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Helping Significant Others of Treatment-Refusing Problem Gamblers: A Randomized Wait-List Controlled Trial

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Problem gambling can cause severe harm to concerned significant others (CSOs) in the form of, for example, relationship problems, financial difficulties, and mental and physical illness. CSOs are important for their ability to support problem gamblers and motivate them to change. In a new study, published today, we investigated the effect of an Internet-based intervention … Read more

Congratulations Mårten Tyrberg (he is defending his PhD thesis today)

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Nya Doktorn Mårten Tyrberg med handledare och betygsnämnd samt opponent

Today at 1 pm PhD-student Mårten Tyrberg will defend his thesis entitled Bringing psychological treatment to the psychiatric ward: Affecting patients, staff, and the milieu. I and Tobias Lundgren have been the supervisors. The opponent was Professor Gillian Haddock from Manchester University. Summary of the thesis: The psychiatric ward is a complex setting. This has … Read more

Effectiveness of Self-guided App-Based Virtual Reality Cognitive Behavior Therapy for Acrophobia (fear of hights)

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Globally, access to evidence-based psychological treatment is limited. Innovative self-help methods using smartphone applications and low-cost virtual reality have the potential to significantly improve the accessibility and scalability of psychological treatments. In the upcoming issue of JAMA Psychiatry we report on the effectiveness of ZeroPhobia, a fully self-guided app-based virtual reality cognitive behavior therapy (VR … Read more

Deposit Limit Prompt in Online Gambling for Reducing Gambling Intensity: A Randomized Controlled Trial

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Pre-commitment tools – allowing users of gambling services to pre-set a limit for how much money they may spend – are relatively common. However, there exist no clear evidence of their effectiveness in preventing gamblers from spending more money than they otherwise planned. The aim of the study was to compare gambling intensity between users … Read more

Experiences of responsible gambling tools among non-problem gamblers: A survey of active customers of an online gambling platform

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Responsible gambling (RG) tools, aiming at helping gamblers to avoid gambling-related harms, are common in online gambling platforms. Gambling industry, policy makers, and researchers have warned that RG tools can potentially disturb recreational gamblers, channeling them to less protective operators. No evidence exists to support these concerns, and they can hinder the development of effective … Read more

Descriptive usage, uptake and application performance statistics for a first-generation Virtual Reality application

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Today we got a paper accepted in Frontiers in Psychology entitled “The potential of consumer-targeted Virtual Reality relaxation applications: Descriptive usage, uptake and application performance statistics for a first-generation application”. Virtual Reality (VR) technology can be used to create immersive environments that promote relaxation and distraction, yet it is only with the recent advent of consumer … Read more

Internet‐delivered psychological treatments: from innovation to implementation

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Internet interventions, and in particular Internet‐delivered cognitive behaviour therapy (ICBT), have existed for at least 20 years. In a new paper, that was just published in World Psychiarty (impact factor = 30!), we review the treatment approach and the evidence base, arguing that ICBT can be viewed as a vehicle for innovation. ICBT has been developed and tested … Read more

Special issue with 4 new papers on treatment using Virtual reality

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Today a special issue was published in Journal of Anxiety disorders. A total of 11 papers are included and we are involved in four of those. The most longed for paper is probably the updated version of the classic meta-analysis by Emmelkamp and Powers published in 2008. Trials of virtual reality exposure therapy (VRET) for … Read more

What is so frightening about spiders? Self-rated and self-disclosed impact of different characteristics and associations with phobia symptoms

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Spider phobia is a common and impairing mental disorder, yet little is known about what characteristics of spiders that spider phobic individuals find frightening. Using screening data from a clinical trial, we explored which characteristics that spider‐fearful individuals (n = 194) rated as having the greatest impact on fear, used factor analysis to group specific characteristics, and … Read more