Did you ever experience a clinical case that you just couldn't wrap your mind around? A situation you didn't know how to handle, or a patient with an issue so interesting that you would like to see it discussed on the big stage of our EACLIPT x UMH Conference 2024 in Amsterdam? Then this is your chance: We are honored to announce that Beck Institute Faculty Prof. Dr. Cory Newman, Director of the Center for Cognitive Therapy at the Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, will join us for the conference on March 21 - 22, 2024, to host a special Public Supervision session! For this, we are looking for your most interesting, mind-provoking, obscure, intense, or just most memorable clinical case. We welcome all brief case descriptions at hello@eaclipt.org . And if you haven't gotten your ticket yet: There are still a few left! Get your tickets here .

Join us for our upcoming EACLIPT x UMH Conference on March 21st – 22nd, 2024, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and contribute by presenting your own research: Ticket registration is open now! Location : Tolstuinhuis, Amsterdam, The Netherlands For this year’s conference, EACLIPT partnered up with the Amsterdam-based Centre for Urban Mental Health to host a two-day event on the quest to help people thrive and reduce the burden of common mental disorders in a globalized and increasingly urbanized world. We are thrilled to announce our keynote speakers: Prof. dr. Rosa Banos Rivera Prof.  dr. Henning Tiemeier  Dr.  David Weissman Prof.  dr. Denny Borsboom  Talk: Exploring the Potential of Microinterventions to Boost Mental Health Talk: Population Neuroscience: Research in Children and Underserved Populations that matters for Public Health Talk: Can public policy interventions reduce inequality in neurodevelopment and mental health? Talk: Network approaches to psychopathology: An overview and an agenda for future research Rosa Banos is currently Professor of Psychopathology, attached to the department of Personality, Evaluation and Psychological Treatments, and the Polibienestar Institute, University of Valencia. Henning Tiemeier is Professor of Social and Behavioral Science and the Sumner and Esther Feldberg Chair of Maternal and Child Health at the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public Health, as well as Professor of Psychiatric Epidemiology at the Erasmus Medical Center, Rotterdam. Henning Tiemeier received both his medical and sociological degree from the University of Bonn, Germany, and his PhD from the Erasmus University in Rotterdam, Netherlands.  David Weissman is an Assistant Professor of Psychology at California State University, Dominguez Hills. He obtained his PhD in Psychology from the University of California, Davis, and was a postdoctoral fellow at Harvard University. His research examines how childhood adversity impacts neurodevelopment in adolescence and how this manifests in risk for psychopathology. Importantly, childhood adversity occurs within the context of broader societal structures that influence who experiences adversity and the resources available to them, and Dr. Weissman has conducted pioneering work examining the role of the macrostructural context in neurodevelopment and mental health. Denny Borsboom is Professor in the Psychological Methods Group at the Psychology Department of the University of Amsterdam and director of its Social and Behavioural Data Science Centre. His research focuses on the conceptual analysis of psychometric concepts, the development of new psychometric techniques, and the formation of formalized psychological theory. If you would like to join the conference as a participant, you can get your tickets here . A special student discount is available. Please be aware that this is a boutique high-class conference - tickets are highly limited and likely sold out soon, so please plan ahead in time. You can also stay up-to-date with us on Twitter  and LinkedIn . Call for Abstracts (ended): We further invite researchers and practitioners in the field of Clinical Psychology, Psychological Treatment, as well as Mental Health Research and Complexity Sciences at every level of their professional development, to actively contribute by presenting their recent research findings, insights, and evidence-based practices. Submissions spanning topics such as prevention, diagnostics, interventions, availability and delivery of psychological help, policy making, innovative methods, classifications, and evidence-based recommendations are specifically encouraged. The extended deadline for submissions is December 8th, 2023 , there are four different ways to contribute: Poster presentations : Poster presentations can report on completed studies, research in progress, or innovative ideas. Rapid presentations : 5-minute oral presentations, including time for questions and discussion. We suggest that presentations in this format should not exceed 5 slides. Oral research talks : 15-minute oral presentations, including time for questions and discussion. Symposia : (Groups of) researchers who wish to be allocated into one of the sessions, based on similarity of the presented topics, are encouraged to apply for symposia.

