Center for Contextual Psychiatry
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The CCP @KU_Leuven led by Prof. Inez Myin -Germeys (@inezgermeys.bsky.social) & Prof. Olivia J. Kirtley (@oliviajkirtley.bsky.social).
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Research with people, not just about them 🌍🧠
We teamed up with two of our Patient Advisory Board members (@ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social) to reflect on our first year of collaboration. Read more in our blog post:
Dutch: ap.lc/wehgE
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#participatoryresearch #mhealth
We teamed up with two of our Patient Advisory Board members (@ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social) to reflect on our first year of collaboration. Read more in our blog post:
Dutch: ap.lc/wehgE
English: ap.lc/cWXhI
#participatoryresearch #mhealth
Wetenschap met open oren: de kracht van een adviesraad - PsychoseNet.be
Samen bouwen aan onderzoek dat niet alleen over mensen gaat, maar gedaan wordt mét mensen aan onze zij. Patiënt Public Involvement!
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November 6, 2025 at 10:26 AM
Research with people, not just about them 🌍🧠
We teamed up with two of our Patient Advisory Board members (@ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social) to reflect on our first year of collaboration. Read more in our blog post:
Dutch: ap.lc/wehgE
English: ap.lc/cWXhI
#participatoryresearch #mhealth
We teamed up with two of our Patient Advisory Board members (@ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social) to reflect on our first year of collaboration. Read more in our blog post:
Dutch: ap.lc/wehgE
English: ap.lc/cWXhI
#participatoryresearch #mhealth
📣 New paper by Raphaël Bonnier!
A new study investigates how Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) can support adolescents and adults who engage in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI).
📄 Read the full paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new study investigates how Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) can support adolescents and adults who engage in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI).
📄 Read the full paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Clinical benefits and challenges of ecological momentary assessment in individuals who self-injure and seek mental health treatment
Non-suicidal Self-Injury (NSSI) is a prevalent transdiagnostic behavior. The use of Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) shows clinical potential, bu…
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November 7, 2025 at 11:59 AM
📣 New paper by Raphaël Bonnier!
A new study investigates how Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) can support adolescents and adults who engage in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI).
📄 Read the full paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
A new study investigates how Ecological Momentary Assessment (EMA) can support adolescents and adults who engage in non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI).
📄 Read the full paper: www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
👀 New on the ESM Item Repository website: the ESM-Q!
A comprehensive quality evaluation tool for ESM items - featuring 10 core and 15 supplementary criteria.
Developed by @gudruneisele.bsky.social and Anu Hiekkaranta in a Delphi study with 40+ ESM/EMA experts!
@esmrepository.bsky.social
A comprehensive quality evaluation tool for ESM items - featuring 10 core and 15 supplementary criteria.
Developed by @gudruneisele.bsky.social and Anu Hiekkaranta in a Delphi study with 40+ ESM/EMA experts!
@esmrepository.bsky.social
ESM-Q | ESM Item Repository
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September 29, 2025 at 1:57 PM
👀 New on the ESM Item Repository website: the ESM-Q!
A comprehensive quality evaluation tool for ESM items - featuring 10 core and 15 supplementary criteria.
Developed by @gudruneisele.bsky.social and Anu Hiekkaranta in a Delphi study with 40+ ESM/EMA experts!
@esmrepository.bsky.social
A comprehensive quality evaluation tool for ESM items - featuring 10 core and 15 supplementary criteria.
Developed by @gudruneisele.bsky.social and Anu Hiekkaranta in a Delphi study with 40+ ESM/EMA experts!
@esmrepository.bsky.social
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New preprint!
Does data quality drop when participants respond to #EMA / #ESM surveys in the presence of others?
We explored this in a pooled analysis of 4 ESM studies and found (subtle) shifts in burden & response behavior depending on participants’ social context:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Does data quality drop when participants respond to #EMA / #ESM surveys in the presence of others?
We explored this in a pooled analysis of 4 ESM studies and found (subtle) shifts in burden & response behavior depending on participants’ social context:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
OSF
doi.org
August 8, 2025 at 7:24 AM
New preprint!
