Angie McDonald

BABCP Accredited CBT therapist, Registered Mental Health Nurse and academic. All views my own.

[NES Psychology @NES_Psychology]

The One Good Adult Job Description (OGA-JD) supports staff working with children and young people. Written by children and young people, the OGA-JD reflects what they say characterises adults who support their mental health and wellbeing. Find it here: https://t.co/p9F8x4d6Hg

[Anna Freud @annafreuduk]

We’ve completed one of the world’s largest school-based mental health trials through @EBPUnit with @UCL. Read the results from Education for Wellbeing and find out how schools can build students’ mental health and wellbeing: https://t.co/0yXtyqoKdg

[NES Psychology @NES_Psychology]

https://t.co/tTPPkuZM9j is a searchable database of evidence-based mental health & wellbeing interventions for children & young people. The resource aims to support managers & services to make well informed decisions when commissioning new interventions #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

A mind Map for PhD students struggling with their thesis structure

[Faheem Ullah @Faheem_uh]

PhD Students - Here are the 50 most useful tools for researchers.

𝐋𝐢𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐮𝐫𝐞 𝐑𝐞𝐯𝐢𝐞𝐰

1. @LitmapsApp
2. @ResearchPal
3. @ConnectedPapers
4. @Scite
5. @answerthisio
6. @SemanticScholar
7. @R_Discovery
8. PubMed
9. @zotero
10. @EndNoteNews
11. @mendeley_com

𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐖𝐫𝐢𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠

1. @teampaperpal
2. @Reviewit
3. @thetrinkaai
4. @scispace_
5. @Grammarly
6. @overleaf
7. @googledocs
8. @scrivener
9. @juliusai
10. Hemingway Editor

𝐑𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐚𝐫𝐜𝐡 𝐏𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧

1. @canva
2. @mindthegraph
3. @BeautifulAI_
4. @gammaapp
5. @piktochart
6. Designsai
7. @VismeApp
8. @prezi
9. @infogram
10. Vizzlo

𝐏𝐚𝐩𝐞𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐚𝐝𝐢𝐧𝐠

1. @Scholarcy
2. @EnagoRead
3. @sci_summary
4. @ScribeaiHQ
5. Petal AI
6. @Outreadofficial
7. Paper Digest
8. PubReader
9. DeepDyve

𝐃𝐚𝐭𝐚 𝐀𝐧𝐚𝐥𝐲𝐬𝐢𝐬

1. @spss
2. @tableau
3. @PowerBI
4. @NVivoSoftware
5. @Minitab
6. @msexcel
7. @clcoding
8. @googlesheets
9. JASP

How to use them?

For this, check my YouTube: https://t.co/iaGymDM8iL

Any other tool you'd like to add?

[Library Mindset @librarymindset]

12 Books To Read In 2025

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“The patient should give some indication of wanting not only change but 𝘵𝘰 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘯𝘨𝘦, that is, of dissatisfaction with something that resides in the self”
—Otto Kernberg

When the patient recognizes that they are contributing to their own difficulties, it’s easy to develop a working alliance and shared treatment purpose

The purpose is to understand how the patient is contributing to their difficulties and develop alternatives to that—so they don’t have to spend their lives repeating and reliving the same painful, self-defeating patterns. This becomes the shared work of psychotherapy

When patients do not see that they are contributing to their own difficulties, the work of the therapy shifts. The work is now about helping the patient to recognize and understand their own role in their difficulties

This is difficult work, requiring genuine therapeutic skill, sensitivity, tact, and compassion. It may take weeks or months to help the patient to truly grasp that changing their unhappy outcomes requires changing something about themselves

There’s no foundation for doing any other work in therapy unless and until patient recognizes this and desires to change

(Alternatively, if the patient really has no role in their difficulties, then their problems are not problems that psychotherapy can solve, and the patient has come to the wrong place. They may need help, but it’s not help that can be provided via a psychological treatment)

If it becomes clear that it is impossible to create this foundation of shared purpose, treatment should not proceed. And the therapist must understand that treatment never really began. There was no working alliance and no foundation to build on

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

Literature Review

[Renfrewshire Health and Wellbeing Education Team @RenEdHWB]

Cohort 8 of our Approaches to #CBT started tonight! Here’s what Mr Collins from @BishoptonPS took away from the session. @RenCouncil @RenfrewshireEPS @EdScot_HWB @apmcdee

[Emmanuel Tsekleves @PhDtoProf]

The 5 main types of literature reviews I wish I knew before starting my PhD

Ready to dive into these 5 essential types with me?

[Prof. Rita Orji, PhD @ritapurity]

If you are a beginner researcher, this paper will help you.

[Scholarship for PhD @ScholarshipfPhd]

PhD Thesis Structure Mind Map

[BABCP @BABCP]

“Things that shouldn’t be”: Understanding the meaning of violation in OCD and trauma, is a @BABCPpodcasts with an OCD focus. In this Research Matters episode, @CurnowSteph speaks with @SandraKrause4 about a paper in @theCBTJournal
#OCDAwarenessWeek
https://t.co/oHIOZ3YUeP

[Let's Talk About CBT Podcasts @BABCPpodcasts]

🚨 New Episode Alert! 🚨
In this new Practice Matters epsiode @DrRachelHandley talks with @DrFionaCh all about perinatal OCD and how CBT is an effective treatment to help give parents back their joy.
Listen here: https://t.co/HiQX5vBqG2 or wherever you get your podcasts
@BABCP

[tCBT & BCP are on BlueSky etc @theCBTJournal]

New tCBT Editorial to introduce the Special Collection : Enhancing your delivery of cognitive therapy for PTSD: a celebration of the work of Hannah Murray

Full free text at https://t.co/3vadiP1m0P

Collection at https://t.co/Fsk4UhcUSM

[tCBT & BCP are on BlueSky etc @theCBTJournal]

BCP New FirstView Paper: Development and psychometric properties of the Health Anxiety Behavior Inventory (HABI)

Full free text at https://t.co/ANvDnkPn0u

[tCBT & BCP are on BlueSky etc @theCBTJournal]

🎙️ New Podcast Episode!🎙️
What are the biggest misconceptions about trauma-focused CBT for PTSD?

Steph chats with Nick about the team's paper in theCBTJournal https://t.co/TleGpFIbvM

Tune in now: https://t.co/0Uej8iFbIB or find us on Apple, Spotify, and more!

[tCBT & BCP are on BlueSky etc @theCBTJournal]

tCBT New Paper: The Quality of Supervision Questionnaire – associations between quality, person and context variables

Full free text at https://t.co/wdxE5lkskC

[tCBT & BCP are on BlueSky etc @theCBTJournal]

tCBT new paper: Developing, delivering and evaluating a university-led cognitive behavioural therapy service for students

Full free text at https://t.co/s6xh1YESfg

[tCBT & BCP are on BlueSky etc @theCBTJournal]

BCP FirstView new paper: The relationship between perfectionism and self-esteem in adults: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Full free text at https://t.co/T5Iicgb3Rg