Sofiia Kornatska reviews a non-randomised trial exploring a dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) based universal intervention on adolescent social and emotional well-being in Australian schools.
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Ana Veic looks at an updated systematic review which suggests that patients with psychosis display cognitive difficulties very early in the disease process, and concludes this variation in cognitive function should prompt individual clinical assessments to optimise care.
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Niamh Dooley explores a retrospective study of ‘real-world’ data on young people’s use of general practitioners for mental health support.
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Niall Boyce helps us navigate one of the most important and controversial areas in mental health science, as he summarises a recent US review on psychiatric diagnosis.
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In her debut blog, Brittany Oldale collaborates with Sarah Watts to summarise a grounded theory study that sought to create a postvention theory for how to support colleagues’ following a colleague’s suicide within the NHS.
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In her debut blog, Ana Julia Ferreira summarises a randomised controlled trial investigating the effectiveness of a digital self-help intervention for improving bulimic-spectrum disorder symptomatology while on a treatment waiting list.
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Kirsten Lawson summarises a new ‘state of the art review’ in the BMJ which focuses on novel and emerging pharmacotherapy and neuromodulation for people with ‘treatment resistant depression’.
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James Smith summarises a rapid realist review of complex interventions for aggressive challenging behaviour in adults with intellectual disability.
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Derek de Beurs explores a meta-analysis which finds that randomised controlled trials of psychological interventions for depression rarely report assessments of suicide.
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Ian Hamilton summarises a longitudinal survey study of UK youth, which suggests there is an association between social media exposure and use of e-cigarettes and smoking.
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