Dear EACLIPT members, as we start a new year, we are honored to reflect upon the remarkable journey we have undertaken together as part of the European Association for Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment. The closing of this year and the beginning of a new year mark proof of our collective commitment to advancing the field of clinical psychology and promoting mental well-being across our diverse communities. The global events that have shaped the year 2023 have underscored the crucial role that clinical psychology plays in fostering mental health.   From our perspective, it’s been an important year for EACLIPT with a succession of highly productive events and activities. We hosted three public webinars on current challenges in Clinical Psychology in collaboration with the SWPS University in Warsaw, which have received great success. These are available for free in our media library . Our official Open-Access journal Clinical Psychology in Europe published three comprehensive issues with exciting research on various topics in Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment, which are publicly available. Recently, we published a Call for Special Interest Groups (SIGs) and received much interest in the domain of Early Career Scientists, Climate Crisis and Clinical Psychology, and Child and Adolescent Mental Health. We are now looking for members interested in actively participating in either of these groups. If you are interested, please send a brief email to hello@eaclipt.org . Our newly elected EACLIPT Board started working at the beginning of 2023. In October, the Presidency was handed over: After four years of serving the organization, Prof. Dr. Claudi Bockting, Netherlands, inaugurated the newly elected EACLIPT President Prof. Dr. Chantal Martin-Sölch, Switzerland. As initiated by the previous EACLIPT Board, we recently released a new EACLIPT Homepage, which now provides up-to-date information on EACLIPT activities, hosts a media corner, and facilitates membership management, don’t hesitate to check it out at www.eaclipt.org . The year 2024 will bring exciting challenges and the opportunity to gather together at the EACLIPT Conference 2024 in Amsterdam on March 21-22, 2024, together with the Centre for Urban Mental Health. A members meeting is planned, with a special slot included in the program. We are looking forward to meeting you all there! Finally, public supervision by the Beck Institute by Cory Newman will be organized during the conference. If you are interested in submitting a case that you would like to discuss and /or are interested in a role play in that context, please get in touch with the organization committee at the following address: assistent.umh@amsterdamumc.nl . With this message, we also would like to thank all those who made this wonderful EACLIPT year possible and are very much looking forward to our upcoming suite of events in 2024. We would also like to pause and consider all those people suffering, either from a mental illness or from other circumstances. In keeping with these thoughts, we wish you and your family a peaceful holiday and a start to the New Year. Your EACLIPT Board

Responding to therapeutic needs of refugees: In this webinar, Professor Frank Neuner , Professor of Clinical Psychology from Bielefeld University, Germany, will talk about the challenges therapists face when treating persons who have experienced war and exile, and the lessons we can learn from this for trauma treatment and psychotherapy delivery. Many refugees from war areas flee to Europe. Due to traumatic events they experience in their home countries and on perilous journeys, and finally due to adverse conditions in exile, a large proportion of refugees present with posttraumatic stress disorder and depression. However, the current theories and treatments of trauma-related disorders are not designed to respond to refugees’ presentations. Moreover, the current way the treatment is provided is not well suited to meet the needs of refugees. Experiences of refugees from war-torn countries help to challenge some core assumptions and prompt us to adapt the current thinking about psychopathology, therapy, and treatment delivery. The lecture is followed by a discussion hosted by Agnieszka Popiel, M.D., Ph.D. / Associate Professor, co-founder and co-head of SWPS University’s Clinic of Cognitive-Behavioural Therapy. We focus on the following issue: If evidence-based practice (EBP) is defined as the integration of the best available research with clinical expertise in the context of patient characteristics, culture, and preferences (according to the American Psychological Association) - delivering treatment to refugees presents a challenge for a (quite idealistic) equilibrium of EBP. People who have suffered so much deserve the best available treatment. Our discussion focuses on questions that are emerging when clinicians equipped with evidence-based treatments face people fleeing wars. Date of Recording: October 19, 2023, 18:00–19:00 CEST (UTC+2), online On Stage: Keynote Speaker : Frank Neuner, Prof. Dr. Panelist : Agnieszka Popiel, Ph.D. / Associate Professor Host: Marta Jackowska, Ph.D. / Assistant Professor

Join us for our upcoming EACLIPT x UMH Conference on March 21st – 22nd, 2024, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands, and contribute by presenting your own research: Ticket registration and Call for Abstracts are open now! The deadline for submitting abstracts has been extended to December 08th, 2023. We are looking forward to your contributions! Learn more about the conference and how to participate:

