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This paper reports the first population-representative epidemiological studies of the prevalence of PTSD in very young children. The results showed that using a developmentally-appropriate PTSD algorithm resulted in up to 20-fold increases in the estimate for PTSD prevalence in children under 6 years old. HITCHCOCK, C., GOODALL, B., Sharples, Meiser-Stedman, R., WATSON, P., Ford T. […]

C2AD researchers (names in caps below) contributed to an individual patient data mega-analysis across all published Mindfulness Based Cognitive Therapy (MBCT) trials. The paper shows that MBCT is superior both to usual care and to anti-depressant medication as a secondary prevention for depressive relapse in those with a history of recurrent depression. It contributed to […]

New research: Transdiagnostic approaches to mental health This paper emerged from our 2018 Expert Meeting on Transdiagnostic Approaches to Mental Health held at the CBU. It forms part of a Special Issue of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology edited by Dalgleish and Black. The paper reviews and critiques the current state of the […]

Nick Moberly (Mood Disorders Centre, University of Exeter). Be careful what you wish for: Personal goals and psychological distress. Personal goal pursuits provide structure and meaning to life and contribute to affective and cognitive experience. Control theory (‘cybernetic’) accounts suggest that negative affect and rumination signal that rates of progress on important goals are unsatisfactory. […]

The CLIMB Project is a Mental Health Data Pathfinder grant funded by the Medical Research Council. Seven research teams are collaborating to bring together psychiatrists, clinical data experts, computational biologists and teams with expertise in cognitive neuroscience, experimental medicine and immunopsychiatry. The project combines the expertise of the University of Cambridge and Cambridge and Peterborough […]

For the April C2:AD seminar, we will be hosting:  Gary Brown ( Royal Holloway). Measurement in psychotherapy outcome and process research: Old obstacles and new developments.  The central challenge of clinical research is to translate findings from study samples that aggregate across individuals to the idiosyncratic needs of those seeking services. This depends critically on (1) […]

C2:AD Workshop – New developments: Cognitive-behavioural therapies for OCD. Dr Jan van Niekerk. Most clinicians are familiar with exposure and response prevention treatment and cognitive appraisal model CBT for OCD. However, many are not familiar with newer models such as inference-based therapy, metacognitive therapy and ACT.  The workshop will aim to clarify OCD DSM-5 diagnosis, […]

Friday 1st February 12.30 – 1.30pm   Herchel Smith Building on the Forvie site at Addenbrooke’s Hospital in Cambridge  http://c2ad.mrc-cbu.cam.ac.uk/location Please note that no registration is required for this event, and that parking is limited. We are delighted to be hosting Professor Graham Davey from the University of Sussex. Creating psychological models of pathological worrying. More information about Professor Davey […]

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Have you ever been to an inspiring training workshop but struggled to regain that inspiration once you were back in your usual work place? Or found your regular supervisor is not familiar with the new approach from the workshop? If so, welcome to “Traipervision”, a new format of CPD which aims to bridge the gap […]