Ellie Davis highlights a retrospective cohort study that explored eating disorder treatment outcomes between transgender, gender diverse and cisgender adolescents.
[read the full story...]ARFID outcomes: new research suggests that avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder is a persistent and distinct eating disorder
Georgie Parker summarises a prospective 2-year longitudinal cohort study investigating the course and predictors of outcome in avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) in young people.
[read the full story...]Digital self-help for bulimia recovery: encouraging results for waiting list management
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.
[read the full story...]New and emerging treatments for major depressive disorder
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’.
[read the full story...]The great unknown? Assessing suicide risk in trials of psychological interventions for depression
Derek de Beurs explores a meta-analysis which finds that randomised controlled trials of psychological interventions for depression rarely report assessments of suicide.
[read the full story...]Beating the odds in recovery: does employment support benefit the outcomes of psychological therapy?
Lucy Chilton and Sarah Watts summarise a case-control study looking at the effectiveness of employment support in combination with psychological therapies within NHS Talking Therapies.
[read the full story...]Digital CBT can help people with depression or anxiety and comorbid long-term medical conditions
Stephanie Loukieh summarises the COMPASS trial, which presents promising results for digitally delivered CBT for depression and anxiety related to living with a long-term physical health condition.
[read the full story...]Prisonization: how does prison impact on the mental health of prisoners? Insights from Norway
Verity Wainwright explores a qualitative study from Norway, which looks into prisoners understanding of mental health and the prison environment.
[read the full story...]Thinking transdiagnostically about PTSD, depression and anxiety in US first responders
Olga Lainidi summarises a network analysis exploring the interconnecting symptoms between PTSD, generalised anxiety disorder, and depression among First Responders based in the United States.
[read the full story...]Trauma affects how refugees feel about themselves and others, but how can clinicians help?
UCL MSc students consider a longitudinal study published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, which explores the underlying cognitive mechanisms that could explain the association between trauma exposure, mental health and social engagement in refugees.
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