CBT for psychosis is an established and evolving psychological therapy. Historical controversies about the nature of psychosis persist, and more recent debates about the outcome literature lack precision, muddying the waters further. Based on our experience as clinicians, teachers and supervisors, and following NHS and national lead roles, we describe ten common misconceptions about CBT for psychosis. These include misconceptions about the evidence, the focus of therapy, ‘thinking positively’, and the nature of collaboration and the therapeutic relationship. We refute these misconceptions based on current theory, research, and best practice guidelines. We highlight the need to get out of the clinic room, measure the impact of therapy on personal recovery and autonomy, and meet training and governance requirements. It is essential that clinicians, service leads, and our professional bodies uphold core standards of care if people with psychosis are to have access to high quality CBT of the standard we would be happy to see offered to our own family and friends.

Key learning aims

1. (1) To recognise common misconceptions about CBT for psychosis.

2. (2) To counter these misconceptions theoretically and empirically – to inform ourselves, colleagues and service leads committed to ensuring high quality CBT for psychosis.

3. (3) To highlight statutory and professional body responsibilities to ensure parity of esteem for people with psychosis, who deserve high quality, ‘full dose’ treatments delivered by appropriately trained clinicians, and supported by robust governance systems, just as we would expect for people with physical health conditions.

We develop a powerful tool for embedding any tree poset P of height k in the Boolean lattice which allows us to solve several open problems in the area. We show that:

• • If $\mathcal {F}$ is a family in $\mathcal {B}_n$ with $|\mathcal {F}|\ge (q-1+\varepsilon ){n\choose \lfloor n/2\rfloor }$ for some $q\ge k$, then $\mathcal {F}$ contains on the order of as many induced copies of P as is contained in the q middle layers of the Boolean lattice. This generalizes results of Bukh [9] and Boehnlein and Jiang [8] which guaranteed a single such copy in non-induced and induced settings, respectively.

• • The number of induced P-free families of $\mathcal {B}_n$ is $2^{(k-1+o(1)){n\choose \lfloor n/2\rfloor }}$, strengthening recent independent work of Balogh, Garcia, and Wigal [1] who obtained the same bounds in the non-induced setting.

• • The largest induced P-free subset of a p-random subset of $\mathcal {B}_n$ for $p\gg n^{-1}$ has size at most $(k-1+o(1))p{n\choose \lfloor n/2\rfloor }$, generalizing previous work of Balogh, Mycroft, and Treglown [4] and of Collares and Morris [10] for the case when P is a chain.

All three results are asymptotically tight and give affirmative answers to general conjectures of Gerbner, Nagy, Patkós, and Vizer [18] in the case of tree posets.

The manufacturing industry, notably the aeronautics sector, involves tasks presenting risks of low back pain. One of the preventive strategies could be the use of passive back exoskeletons, which have demonstrated benefits during activities involving trunk bending. This study aims to evaluate the effects of four passive back exoskeletons on trunk neuromuscular activity, kinematics, and perceived discomfort during polishing tasks simulated in a laboratory setting. Nineteen participants performed four tasks (two static bending tasks and two load-carrying tasks) without and with two soft (CORFOR and BionicBack) and two rigid (BackX and Laevo FLEX) exoskeletons. The results showed varying effects depending on the tested exoskeleton model, beyond the distinction between rigid and soft designs. Reductions in lumbar erector spinae (LES) neuromuscular activity were observed with Laevo FLEX and CORFOR during static tasks compared to the condition without exoskeleton (8–18%; p < .05). However, reductions in LES muscle activity were not significant during load carrying. Biceps femoris neuromuscular activity was significantly lower in the four tasks when using the Laevo FLEX, with reductions ranging from 8 to 17% (p < .01). The two rigid exoskeletons decreased perceived back discomfort across all tasks (p < .05). Finally, the BionicBack exoskeleton significantly altered participants’ kinematics across all four tasks, reducing both trunk range of motion and average flexion (p < .05). The Laevo FLEX exoskeleton was the only one to significantly reduce both neuromuscular activity and perceived back discomfort, while causing no adverse effects, appearing advantageous when polishing in the aeronautical industry.

The 2017 French Law on the Duty of Vigilance of Parent and Lead Companies has been hailed as a pioneering national legislation to hold corporations accountable for human rights and environmental abuses. Most lawsuits brought under this law have faced a plethora of admissibility objections, and so far, only one case has resulted in a decision on the merits. Initial formalistic court decisions on admissibility have now been mostly dismissed. However, critical questions around the role and powers entrusted to judges under the law remain contested.

This study examines how individualism influences patriarchal gender norms across 93 countries, using data from the Integrated Values Surveys. We hypothesize that individualism, emphasizing personal autonomy and egalitarian values, reduces patriarchal attitudes directly and indirectly through formal institutions. Our findings reveal a robust negative association between individualism and patriarchal attitudes, with a one-standard deviation increase in individualism linked to a 0.78 standard deviation decrease in patriarchal attitudes. This association holds across various controls and instrumental variable techniques addressing endogeneity. Mediation analysis shows that institutions, particularly liberal democracy and legal gender parity, mediate 5% to 37% of this association. These results underscore individualism’s role in promoting egalitarian gender norms and suggest that culturally aligned institutional reforms, such as strengthening women’s economic rights or democratic participation, can amplify these effects.

