Ben Mullings

Students who take notes by hand get better grades than those who use laptops, especially in STEM fields.

@LindaBerman4 Just don’t laugh too loudly or you’ll pop out the other side of the bubble of acceptability and be seen as crazy again :)

“A sense of humour, especially a capacity to laugh at one’s own idiosyncrasies, has long been considered a core element of mental health.” Nancy McWilliams

@ChefReactions I love your videos and your sarcasm - and I'm a psychologist! Keep being you. But remember, depression sucks more than terrible cooking :)

A cabinet minister has posted flyers to her constituents naming 20 GP practices that do not universally bulk-bill, which doctors have called aggressive and irresponsible. ausdoc.com.au/news/doctors-d…

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@brookmanknight @QLDCountryGP @Mark_Butler_MP Mark has always cooked the books on policy with cherry-picked statistics. That's how we ended up with "ten sessions, with no exceptions" for Better Access. He will keep doing it, because he knows that the average voter doesn't understand the subject matter.

@QLDCountryGP @Mark_Butler_MP It’s not what they say it is as you and I would understand it. 🥳 Counting includes headspace for instance. 😉 There’s a difference between Arithmetic and mathematics. Maybe we should call this type of counting Political Calculus.

What. Is. The. Actual. Increase. In. BulkBilling. Rate? I suspect it's actually very small and that only clinics that were almost totally BB'ing already became 'fully' BB clinics. There's a reason @Mark_Butler_MP keeps talking about clinic numbers, not BB rates.

WHY DID AUSTRALIA VOTE FOR THIS Not that the UN is of much consequence these days, but I am nevertheless genuinely baffled

IVE NEVER HEARD ANYTHING SO AUSTRALIAN

Now this is one wild story. The amount of lawsuits coming down the pipeline with stories like this is going to be astronomical.

🚨 Brown University researchers tested what happens when ChatGPT acts as your therapist. Licensed psychologists reviewed every transcript. They found 15 ethical violations. Not 15 small issues. 15 violations of the standards that every human therapist in America is legally required to follow. Standards set by the American Psychological Association. Standards that can end a therapist's career if they break them. ChatGPT broke all of them. The researchers tested OpenAI's GPT series, Anthropic's Claude, and Meta's Llama. They had trained counselors use each chatbot as a cognitive behavioral therapist. Then three licensed clinical psychologists reviewed the transcripts and flagged every violation they found. Here is what they found. ChatGPT mishandled crisis situations. When users expressed suicidal thoughts, it failed to direct them to appropriate help. It refused to address sensitive issues or responded in ways that could make a crisis worse. It reinforced harmful beliefs. Instead of challenging distorted thinking, which is the entire point of therapy, it agreed with the distortion. It showed bias based on gender, culture, and religion. The responses changed depending on who was talking. A therapist would lose their license for this. And then there is the finding the researchers gave a name: deceptive empathy. ChatGPT says "I see you." It says "I understand." It says "that must be really hard." It uses every phrase a real therapist would use to build trust. But it understands nothing. It comprehends nothing. It is pattern matching on your pain. And it works. People trust it. People open up to it. People believe it cares. It does not. The lead researcher said it clearly. When a human therapist makes these mistakes, there are governing boards. There is professional liability. There are consequences. When ChatGPT makes these mistakes, there are none. No regulatory framework. No accountability. No consequences. Nothing. Right now, millions of people are using ChatGPT as their therapist. They are sharing their darkest thoughts with a product that fakes empathy, reinforces harmful beliefs, and has no idea when someone is in danger. And nobody is responsible when it goes wrong. Not OpenAI. Not Anthropic. Not Meta. Nobody.

@DrGenevieve73 @psychotherapym8 The priorities of an academic often depart significantly with those of a practitioner. Performance metrics at universities shape that experience. For instance, the mindset needed to engage people in psychotherapy is distinctive to that of a researcher. Different qualities.

@psychotherapym8 Why?

Grad students: need to learn how to be therapists That one professor who hasn’t practiced in 15+ years: “so onto memorizing the DSM”

My favourite joke from the show only makes sense to Australians but I refuse to cut it.

AN INCH OF MOVEMENT IS BETTER THAN A MILE OF INTENTIONS🩷

@DrWinarick Looks like the CCRT test is 'premium' access. My familiarity with CCRT goes back to reviewing alliance-related measures and briefly chatting to Lester Luborsky to ask nicely for a copy of HAq-II. I remember how generous and kind he was! I am curious about a test of CCRT...

There exists no online core conflictual relationship theme test except at Implicitify.com where it can be found with normative scoring (%lies based on 442 REs from a 2014 grant I was PI on for the International Psychoanalytic Association) and clinical grade narrative score reports.

If this juggernaut was mine, would I drive it any differently?

@QueenB71243843 Perhaps rebelling against myself. That does sound like something I would do! :)

@BenMullingsPhD Finally rebelling or finally becoming yourself?

As I grow my hair a bit longer and the hair grows ever-swigglier, it dawns on me. I am finally rebelling.

@QueenB71243843 @LindaBerman4 *At some point we lose contact and meaningful connection with stories and impressions left by our great great family members. (sorry, I mangled my words)

@QueenB71243843 @LindaBerman4 Yours is a valid perspective too. Yalom was talking more about the living memories of a person and the rippling effects across generations fading out. At some point we lose contact and meaningful relevance with the stories and impressions of our great great family members.

I thought..about how someone very old is the last living individual to have known some person or cluster of people.When that person dies,the whole cluster dies,too,vanishes from the living memory.I wonder who that person will be for me.Whose death will make me truly dead? Yalom

Degree of diagnostic reliability inheres less in each psych diagnosis/more on setting & how tested. 1)High in research/Low in practice 2)Higher more time spent 3)Lowest in kids 4)Low in primary care 5)Especially awful in DSM-5 field trials because designed/done badly (see below)