Research Hub
We invite researchers and institutions to turn clearly specified interventions into testable studies. This hub brings together current preprints, manualized interventions and practical routes into research collaboration.
Current preprints
Focused papers that identify a testable question and state the limits of the available evidence.
Could guided affective imagery support emotional access in eating-disorder care?
This paper turns participant diaries from a multicomponent pilot into a focused study question: what changes after guided imagery and before optional movement? It defines what a prospective study should measure without claiming that imagery caused improvement or was an active component.
Research initiatives
Interventions with sufficiently specified materials to support protocol development and study planning.
Manualized intervention
Deep Emotional Stabilization Groups
Deep Emotional Stabilization Groups (DESG) offer a concrete starting point for research collaboration. The implementation kit specifies the session sequence, guide language, facilitator responsibilities, participant materials, consent, safety, referral, adaptation and evaluation.
This manualized structure lets a research team cite a dated kit, define what was delivered, document fidelity and adaptations, and build a reproducible protocol. It does not establish efficacy, safety or a treatment effect.
Research opportunities
- Feasibility and acceptability: Can local teams deliver the sequence responsibly, and how do participants experience it?
- Fidelity and adaptation: Which elements should remain stable, and which language, cultural or setting adaptations are needed?
- Sequence and outcomes: What changes after guided imagery, after later components and over time?
- Safety and reach: What distress, unintended effects or referral needs occur, and whom does the format not reach?
Explore Deep Emotional Stabilization Groups Open the implementation kit on Zenodo
From project evaluation to formal research
The kit's anonymous self-evaluation supports local learning. It is not formal research. A study needs its own protocol, participant information and consent, ethics and data-protection review, outcome and harm measures, and a clear data and publication plan.
A practical sequence starts with co-design, feasibility and safety. If the findings support further study, researchers can move to prospectively registered outcome studies, controlled comparisons, longer follow-up or multisite replication.
DEWA can contribute dated intervention materials and method context. Research partners bring the institutional, ethical, methodological and data-governance framework needed to study them.
Starting point, not conclusion
Existing literature supports the rationale for selected components and implementation choices. It does not directly validate DESG as a complete intervention. How the full format performs in real settings remains an open research question.
Research collaboration
Interested in a study, a protocol discussion or an institutional collaboration?
Reach out to contact@deepemotional.work