1/15 Just published: cognitive-behavioural conceptualisation of the positive & negative roles of social media (SM) use in adolescents’ mental health. @BPSCyberPsych

@DrWinarick E.g., poor performance on a sophisticated visual processing task in a participant with psychosis being attributed to specific visual processing difference, becoming clear that participant is actually experiencing lapses in attention when they hear voices.

@DrWinarick (Even if at population level the screeners generally perform well)

RT @UCLBrainScience: Intervention that helps students normalise everyday emotions the ‘most promising’ trialled in landmark mental health s…

RT @AFNCCF: We’ve completed one of the world’s largest school-based mental health trials through @EBPUnit with @UCL. Read the results from…

@DrWinarick Not sure I follow. Can you expand?

@DrWinarick Any neuropsychologist worth the salt (I would hope) would argue that ANY cognitive/neuropsych assessment needs to be interpreted in the context of lots of other information (e.g., observation during test, practice effects, cultural factors, other presenting issues, etc.).

@DrWinarick Yes. Or magnets. (Same thing).

@DrWinarick Show me a diagnostic screener with 100% discriminant & predictive validity and we can discuss further.

Editors demanding I review a paper within one week, whilst taking months to even find an editor for my submissions. Feels like the system is breaking to me. Anyone have insights?

RT @KingsDClinPsy: It's disheartening to see many applicants applying who haven't completed their degree or meet the minimum FTE experience…

The only chance for humankind's survival is that we find some extraterrestrials to hate more than we do one another, thus driving the unit of selection to the level of the planet, & uniting us in a prosocial co-operative attempt to wipe out the little green men/women.