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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 16/04/2026
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...
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
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-...
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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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 26/03/2026
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...
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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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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
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: bit.ly/4sAFLcL Editor: @pimcuijpers.bsky.social
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 15/01/2026
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....
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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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 09/01/2026
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...
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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/...
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Has the time come to stop using control groups in trials of psychosocial interventions?
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 01/09/2025
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...
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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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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · 22/08/2025
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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 13/08/2025
Ik vind deze campagne erg belangrijk - doe je ook mee? actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/sp...
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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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Ella W Tuominen @ellatuominen.bsky.social · 30/07/2025
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 ☀️
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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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 10/06/2025
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....
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The value of mental science: we publish what matters | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
The value of mental science: we publish what matters
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repugfascistrebel.bsky.social @repugfascistrebel.bsky.social · 08/06/2025
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 31/05/2025
The MAHA repot has also cited an article of which I am first author wrongly www.notus.org/health-scien...
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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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
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....
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Assessing the strength of innovations in the treatment of depression | The British Journal of Psychiatry | Cambridge Core
Assessing the strength of innovations in the treatment of depression
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APA Journals @apajournals.bsky.social · 14/05/2025
"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
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 29/04/2025
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...
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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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Zachary Cohen @depressionlab.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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
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New precision mental health care approach for depression addresses unique patient needs | University of Arizona News
U of A psychologists teamed up with Radboud University in the Netherlands to develop a precision treatment approach for depression that gives patients individualized recommendations based on multiple ...
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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
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
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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
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
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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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
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/...
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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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
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...
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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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
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...
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American Psychologist - Five Decades of Research on Psychological Treatments of Depression: A Historical and Meta-Analytic Overview
Pim Cuijpers, Mathias Harrer, Clara Miguel, Marketa Ciharova, and Eirini Karyotaki
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Heleen Riper @heleenzz.bsky.social · 06/04/2025
Hoeksteen van dit regeringsbeleid: de angst voor verfrissende inzichten
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Heleen Riper @heleenzz.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Don’t miss the webinar I will give on prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents on May 22nd
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
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...
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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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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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
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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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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
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...
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Clara Miguel @claramiguel.bsky.social · 13/03/2025
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...
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Self-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression: a meta-analysis of randomized trials | Epidemiology and Psychiatric Sciences | Cambridge Core
Self-reports vs clinician ratings of efficacies of psychotherapies for depression: a meta-analysis of randomized trials - Volume 34
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 12/03/2025
You can now register for the webinar on “Prevention and treatment of depression in children and adolescents” that I will be giving on Thursday 22 May, hosted by #ACAMH. Don’t miss it! www.acamh.org/event/preven...
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 20/01/2025
What to do when therapy is not working? Eden Arielle Gordon wrote an article in Success Magazine about this, citing me and my work www.success.com/what-if-ther...
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What to Do If Therapy Isn’t Working as Well as You’d Hoped
George, a 22-year-old who chose to use a pseudonym, says that he was first forced to see a therapist as a child and has seen numerous different | SUCCESS
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Hans Laroes @hanslaroes.bsky.social · 11/01/2025
Gevonden (uhh op Facebook, excuus):
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 08/01/2025
Will AI replace therapists? Newsweek asked experts, including me, about their opinion. Spoiler alert: no, it will not, but it will change mental health care. www.newsweek.com/will-ai-repl...
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Will AI replace therapists?
As more users turn to ChatGPT for emotional support, experts weigh its potential to reshape mental health care.
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 24/12/2024
Just published in the American Psychologist: “How to Improve Outcomes of Psychological Treatment of Depression: Lessons From “Next-Level” Meta-Analytic Research”. This was published in association with the 2024 Award that I received from the APA: doi.org/10.1037/amp0...
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Daniel P. Moriarity @dpmoriarity.bsky.social · 11/12/2024
Interesting new read by @pimcuijpers.bsky.social in Current Directions in Psych Science @psychscience.bsky.social. I don't read enough about different ways of thinking through strategies for prevention. Excited to try to fit these concepts in a course soon journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....
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Pim Cuijpers @pimcuijpers.bsky.social · 04/12/2024
One could say that the research field on prevention of depression is stuck. Interested in this field and in solutions how to continue? Read my new open access paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science doi.org/10.1177/0963...
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Mathias Harrer @mathiasharrer.bsky.social · 22/11/2024
Just wanted to let everyone know that the one and only Pim Cuijpers and Toshi Furukawa are now on Bluesky as well! :) @pimcuijpers.bsky.social @toshi-frkw.bsky.social #PsychSciSky #psychiatry #statssky #psychsky
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Mathias Harrer @mathiasharrer.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Read our new article just published in The Lancet Psychiatry. Thanks to everyone involved in the IPD-PrevDep Consortium \w Claudia Buntrock, @pimcuijpers.bsky.social, @toshi-frkw.bsky.social, and so many more.
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Toshi Furukawa @toshi-frkw.bsky.social · 20/11/2024
Depression is preventable. Our individual participant data meta-analysis based on >7000 participants proved that psychological interventions reduce the incidence of depression within a year from 10% to 6%. authors.elsevier.com/sd/article/S...
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