EACLIPT is a member-run organization - and we would like to increase the participation of our members on central processes of our mission-driven activities, such as developing policy suggestions, writing reports, and campaigning for important issues in Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatments across Europe, even more. That's why it is now possible to create Special Interest Groups (SIGs) within EACLIPT . SIGs are intended to provide a platform for like-minded professionals to exchange ideas, discuss possible solutions, and move into action on current challenges and specific issues in our field. Members of SIGs will be able to use EACLIPTs vast European network and submit reports to the Board, which will also be published on the EACLIPT website. "The challenges we are facing today are complex and diverse. We invite all EACLIPT members to contribute to the topics and issues that are closest to their heart!" Prof. Dr. Chantal Martin-Sölch, President of EACLIPT If you would like to start a Special Interest Group on a topic that is close to your heart and is in line with EACLIPTs mission, we cordially invite you to submit an application to establish a SIG anytime. The EACLIPT Board will review and consider all application. Interested members who would like to join an existing SIG can do so through the new EACLIPT member portal, where space for discussion, sharing of media, meeting links, and working documents is provided. Procedure for establishing an EACLIPT Special Interest Group For the establishment of a new EACLIPT SIG, it requires, At least 3 founding members (EACLIPT members) coming from at least 2 different countries A written application (maximum 2 pages, ideally 1 page) containing the following information: Name of the SIG Contact details of each founding member Statement from SIG: Declaration of Intent Objectives and topics Proposed activities Description of why and how the SIG can be useful for EACLIPT and its members A yearly brief report about the activities of the SIG of the current year should be sent to the EACLIPT Board until January 31rst of the followin Interested in starting a SIG? Please send an email with the required information or your questions to hello@eaclipt.org - we are looking forward to receiving your submissions! The EACLIPT Board p.s.: If you haven't paid your EACLIPT Membership Contribution 2023 yet, you can now sign up for convenient automatic invoicing. Just go to https://www.eaclipt.org/signup/ and login with your existing EACLIPT account. If you have not set a password for your account yet, receive a reset link by clicking "Forgot password". After registering once, your Membership Contribution will be automatically invoiced once a year.

We are delighted to share our progress so far with you on EACLIPT and update you on some exciting events. The European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment (EACLIPT) was founded in 2017 and represents clinical psychology’s academic and scientific interest at a European level. For more information please see www.eaclipt.org or follow us on twitter @eaclipt. YOUNG CLINICAL PSYCHOLOGISTS’ REPRESENTATIVE The EACLIPT Board is keen to bring more clinical psychologists together to collaborate, exchange views and improve psychological research and practice in the long term. We recognise the importance of representing clinical psychologists at all stages of their career and are particularly interested in engaging young clinical psychologists with the organisation to help shape its future. To spearhead this initiative, we are seeking to recruit eligible candidates for the position of ‘Young Clinical Psychologists’Representative’ , who will be people under age 35 or those who qualified in the last 5 years, either in the clinical or research field. The successful candidate will be involved in a range of activities undertaken by the EACLIPT Board. To apply for this position please contact Dr Jenny Guidi ( jenny.guidi2@unibo.it ). Young clinical psychologists are also most welcome to become EACLIPT members, attend EACLIPT congresses, participate in poster presentations as well as symposia, submit research papers to Clinical Psychology in Europe (CPE), the official academic journal of the European Association of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment. CALL TO ACTION - CONTACT YOUR EUROPEAN MEP FOR A EU MENTAL HEALTH STRATEGY Together with other mental health organisations (i.e. GAMIAN) we are initiating a joined effort to request MEPs for their support for an EU level mental health strategy . As part of this, we would like to ask you, as an EACLIPT member, to contact your local MEP to prioritise this issue. You can use the included template letter at the end of this newsletter. If you contact your local MEP please could you let us know so we can keep a record of our efforts. You can find your local MEP here . The results will be discussed in the European Journal of Clinical Psychology. EACLIPT SYMPOSIUM AT THE 32ND INTERNATIONAL CONGRESS OF PSYCHOLOGY IN PRAGUE 2020 The EACLIPT will be represented with a joint symposium at the top event of international psychology, which takes place every four years. Its title is: Clinical Psychology in Europe . It will include presentations from our members Agnieszka Popiel (Poland) on the status of psychological treatments of mental disorders; Omer Van den Bergh (Belgium) on bodily symptoms in psychopathology; Winfried Rief (Germany) on open science, open publication in clinical psychology; and Andreas Maercker (Switzerland) on European network research in the area of traumatic stress. All EACLIPT members attending the 32nd ICP Congress are invited to use this EACLIPT event as a networking opportunity. For more information, please see: www.icp2020.com MEP LETTER TEMPLATE - ADD LOGO OF ORGANISATION HERE Brussels, X November 2019 Re: Support for an EU-level Mental Health Strategy Dear X MEP, On behalf of (ADD NAME OF ORGANISATION), I write to ask you for your support to re-launch specific and dedicated EU-level action on mental health, with the aim to prevent mental ill health and ensure the best possible and appropriate treatment, care and support for those affected and their loved ones. As an organisation (ADD MISSION OF ORGANISATION), we were extremely pleased with the previous Commissions’ explicit attention to mental health, as demonstrated by the 2005 Mental Health Green Paper, the 2008 European Mental Health Pact and the 2013 Joint Action on Mental Health. These initiatives added credibility to the Commission’s own motto, i.e. ‘no health without mental health’, recognising the inextricable link between physical and mental health. However, since the 2016 adoption of the European Framework for action on Mental Health and Well-being, resulting from the Joint Action on Mental Health, and since the work of the Mental Health Compass - monitoring progress on the Framework’s implementation - came to a halt, no specific action has been taken on mental health. Instead, the Commission has opted to address mental health as part of its overall activities in the field of chronic disease. This clearly does not suffice. This is why we were delighted to note the recent Council Conclusions which specifically invite the Commission to come forward with a comprehensive Mental Health Strategy ; this should include specific initiatives on mental health as well as to take account of the impact on mental health in other (health ) policy areas. Our organisation, in cooperation with many others, is keen to see a positive and swift response on the part of the Commission. There are precedents for this type action: the EU Mental Health Strategy could take the existing Action Plans on cancer, rare diseases and disability as a model. We hope to be able to count on the support of the European Parliament in these efforts. Therefore, the MEP Alliance for Mental Health, currently supported by 26 MEPs , has developed a short statement, calling on the Commission to take action as a matter of urgency, which can be found here . We sincerely hope that you will feel able to endorse this statement ; your support is crucial if progress on this issue is to be made. At the bottom of the statement, you can find a link to endorse it. Thank you for your time and attention. Yours sincerely,

