Camilla Babbage and Maria Loades summarise the largest meta-analysis to date on the effectiveness of CBT for depression.
[read the full story...]Is cognitive behavioural therapy the best we’ve got for depression?
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Adolescent depression is not the same as adult depression: new systematic review focuses on adolescents’ lived experiences
Nina Higson-Sweeney reflects on the findings of a recent systematic review looking at the lived experience of adolescent depression, which has important implications for anyone supporting young people at risk of depression.
[read the full story...]Do psychotherapies help children or adolescents with subclinical depression?
David Hallford summarises a meta-analysis of psychotherapies for subthreshold depression, which suggests they may have positive acute effects in adolescents, but are not effective in children less than 12 years of age.
[read the full story...]Virtual reality for mental health: are there any freely available apps that show promise?
Imogen Bell summarises a recent review of virtual reality experiences as tools to support mental health therapy, which finds some freely available applications that may show promise for mental health.
[read the full story...]Mood changes during art workshops: what can they teach us?
Lorna Collins reviews a novel study which uses an experience sampling method to track momentary wellbeing over the course of an arts on prescription scheme, to predict changes in global wellbeing for people with anxiety and depression.
[read the full story...]“I mean, what is depression?” How GPs distinguish between emotional distress and depressive disorder
Linda Gask reviews a recent qualitative exploration of UK general practitioners’ perceptions of distinctions between emotional distress and depression.
[read the full story...]Longer adolescent duration of worry and low mood predicts problems in adulthood: suggests early intervention important
Adolescent mental health problems are the cause of deep distress to hundreds of thousands of teenagers in the UK. Young Minds estimates that 850,000 children and young people in the UK have a diagnosed mental health problem, and many more may be suffering in silence. Statistics on how likely it is that an adolescent with [read the full story…]