Does data quality drop when participants respond to #EMA / #ESM surveys in the presence of others?
We explored this in a pooled analysis of 4 ESM studies and found (subtle) shifts in burden & response behavior depending on participants’ social context:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
Does data quality drop when participants respond to #EMA / #ESM surveys in the presence of others?
We explored this in a pooled analysis of 4 ESM studies and found (subtle) shifts in burden & response behavior depending on participants’ social context:
doi.org/10.31234/osf...
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The first preprint of my PhD is out! Our review maps choices that researchers make throughout an ESM study from start to finish, including reporting and open science practices. We compare our findings to previous literature where possible, but also provide novel insights! osf.io/preprints/ps...
OSF
osf.io
September 23, 2025 at 3:58 PM
The first preprint of my PhD is out! Our review maps choices that researchers make throughout an ESM study from start to finish, including reporting and open science practices. We compare our findings to previous literature where possible, but also provide novel insights! osf.io/preprints/ps...
📢 Save the Date! The REAL Workshop is coming soon.
The perfect opportunity to connect with fellow researchers and dive into experience sampling & ambulatory assessment.
✨ Plus a new update of The Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology will be out soon!
The perfect opportunity to connect with fellow researchers and dive into experience sampling & ambulatory assessment.
✨ Plus a new update of The Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology will be out soon!
September 24, 2025 at 12:28 PM
📢 Save the Date! The REAL Workshop is coming soon.
The perfect opportunity to connect with fellow researchers and dive into experience sampling & ambulatory assessment.
✨ Plus a new update of The Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology will be out soon!
The perfect opportunity to connect with fellow researchers and dive into experience sampling & ambulatory assessment.
✨ Plus a new update of The Open Handbook of Experience Sampling Methodology will be out soon!
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Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay. Join millions around the world in raising awareness, sparking conversations, and changing the narrative on suicide. Together, we can make a difference. #WSPD2025
September 10, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Today is #WorldSuicidePreventionDay. Join millions around the world in raising awareness, sparking conversations, and changing the narrative on suicide. Together, we can make a difference. #WSPD2025
Our colleague, Dr. Glenn Kiekens, is finalist for New Scientist Science Talent 2025! 🎉 His research uses digital tools to better predict & prevent self-injury in young people. Please vote here before Sept 8 👉 lnkd.in/eRBrwg8n
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September 1, 2025 at 11:45 AM
Our colleague, Dr. Glenn Kiekens, is finalist for New Scientist Science Talent 2025! 🎉 His research uses digital tools to better predict & prevent self-injury in young people. Please vote here before Sept 8 👉 lnkd.in/eRBrwg8n
🚀 New INTERACT paper! We explored how clients with early psychosis experienced the ACT-DL app, used between ACT therapy sessions. 🔎 How did clients experience using the app? How can it be improved? Open access paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#earlypsychosis #digitalmentalhealth
#earlypsychosis #digitalmentalhealth
Perspectives of Patients With Early Psychosis on the Use of an App in Acceptance and Commitment Therapy: A Qualitative Study
Introduction
Individuals with early psychosis received Acceptance and Commitment Therapy in daily life (ACT-DL), consisting of 8 face-to-face sessions and use of a mobile app at home, as part of a r.....
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August 21, 2025 at 8:35 AM
🚀 New INTERACT paper! We explored how clients with early psychosis experienced the ACT-DL app, used between ACT therapy sessions. 🔎 How did clients experience using the app? How can it be improved? Open access paper here 👉 onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...
#earlypsychosis #digitalmentalhealth
#earlypsychosis #digitalmentalhealth
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🚨 New paper out!
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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July 4, 2025 at 11:00 AM
🚨 New paper out!
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
We studied how loneliness relates to self-harm in adolescents in real time, and how parent–child attachment shapes this link, thereby offering key insights into when and why adolescents self-harm and what we can do to help.
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...