Redistricting is often a hotly contested affair within states as the party in power attempts to maximize its chances for electoral success through injecting partisanship into the process. Previous works have evaluated how different redistricting practices can influence elections, but little is known about how redistricting can impact citizen attitudes toward government. Using an original survey with a unique experiment, we evaluate the relationship between how redistricting is performed and how satisfied citizens are with the state of democracy in the United States. We find that the mere perception of redistricting being done in a partisan manner leads to decreased levels of system support. Furthermore, our models show that independent redistricting commissions tend to reduce the perceived prevalence of gerrymandering and boost citizens’ evaluations of the democratic process.

How might international society serve as an ontological security provider? Ontological security studies sees societies as both containers of anxiety and providers of security, but there is little research on how international society relates to this. Any answer to my question is further complicated by multiple takes (Lacanian, Kleinian, and Winnicottian) on the way the subject secures its self. I demonstrate how this multiplicity is accommodated by the conceptual heterogeneity of the ‘English School’ and offer three separate answers. Lacanian theory suggests a ‘pluralist’ international society can mitigate ontological insecurity because its institutions encircle ‘the lack’ that constitutes (collective) subjectivity. Kleinian theory supports the institutions of a ‘thin solidarist’ international society because it demonstrates how the collective action needed to protect the legal rights that recognise and secure the (collective) self does not necessarily cause anxiety. Drawing on Winnicott, Honneth argues that the (collective) self can only be fully secured if the institutions of a ‘thick solidarist’ international society go beyond legal recognition to socially esteem the contribution the subject makes to realising the common good. The analytical framework is applied to interpret and respond to Russia’s invasion of Ukraine, offering a timely intervention into debates on a post-liberal international order.

A non-uniqueness phase for infinite clusters is proven for a class of marked random connection models (RCMs) on the d-dimensional hyperbolic space, ${\mathbb{H}^d}$, in a high volume-scaling regime. The approach taken in this paper utilizes the spherical transform on ${\mathbb{H}^d}$ to diagonalize convolution by the adjacency function and the two-point function and bound their $L^2\to L^2$ operator norms. Under some circumstances, this spherical transform approach also provides bounds on the triangle diagram that allows for a derivation of certain mean-field critical exponents. In particular, the results are applied to some Boolean and weight-dependent hyperbolic RCMs. While most of the paper is concerned with the high volume-scaling regime, the existence of the non-uniqueness phase is also proven without this scaling for some RCMs whose resulting graphs are almost surely not locally finite.

In this multicenter cross-sectional study of two different approaches to universal SARS-CoV-2 admission testing, hybrid testing (SARS-CoV-2 for asymptomatic and multiplex for symptomatic) resulted in increased isolation days due to ordering errors among symptomatic patients. Universal multiplex testing minimized such errors while detection of asymptomatic non-SARS-CoV-2 viruses remained infrequent.

In recent years, prominent Republican elites have instituted statewide migrant transportation programs in which asylum-seeking migrants are “bused” to liberal cities across the country. These programs are often justified by invoking NIMBYism (not-in-my-backyard), suggesting that when people must consider the effects of immigration policy in terms of their community, their attitudes toward immigrants will vary. Despite this, extant scholarship has yet to document the extent to which American immigration preferences vary by spatial scale and gives no expectation about how important any variation is relative to other determinants of immigration attitudes. Findings from a conjoint experiment reveal that Americans, on average, oppose immigrants proposed to move into their neighborhoods, but spatial scale does not alter considerations at the national, state, or city level. The relative importance of this NIMBY effect, however, is modest compared to a host of other individual-level characteristics of an immigrant. Moreover, despite elite claims of “liberal hypocrisy” in immigration, we find no evidence that the NIMBY effect varies by partisanship. Both Democrats and Republicans exhibit modest preferences against immigrants expected to move to their neighborhoods.

Indigenous communities have long been marginalized and underrepresented in democracies, yet we know little about how publics evaluate Indigenous people who are thinking of running as candidates. Using two experimental surveys with nationally representative samples of Australian adults, we examine how citizens assess the personality traits of eight women and men who are interested in running for office. All eight have identical biographies, other than the fact that they are from White, Chinese, and both dark-skinned and light-skinned Indigenous Australian backgrounds. Surprisingly, we find an inverted hierarchy of bias, moderated by respondent ideology, in which darker-skinned Indigenous potential candidates fare better than all others. Although this may be due to a positive violation of expectations, our results have implications for theories about how people view Indigenous and ethnic minority aspirant politicians. They also point to the need for further research globally into how the public and parties evaluate Indigenous candidates.