We are very excited to invite you to the 6th webinar in our EACLIPT Webinar Series featuring renowned clinical psychologists from around the world. On October 19th, 2023, 18:00-19:00 CET (UTC+2), we welcome Professor Frank Neuner , Professor of Clinical Psychology at Bielefeld University, who will talk about the challenges therapists face when treating persons who have experienced war and exile. Professor Neuner will shed a spotlight on how the experiences of refugees from war-torn countries might help to challenge some core assumptions and prompt us to adapt our current thinking about psychopathology , therapy, and treatment delivery. The lecture will be followed by a discussion. To join the webinar, please reserve your free ticket in advance. Date: October 19, 2023, 18:00–19:00 CEST (UTC+2), online On Stage: Keynote Speaker : Frank Neuner, Prof. Dr. Panelist : Agnieszka Popiel, Ph.D. / Associate Professor Host: Marta Jackowska, Ph.D. / Assistant Professor

Get your agendas out and your red pens ready: We would like to cordially invite you to join us for our upcoming EACLIPT x UMH Conference on March 21st – 22nd, 2024, in Amsterdam, The Netherlands ! For this year’s conference, EACLIPT partnered up with the Amsterdam-based Centre for Urban Mental Health to host a two-day event on the quest to help people thrive and reduce the burden of common mental disorders in a globalized and increasingly urbanized world: Urban Mental Health. We will welcome guests from all over Europe to discuss recent research, new initiatives on how to tackle current and upcoming issues in Clinical Psychology, and also provide a space for early career practitioners and academics to explore how to get into the depths of Urban Mental Health research. A few things to expect from our International Conference: A boutique high-class conference in the vibrant heart of Amsterdam with guests from all over Europe and the world Two days full of exchange on recent research and best practice Listen to keynotes from Europes most innovative researchers in Clinical Psychology and Urban Mental Health Host your own open symposium, or participate in our poster sessions Special program for Students and Early Career Researchers Tickets for the conference will be available shortly. To receive a reminder once registration is open, please sign up to our conference notification list: EACLIPT x UMH Conference 2024 . You can also stay up-to-date on Twitter and LinkedIn . Looking forward to welcoming you in Amsterdam!