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Have you used the @esmrepository.bsky.social in your research, e.g., to find items, contribute items, conduct measurement research, etc? We need your help! Please share. #ExperienceSamplingMethod #OpenScience @ambulatory-assessment.org
The ESM Item Repository needs your help! We're applying for funding 💰and we need people to tell us how they have used the Repository in their work. If you are willing to be contacted ✉️ by the Repository team to tell us more about this, please reply to this post and please share! #OpenScience
June 23, 2025 at 11:02 AM
Have you used the @esmrepository.bsky.social in your research, e.g., to find items, contribute items, conduct measurement research, etc? We need your help! Please share. #ExperienceSamplingMethod #OpenScience @ambulatory-assessment.org
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@ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @benjaminkunc.bsky.social talks about his work assessing the structure & measurement invariance of ESM items to assess social experiences. Measurement matters! Preprint coming soon... #SAA2025 #ProudSupervisor
May 27, 2025 at 11:42 AM
@ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @benjaminkunc.bsky.social talks about his work assessing the structure & measurement invariance of ESM items to assess social experiences. Measurement matters! Preprint coming soon... #SAA2025 #ProudSupervisor
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Happening now at #SAA2025! @gudruneisele.bsky.social leading a symposium on ESM data quality & quantity. Kicking us off @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on careless responding. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #ProudSupervisor
May 26, 2025 at 1:57 PM
Happening now at #SAA2025! @gudruneisele.bsky.social leading a symposium on ESM data quality & quantity. Kicking us off @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social PhD student, @millapihlajamaki.bsky.social on careless responding. Preprint: osf.io/preprints/ps... #ProudSupervisor
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Do you like coffee ☕, ambulatory assessment 📱and #OpenScience 🔑? We are hosting a contributors’ café during lunch breaks & poster sessions @saa2025leuven.bsky.social. Come find the café to have a cup of coffee and contribute your items to the repository! #SAA2025 🧵 ⬇️ 1/4
ESM Item Repository
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May 21, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Do you like coffee ☕, ambulatory assessment 📱and #OpenScience 🔑? We are hosting a contributors’ café during lunch breaks & poster sessions @saa2025leuven.bsky.social. Come find the café to have a cup of coffee and contribute your items to the repository! #SAA2025 🧵 ⬇️ 1/4
📢 New PhD vacancy: Context characteristics influencing daily-life stress coping in individuals at risk for mental illness. Mind-Body Research and Center for Contextual Psychiatry are looking for a PhD student on the topic of stress coping in daily life. More info: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
PhD: Context characteristics influencing daily-life stress coping in individuals
PhD vacancy - Context characteristics influencing daily-life stress coping in individuals at risk for mental illness
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May 13, 2025 at 11:14 AM
📢 New PhD vacancy: Context characteristics influencing daily-life stress coping in individuals at risk for mental illness. Mind-Body Research and Center for Contextual Psychiatry are looking for a PhD student on the topic of stress coping in daily life. More info: www.kuleuven.be/personeel/jo...
🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Dr. Joanne Beames et al. published a systematic review on the use of ESM in anhedonia research. Highlights: anhedonia was measured differently across studies, was present in various mental health conditions, and varied by context and time. Find out more: tinyurl.com/yj4c97kc
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May 12, 2025 at 11:08 AM
🔥 Hot off the press! 🔥 Dr. Joanne Beames et al. published a systematic review on the use of ESM in anhedonia research. Highlights: anhedonia was measured differently across studies, was present in various mental health conditions, and varied by context and time. Find out more: tinyurl.com/yj4c97kc
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Just a reminder that the Open Science for ESM workshop by Prof. Olivia J. Kirtley and Prof. Ginette Lafit is also taking place on Friday, May 30th! @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social
More info and registration here: gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/rese...
More info and registration here: gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/rese...
Open Science For ESM Course
gbiomed.kuleuven.be
May 8, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Just a reminder that the Open Science for ESM workshop by Prof. Olivia J. Kirtley and Prof. Ginette Lafit is also taking place on Friday, May 30th! @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social @ginettelafit.bsky.social
More info and registration here: gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/rese...
