Mindfulness: the key to treating OCD?

Only 50-65% of patients with Obsessive-Compulsive Disorder (OCD) benefit from standard OCD treatments. Until recently, the remaining individuals needed to live with the debilitating effects of the illness. Fortunately, mindfulness is now emerging as an alternative.

Emma Nesbit, Mayra Jager and Sabrina Bayer • April 21, 2022

More efficient mental health care using outcome feedback technology

With the rising costs of mental health care and large numbers of patients not benefitting from treatment in routine care, there is an urgent need for psychological treatments to become more effective and efficient. Our solution? Bring in technology.

Kim de Jong and Jaime Delgadillo • December 21, 2017

Truly awesome data

Researchers perform studies to test their hypothesis. Yet, some hypotheses require data so special, that they are rarely tested. The Netherlands Study of Depression and Anxiety provides researchers in Leiden, Amsterdam, and Groningen with such special data

Anne-Wil Kruijt • December 09, 2013

Where on earth did the effect go?

One replication is worth at least a thousand t-tests, indeed, but several replications (let’s say about twenty) and well-powered studies are worth at least a million t-tests.

Marc Molendijk • March 19, 2013

Happiness and hormones: spring breaks, autumn falls

Our mood can be affected by the changing of the seasons. What do we understand about seasonal affective disorder (a.k.a. winter depression)?

Marc Molendijk • February 01, 2013

Leveling as a difference maker in clinical psychology

Income inequality has pernicious effects on well-being. Still, it does not seem to have had a tremendous backlash in the field of clinical psychology. Should it?

Marc Molendijk • January 31, 2013

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