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https://dpac.uk.net/2019/03/biopsychosocial-lobby-and-right-wing-media-attack-pwme/

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/the-british-journal-of-psychiatry/article/rise-and-fall-of-the-biopsychosocial-model/A31DAA3BED6569F6080A1DF2C1D15A64/core-reader

I'd put this in a different section, like Advocacy Alerts, or something, but outside of 'ignore this' I'm not sure what action the alert would entail. A lot of people probably should avoid this, as this guy is, along with Edward Shorter, arguably the most abrasive pundit who's ever written a...

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/03/15/opinion/preventing-mental-illness.html This is an opinion piece that endorses the Biopsychosocial model for understanding mental/psychiatric illness. We are primed to react negatively to "BPS" because it is used as an assertion to frame CFS and other 'MUS'...

Review on Central Sensitisation by the Belgian Research team of Nijs et al. Source: https://dtb.bmj.com/content/early/2019/03/11/dtb.2018.000035 Does anyone have access to the paper?

Open Access: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bjhp.12361

Paywalled at https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/behavioural-and-cognitive-psychotherapy/article/implementation-of-stepped-care-for-patients-with-chronic-fatigue-syndrome-in-communitybased-mental-health-care-outcomes-at-posttreatment-and-longterm-followup/842DB10C681E7D7A8725BE0DB8848B07

My aim on this thread is to share the results of my digging into this question over the last couple of days. I have found several papers with very different figures and will post them in a series of posts here. The 52% claim: The UK document, Guidance for commissioners of services for people...

Blaming the victim, all over again: Waddell and Aylward’s biopsychosocial (BPS) model of disability, 2016, Shakespeare et al https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0261018316649120

Persistent Physical Symptoms Multidisciplinary Challenges , Saturday 15th June - Tuesday 18th June 2019 full details here: https://www.rug.nl/research/gradschool-medical-sciences/summerschools/persistent-physical-symptoms/ also at that link " The Summer School will take place in advance of...

Dan Guo 1, Maria Kleinstäuber 2, Malcolm Henry Johnson 3 and Frederick Sundram This research was funded by a grant from the University of Auckland. https://www.mdpi.com/1660-4601/16/5/818/htm As far as I can make out they prefer all MUS (ie CFS,IBS,FM) to be viewed as one syndrome and...

Psychology & Health: Perfectionism and beliefs about emotions in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and their parents: a preliminary investigation in a case control study nested within a cohort Maria E. Loades, Katharine A. Rimes, Kate Lievesley, Sheila Ali & Trudie Chalder Received 18...

As increasingly pw ME/CFS are being referred through IAPT for treatment as MUS I thought I'd set up a separate thread from the ME/CFS Services in UK. " Medically Unexplained Symptoms: Primary Care Intervention University of Sheffield Subject Experts Professor Peter White is Professor of...

Source: Clinical Child Psychology and Psychiatry Preprint Date: February 15, 2019 URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/1359104519829796 Illness perceptions in adolescents with chronic fatigue syndrome and other physical health conditions: Application of the common sense model...

New paper from Andrew Lloyd (of Dubbo studies fame and, more recently, Australia’s leading proponent of the psychosocial school). “The Invisible Burden of Chronic Fatigue in the Community: a Narrative Review” Authors: Scott Fatt, Eric Cvejic, Andrew Lloyd, Ute Vollmer-Conner & Jessica Elise...

Consumer-Contested Evidence: Why the ME/CFS Exercise Dispute Matters So Much A biopsychosocial camp has contended since the 1990s that regardless of how it starts, people with ME/CFS dig themselves into a hole with their attitudes and behaviors, leading to physical deconditioning (sort of the...

Paywalled at: https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/bioe.12559 Full access at: http://sci-hub.tw/10.1111/bioe.12559

How many protocols does this harmful GET trial need exactly? There's 5 on the website now. Is Action for ME supporting this street merging with AYME? They have a clear statement against GET now. Selected GPs are now sending out letters on behalf Crawley et al for any kids aged 11+. For 16 or...

Preview (abstract only) at https://www.researchgate.net/publication/330901648_The_'Cognitive_Behavioural_Model'_of_Chronic_Fatigue_Syndrome_Critique_of_a_Flawed_Model

I'm not exactly sure this is the right subforum for this but it sure doesn't seem like it should go in the biomedical area. Based on a quick skim it seems like a sort of general wellness guide wrapped up in a sort of systems biology packaging, with something like CBT and/or NLP (lots of stuff...