More info and registration here: gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/rese...
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📢Only 3 days left to register for the post-conference workshops! Registration closes on May 11. Sign up here: www.saa2025.com/Register
SAA 2025
Society for Ambulatory Assessment Conference 2025
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May 8, 2025 at 11:00 AM
📢Only 3 days left to register for the post-conference workshops! Registration closes on May 11. Sign up here: www.saa2025.com/Register
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Still places on our #OpenScience for experience sampling/ecological momentary assessment/Ambulatory Assessment course! If you're heading to @saa2025leuven.bsky.social & you'd like to learn more about open science, come and join us at this post-conference workshop! Registration & more info ⬇️
Come and join @ginettelafit.bsky.social and I in Leuven after SAA to learn about #OpenScience for Experience Sampling/Ecological Momentary Assessment! More details in the post below. Please share! @ambulatory-assessment.org
Are you heading to @saa2025leuven.bsky.social? Fancy extending your stay in Leuven to learn more about #OpenScience for Experience Sampling Method research with @ginettelafit.bsky.social & I? We are running a one-day course after the conference! More info here: tinyurl.com/334rytta
April 24, 2025 at 12:16 PM
Still places on our #OpenScience for experience sampling/ecological momentary assessment/Ambulatory Assessment course! If you're heading to @saa2025leuven.bsky.social & you'd like to learn more about open science, come and join us at this post-conference workshop! Registration & more info ⬇️
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📣 New blog post! 📣 @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social's @benjaminkunc.bsky.social gets into the nitty-gritty of factor analysis and its use and misuse: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts #Measurement #ExperienceSamplingMethod
Blog posts | ESM Item Repository
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April 3, 2025 at 6:43 AM
📣 New blog post! 📣 @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social's @benjaminkunc.bsky.social gets into the nitty-gritty of factor analysis and its use and misuse: esmitemrepositoryinfo.com/blog-posts #Measurement #ExperienceSamplingMethod
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Only 2 more days to register at the early bird rate for #SAA2025. We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Leuven!
📣 Hi ESM enthusiasts! We would like to remind you that the early bird registration deadline is fast approaching! You have until Friday 4 April (23:59 CET) to register at early bird rate for #SAA2025 📣
April 2, 2025 at 6:04 AM
Only 2 more days to register at the early bird rate for #SAA2025. We are very much looking forward to seeing you in Leuven!
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📣 Hi ESM enthusiasts! We would like to remind you that the early bird registration deadline is fast approaching! You have until Friday 4 April (23:59 CET) to register at early bird rate for #SAA2025 📣
April 1, 2025 at 10:26 AM
📣 Hi ESM enthusiasts! We would like to remind you that the early bird registration deadline is fast approaching! You have until Friday 4 April (23:59 CET) to register at early bird rate for #SAA2025 📣
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Can #ESM / #EMA boost awareness, insight, coping and alliance in psychotherapy? New work by @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social that investigates this via qualitative patient interviews:
Link: doi.org/10.1080/0963...
Link: doi.org/10.1080/0963...
March 31, 2025 at 6:58 AM
Can #ESM / #EMA boost awareness, insight, coping and alliance in psychotherapy? New work by @ccp-kuleuven.bsky.social that investigates this via qualitative patient interviews:
Link: doi.org/10.1080/0963...
Link: doi.org/10.1080/0963...
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Interested in #ESM research? @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social and @ginettelafit.bsky.social are organizing an #OpenScience for ESM Course, taking place on Friday, 30th May 2025. Topics: transparent reporting, open materials, code, data and preregistration. Website: gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/rese...
Open Science For ESM Course
gbiomed.kuleuven.be
March 24, 2025 at 7:06 PM
Interested in #ESM research? @oliviajkirtley.bsky.social and @ginettelafit.bsky.social are organizing an #OpenScience for ESM Course, taking place on Friday, 30th May 2025. Topics: transparent reporting, open materials, code, data and preregistration. Website: gbiomed.kuleuven.be/english/rese...