocalyptic destruction that generative artificial intelligence is poised to wreak on the entire concept of journalism and fact checking. If deepfakes become legal, easy to create, and difficult to detect, ChatGPT essays will be the least of our concerns.

Elle Cordova @ellecordova.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

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Exercising rights with @janefonda.com! #1ACommittee

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Night of the Living Red Durkin @daedsider.bsky.social · 11/07/2026

My bookstore is unapologetically leftist. I work very hard to curate our inventory. We often get compliments from customers. We also, sometimes, get people who wander around for a bit with a look of abject disgust on their face before quietly leaving. This, too, feels like a compliment.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

I would like to gently remind academic psychology that we’re in this situation because of collective dereliction of duty. We are navigating systemic trauma. Actual progress is one of the options available to us. We’ll get there when we decide to stop relying on euphemism as a crutch.

the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

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I’m also pretty sure we just cracked the ‘satanic panic’ case. Memories can’t be ‘recovered’ — you either remember abuse or you don’t. Memory creation *is* impaired during traumatic events, though, and long-term trauma can cause memory problems. open.spotify.com/album/5yaumQ...

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Tubthumper

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Moira Donegan @moiradonegan.bsky.social · 09/05/2026

*stares in dominance feminism*

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I'm looking forward to reading this. I can't stop thinking about the Scott Lilienfeld (he of "Microaggressions: Strong claims, inadequate evidence" fame) paper titled, "Looking under the tinfoil hat". I wonder what function that overt stigma serves.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

It occurs to me that, at the moment, I’m the only person that has all of the necessary information to understand why this is such a perfect uncanny valley. You’ll just have to take my word for it in the meantime.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

I’ve got several *extremely* cool projects on the horizon that I can’t announce yet, but here’s the artist’s rendering: youtu.be/nlIYME8iQ1Y?si=RJinqTLRLkC…

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

If you’ve never come out as #MeToo during your tenure review, I can’t fault you for being less well-versed in this particular manifestation of patriarchy. My experiences with it succeeded mostly in teaching me the mechanics of conspiracy, pissing me off, and incentivizing me to be loud as possible.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 29/04/2026

I think I understand the hesitation better now. I still notice some people and interest groups defending and exploiting the invisibility of the system of power. But for most people, and for many reasons, I think it’s just very difficult to translate implicit understanding into plain language.

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Jess Calarco @jessicacalarco.com · 27/04/2026

I remember, in grad school, Chuck Bosk telling us, re: ethnography--if you haven't pissed someone off with your research, you probably haven't done enough to interrogate systems of power.

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Nature Portfolio @natureportfolio.nature.com · 27/04/2026

A scientific consensus about what the term ‘trauma’ means has so far proven elusive. A Review in Nature Reviews Psychology advances a common understanding of the emotional, contextual and cognitive aspects of psychological trauma. go.nature.com/3Q86EqM 🧪

This is figure 2, which shows examples of how active inference can be applied to understand post-traumatic stress disorder.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 17/04/2026

I’ll remind you of some of my other views: > obviously conspiracies exist > waves are great and we should all make more of them > pronouncing it “lick-urt” is pretentious and silly I don’t need affirmative action for those ideas. I need to offer more convincing arguments.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

Yes, we desperately need viewpoint diversity. We need the views of people from diverse identities and backgrounds, and the views of women who aren’t trying to contort their points to be palatable under patriarchy. We could call it something like… diversity? inclusion? I’m just riffing here.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

I’m so sad to hear this. Dr. Foa developed one of the three leading treatments for PTSD. I was privileged to learn it under her supervision. For the interested, the others are Cognitive Processing Therapy (developer: Dr. Patty Resick) and EMDR (developer: Dr. Francine Shapiro). (Notice a trend?)

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 16/04/2026

We’ll get our treatment effect sizes moving again when enough white male clinical science gatekeepers finally decide to support and do the best work possible, instead of the best work possible without jeopardizing any social or epistemic hegemony. I have reason to believe that it’s possible.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

I wish we had thought vaccines too. But gaslighting as public policy failed catastrophically. If you need evidence, look around. I refuse to endorse scientific malpractice so well-intentioned but deeply wrong scientists can double down on pseudoscience. If it makes me unpopular, so be it.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 12/04/2026

Thinking of Copernicus and the surgeon that discovered hand washing today. Implying that scientists have developed thought vaccines is perpetuating misinformation. Unless, of course, someone would care to post a link to the peer-reviewed paper titled, “Thought vaccines: Mechanisms and efficacy”.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

Which is a nice excuse to re-up this 2024 @natureportfolio.nature.com paper with Kean Hsu and Jessica Schleider on improving cognitive training interventions. It’s been very cool to see folks following so many of our recommendations in recent work. www.nature.com/articles/s44...

