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Tell me what you want, what you really really want: lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures

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Laura Hemming explores a new systematic review out today in The Lancet Psychiatry, which stresses the importance of involving of people with lived experience of mental health disorders in co-developing research outcome measures.

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Peer support interventions delivered by paid peer and family workers: an umbrella review

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Magenta Simmons and Belle Boland consider an umbrella review on the effectiveness and implementation of peer support interventions in mental health.

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Mental healthcare for ethnic minority groups: a call for substantial change

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KCL Masters student Xinxin Qiu discusses a recent study about improving mental healthcare access and experiences for ethnically minoritised people in the UK.

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Unjust: how inequality and mental health intertwine

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Andy Bell reflects on a recent peer research study and shares the steps that any mental health service can take to help people reclaim their rights, their personhood, and their equal citizenship.

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Doing our part as citizens: citizen science in mental health research

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Laura Hemming summarises a systematic review that synthesises and develops best practice guidelines for citizen science in mental health research.

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The impact of bureaucracy on social work practice

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This paper presents the methodology and findings of a systematic review of the available evidence relating to social workers experience of bureaucracy in practice. The study is international, and includes English Language papers published in peer reviewed journals between 1990 and 2020.

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Menopause in the workplace revisited: A feminist perspective and a visit to the Employment Tribunal (ET)

If you go down to the woods today, you’ll find us discussing the last of our World Menopause Day 2023 papers

For the last in our World Menopause Day 2023 series, we are combining a paper and some recent case law, to think about some of the things that have been discussed this week through these blog posts.

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Can hearing interventions slow down cognitive decline?

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In this blog, Daisy Long and the elf apprentices that took part in the woodland workshop undertook a group critical analysis on Lin, F.R., Pike, J.R., Albert. M.S., Arnold, M., Burgard, S., Chisolm, T. & others (2023) paper on Hearing intervention versus health education control to reduce cognitive decline in older adults with hearing loss in the USA (ACHIEVE): a multi-centre, randomized controlled trial.

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How do people experience avoidable harm in mental health social care?

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Andie Ashdown summarises a scoping review on service users’ experiences of social and psychological avoidable harm in mental health social care in England.

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What are the benefits of including young people in mental health research? Findings from interviews conducted by co-researchers

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In her debut blog, Melanie Luximon writes with Nina Higson-Sweeney to summarise a recent qualitative study exploring the benefits of involving young people in mental health research.

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