It's already been two weeks since the EACLIPT 2022 Conference in Warsaw. It was an amazing meeting of (not only!) clinical psychologists from all over the world, a great time of exchanging experiences and inspiring talks, and - after two years of pandemic - renewing the relationships. We are really happy and grateful we spent this exceptional time together. Thank you for being with us and for your major contribution to the scientific part of this event! Let us share with you some facts and figures about the conference: We had 107 participants onsite , mostly representing European countries (Austria, Belgium, Croatia, Germany, Italy, Lithuania, Poland, Netherlands, Slovakia, Slovenia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom), but not only - we also hosted participants from Canada, New Zealand, Turkey and South Korea. The biggest representations were from Poland, Germany, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Apart from those who attended the event in person, we also had 34 people watching us via an online platform . The onsite participants used the streaming too, to stay current with what was happening in the parallel sessions. We've asked those who attended the conference in Warsaw what they thought about the weekend. Here are some voices from the community: We thank you all for your fine contributions and are looking forward to welcome you during the next EACLIPT events.

We are pleased to announce that a new issue of * Clinical Psychology in Europe* has just been released. You can download the full issue as PDF or read it online at https://doi.org/10.32872/cpe.v5i3 We are very happy to have a wide range of research papers and scientific updates on timely topics in this issue. The issue starts with an important Editorial by Julia Asbrand et al. calling for action in clinical psychology (research) in times of multiple crises . Helen Niemeyer and colleagues propose a research strategy to increase replicability in research on psychological interventions . Furthermore… … there is a report on changes in loneliness among Norwegian students following the COVID19 pandemic [Hysing et al.]. … a study by Fink-Lamotte et al. reports the potential of a short self-compassion intervention for reducing feelings of shame . … Fried et al. introduce a personalized early warning system for depression . … Brown & Crabtree report the effects of a brief worry intervention in an older adult with a persecutory delusion … a study by Käll et al. investigates the effect of support in an internet-based intervention for social anxiety …a systematic umbrella review by Kleinstaeuber & Schroeder et al. gives an insight into research on aetiological factors in functional somatic symptoms . Please help us spread the word, share this announcement, post the news on social media, and of course… …enjoy reading. Winfried Rief & Cornelia Weise Editors-in-Chief Clinical Psychology in Europe Division of Clinical Psychology and Psychological Treatment Philipps-University of Marburg ____________________________ CPE is published at PsychOpen GOLD, the European Open-Access Publishing Platform for Psychology, provided by the Leibniz Institute for Psychology Information (ZPID), Trier, Germany. https://cpe.psychopen.eu https://twitter.com/ClinPsychEurope

Suicide is the most tragic of human outcomes. In this presentation, Professor O’Connor will draw from his book When It Is Darkest: Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do To Prevent It (Vermilion, 2021). The aim of the book is to get to the heart of this phenomenon, challenging myths and misunderstandings as well as bringing together the personal and the professional. Additionally, Professor O’Connor will describe the Integrated Motivational–Volitional (IMV) Model of Suicidal Behaviour (O’Connor & Kirtley, 2018). The IMV model outlines the pathways to the emergence of suicidal ideation and the transition from suicidal thoughts to acts of suicide. This tripartite model maps the relationship between background factors and trigger events, and the development of suicidal ideation/intent through to suicidal behaviour. Crucially, the IMV model identifies clinical targets for treatment. As he has done in When It Is Darkest, Prof. O’Connor will present an overview of some of our clinical, experimental and intervention studies to illustrate how psychological, physiological and social factors increase suicide risk, and what we all can do to tackle suicide. He will also highlight the psychological evidence of what works to prevent suicidal behaviour. The wider implications for the prevention of suicide will also be discussed. Keynote lecture will be delivered by Professor Rory O’Connor , Ph.D, FRSE, FAcSS, President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and a Past President of the International Academy of Suicide Research. About: Rory O’Connor Ph.D, FRSE, FAcSS, – is Professor of Health Psychology at the University of Glasgow in Scotland, President of the International Association for Suicide Prevention and a Past President of the International Academy of Suicide Research. Rory leads the Suicidal Behaviour Research Lab at Glasgow, one of the leading suicide/self-harm research groups internationally. He has published extensively in the field of suicide and self-harm. His research has been extensively cited, as evidenced by Rory being named in the 2022 ISI Highly Cited Researchers list, that ranks researchers in the top 1% for citations in their field. He is the recipient of several awards including the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention’s Research Award (2023). He is also co-author/editor of several books, including being author of the award-winning book When It is Darkest. Why People Die by Suicide and What We Can Do To Prevent It (2021). Rory is also a Trustee of and a Science Council member of MQ Mental Health Research and Trustee of James’ Place, the male suicide crisis service. He is also co-chair of the Academic Advisory Group for the Scottish Government’s National Suicide Prevention Leadership Group.