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Cognitive training for mental health problems - Nature Mental Health

In this Perspective the authors survey the state of computerized cognitive training interventions for mental health and identify some of the challenges and opportunities in the scale-up of certain int...

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 06/04/2026

I enjoyed chatting with the Boston Globe about new work from Courtney Beard’s team testing an app for interpretation bias modification: www.bostonglobe.com/2026/04/02/metr…

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

I’m spending the weekend in and around Minneapolis, and when I tell you, this city is not fucking around.

A large billboard visible on the drive in to Minneapolis. The background is half red and half blue with white font on both sides. The red side reads “NO KINGS” and the blue side reads “NO COWARDS”. Under both if reads “People over party” and gives a website link (MN50501.org)

A sign with colorful font reading, “ALL ARE WELCOME IN MSP.” and solid black font reading “EXCEPT ICE.”

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

You are the only person with the power to decide who you are. You are not the only person with the power to decide which costumes are harmful. Genuinely trans or questioning? You’re valid. Be as you and as visible as it’s safe to be. Actually cis? Speak up — but do it in *your own* voice.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

Trans people deserve the freedom to live their lives without being made into political pawns. When cis people use trans identities as avatars for their own struggles, it makes trans folx more vulnerable, not less. Same for other marginalized groups. You can’t protect someone by hiding behind them.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 31/03/2026

In honor of #TransDayofVisibility and in protest of the morally bankrupt SCOTUS ruling, check out Conversion. It’s about the history of ‘therapies’ to change sexual orientation (same principles apply for gender identity) and how my field learned to stop doing them: youtu.be/wsPO787Ntb4

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the quiet part @ellesalt.bsky.social · 23/03/2026

Check out the Project Hail Mary soundtrack. They be writing! It’s a few years behind me, so it’s not a perfect fit for my materais, but maybe you’ll recognize yourself: open.spotify.com/album/47Kmv7...

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Project Hail Mary (Original Motion Picture Score)

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Jacquelyn Gill @jacquelyngill.bsky.social · 19/03/2026

There are at least three major news stories about sexual assault and abuse of power by men in prominent positions this week. Government, labor, academia; the culture is everywhere, and women disproportionally bear the weight of the consequences. If this week feels extra heavy, be kind to yourself.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 17/03/2026

I am inviting the folks that tweet and subtweet about vaccines and heath misinformation to put your money where your mouth is. Tell us which ideas about vaccines are real science and which ideas are misinformation.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 14/03/2026

Alright, because this has been bothering me for long enough: Would you please indicate your understanding of whether vaccines can be delivered verbally? If you feel comfortable, please share your answer, profession, and explanation in the comments. strawpoll.com/PKgle92zEZp

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

Follow alert for Dr. Ali Mattu, who is is one of the best mental health science communicators around. I’ve used his YouTube videos in my classes for years. Check out his work and give him a follow! 👇

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 24/02/2026

I can’t help but think how much farther along we would be in terms of scientific progress if the time, energy, and resources those networks put into obstructing women’s progress were instead put to any other purpose.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 19/02/2026

It has come to my attention that I am being more of a jerk about this than is strictly necessary. Apologies — I’ve been increasingly frustrated by these systems for years, and it seems to have resulted in a bit of a tea kettle situation. I’ll work toward being less scalding in my delivery.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

You should understand, that is what happened. The public learned to mistrust scientists and higher education because prominent scientists engaged in abuse, harassment, and coverup in public, then demanded that the witnesses mask their knowledge. Shock of shocks, it was not great marketing.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

And if academic men would consider not driving the entire higher educational system into the ground by firmly and publicly branding it as cult and exploitation playground instead of place of respect and learning, everyone’s tenure and grant budget would be much obliged.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 18/02/2026

As far as I can tell, I’m the only tenured woman willing to be loud about the Epstein files and harassment in academia, and seeing as how none of the men of academic bluesky have the balls or integrity to do it, I’m going to keep being that person I needed, and needed to see.

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

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A lot of male profs playing real fast and loose with jokes about murder (and of women specifically) in the immediate release of the Epstein files. I think it’s pretty nauseating that folks are apparently actively trying to make it culturally acceptable. I miss woke twitter.

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Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Clinical science as a field has actively — and at varying levels, knowingly — fed into systemic and structural gaslighting for decades. Why would academic gatekeepers — mostly middle aged and older white men — want us to believe that we’re imagining these abusive systems?

Lauren S. Hallion, Ph.D. @laurenshallion.bsky.social · 17/02/2026

Alternatively, I could just share my thoughts on gaslighting in the field of clinical science. I don’t know; what do folks think?