Vanessa Coeli summarises the PRIDE study on the experiences of conversion practices and mental health symptoms in sexual and gender minority adults in the US.
[read the full story...]Psychotropic medication during pregnancy: new umbrella review finds no convincing evidence of adverse health outcomes for the baby
Flo Martin summarises a recent umbrella review which finds that we still have limited knowledge about the safety of psychotropic drug use in pregnancy.
[read the full story...]The impact of risk management on recovery in psychiatric hospitals: a patient-centred study
Sahar Seidl summarises a qualitative study on the ontological insecurity of inattentiveness, which looks at how risk management processes in acute psychiatric care can have a negative impact on patient recovery.
[read the full story...]The impact of calorie labelling on menus for individuals with eating disorders
Lucy Hyam discusses a qualitative study that explored the impact of calorie labelling on menus for individuals with current or past experience of eating disorders.
[read the full story...]Understanding maladaptive exercise in adolescence: who is at risk and why?
Caroline Touzeau and Caitlin Lloyd blog about a recent longitudinal cohort study that investigated patterns of maladaptive exercise in young people, which supports “re-framing motivations for exercise in youth away from weight loss at a population level”.
[read the full story...]How do people experience avoidable harm in mental health social care?
Andie Ashdown summarises a scoping review on service users’ experiences of social and psychological avoidable harm in mental health social care in England.
[read the full story...]Sharpening the focus: viewing self-harm images online – harmful and protective?
Jo Lockwood, Camilla Babbage and Ellen Townsend consider a systematic review exploring the impact of viewing self-harm images online, which finds that images can trigger powerful emotions and may relate to a change in cognition, affect and behaviour.
[read the full story...]Care or punishment? Black service users’ experiences of inpatient mental health care under detention
Ian Cummins summarises findings from a recent qualitative study by Solanki et al. (2023), which explores the experiences of individuals from Black Ethnic backgrounds detained under the Mental Health Act (1983).
[read the full story...]Does a diagnosis of borderline personality disorder help or harm? #BIGSPD23
As we prepare for #BIGSPD23 in Glasgow (starting tomorrow), a psychiatrist and mental health occupational therapist explore a review of stigma occurring as a result of a borderline personality disorder diagnosis, coming to their own conclusions on the key messages.
[read the full story...]Talking to young people about online safety: the who, what, when and how
In his debut blog, Luke Bayliss explores a Delphi study that will help mental health practitioners to converse with young people about their online activities and impact on mental health.
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