Jaroslav Točík 🇺🇦🇮🇱

Father, psychologist, clinical behavior analyst. ACT, CBT, schema therapy, behavioral genetics, intelligence, psychometrics, psychological assessment.

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

“Isn’t it odd, though, that the most selfish people you know always seem to be the ones who are armchair diagnosing their friends and family with personality disorders?”

“That’s the real problem with ­therapyspeak. At worst, it’s employed by those who want permission for—or, dare I say, to enable—bad behavior. ‘I’ve done the work,’ therapyspeak says. ‘Therefore I can act like a jerk, but nobody is allowed to be mad at me.’”

Insightful piece, except the title gets one important thing wrong: “You’re Not a Therapist. Stop Talking Like One.”

Legit psychotherapists don’t talk in therapyspeak.

It’s not the language of any psychotherapy tradition. It’s the language of pop culture and social media therapy influencers.

The tragedy is that fewer and fewer people can tell the difference.
https://t.co/g3NbtPwNAJ

[Russell T. Warne 🇺🇸🇨🇱 @Russwarne]

The belief that anyone can learn anything with the right teacher/methods was one of the motivating beliefs behind Project 100,000.

The military improved their training and education for men with IQs between 81 and 92. Most still could not be trained for complex jobs.

https://t.co/zsEvXRbvzW

[Whyvert @whyvert]

Much of academia is prone to portraying leftist political belief as settled factual truth.

E.g. President of the American Anthropological Association insists: "we know, factually... the idea that there are two sexes is just factually incorrect".

Actual biologists:

[Association for Contextual Behavioral Science @myACBS]

What makes clinical supervision distinctly contextual behavioral?

A new Delphi study found expert consensus that functional analysis and experiential learning are at the heart of contextual behavioral (CB) supervision. Researchers also identified four key themes: contextual factors, tasks and behaviors, supervision qualities, and supervision purposes.

As CB therapies continue to grow, these findings provide an important foundation for strengthening supervision, training, and future research.

Read the full article: https://t.co/nBG0lwpiAB

#JCBS #ACBS #ACT #mentalhealth #psychology #CBS #clinicalsupervision

[Russell T. Warne 🇺🇸🇨🇱 @Russwarne]

The authors of a new article found that reading achievement at the end of 1st grade within one low-income school ranged from the lowest level of reading achievement to 3rd grade and beyond.

In practical terms, about 25% of children in one classroom were still struggling to put letter sounds together to form words, while about 20% are fluent readers with increasing comprehension. There's no teacher in the world who can create one lesson plan that meets both groups' needs (and everyone in between).

Ability grouping is a must for competent teaching--even in the earliest grades.

Read more:
https://t.co/cKqNyWluhK

[Steve Stewart-Williams @SteveStuWill]

“The gamete definition of sex is one of the great intellectual accomplishments of our species... Rejecting it would mean casually throwing away more than a century’s worth of rigorous science.”

https://t.co/A7fMj7fBiR

[Werner Zagrebbi🇦🇿 @zagrebbi]

There is literally zero correlation between how much a school district spends and how well its students perform

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

"Wikipedia is... not a lovely, idealistic project staffed by students, scholars, and retirees who just want to share their knowledge to benefit the world... [T]he site has manifestly been captured by a small clique of ideologically motivated bullies."

[Micah G. Allen @micahgallen]

Decades of neuroscience have operated under the assumption that shared genetic or environmental risks explain why multiple mental disorders often appear together.
https://t.co/lul6AKQ0cO

[Nick Longrich @NickLongrich]

Interesting. Papers that don't replicate are actually cited more often than papers that do. Academic citation networks actively amplify flawed research. Curiously, the effect is worst in high-profile journals like Nature/Science, and the bias becomes worse over time.

[Jaroslav Točík 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @lvm93n]

Excellent summary of contemporary psychometrics in ID assessment:
https://t.co/J9WWLxq0tP

[Jonathan Shedler @JonathanShedler]

I have seen a general shift in the mental health professions over the past decades, away from being clinicians who understand principles and think critically in applying them, toward being technicians who diagnose and treat by rote. Applies to psychiatry and psychology both.

[Vince Buffalo @vsbuffalo]

Please don’t vibe code science without checks, part 351.

Treat agentic coding as a hyper-productive computational grad student who is drunk 1/4 of the time they aren’t given explicit directions.

[Richard Haier @rjhaier]

Interesting new paper just published- "More Than General Intelligence: Cognitive Abilities and Class Structure." https://t.co/8bpfya2zok.

[Jaroslav Točík 🇺🇦🇮🇱 @lvm93n]

@HrubantJan @_Roman_Maca Aha, asi se míjíme v pojmech. Efekt ve smyslu effect size, ne nutně ve smyslu příčinnosti. Korelace mezi problematickým užíváním sociálních médií a duševním zdravím jsou na populační úrovni spíše malé (cca 0.05 až 0.35) - tzn efekt ve smyslu velikosti dané korelace je nízký.

[Herman Pontzer @HermanPontzer]

Science moves forward. That was 10 years ago. Here’s the updated model and data:

https://t.co/0IbO3Mxnyy

[Douglas Yao @DouglasYaoDY]

This vial contains a new drug called PAC-832, which I recently invented to treat Alzheimer’s disease. It is the world’s first selective GalR1 antagonist.

I designed and synthesized PAC-832 in a chemistry lab I built in my garage. (1/16)

[Crémieux @cremieuxrecueil]

When mothers don't have adequate nutrition for the babies they're carrying, the body prefers to stunt the baby's body rather than its head.

This is most intrauterine growth restriction: it's asymmetric. The head is just that much more important that evolution favors it.

[Deniz Vatansever @neurodenizen]

What if much of human thought is navigation? 🧠

New open-access review: I argue that the DMN + hippocampal–entorhinal system form a domain-general engine for "mental navigation" across physical and abstract spaces (e.g. social, conceptual, and value).

https://t.co/745L2VRCa7