Bethany Gill helps us prepare for the #MentalHealthCarers event by summarising a service evaluation of a peer-led psychoeducation programme which aims to improve mental health carers well-being, reduce burden and enrich empowerment.
[read the full story...]After the crisis: self-management and peer-support
Jenny Collom, Maria Giorgalli and Derek Tracy welcome a new RCT published yesterday in The Lancet which demonstrates the benefits of peer-supported self-management for people discharged from a mental health crisis team.
[read the full story...]Conversational agents for mental health apps: now with added artificial empathy
Matthew Bennion reviews two recent studies that sought to develop artificially empathic conversational agents for use in mental health.
[read the full story...]Mental health diagnosis: views and experiences of service users and clinicians
Vanessa Pinfold and Jennie Parker from the McPin Foundation explore a recent systematic review of service user, clinician, and carer perspectives on mental health diagnosis.
[read the full story...]Moderated online social therapy: relapse prevention for youth depression
Sarah Knowles looks at a next-generation social media-based relapse prevention intervention for youth depression, explored in an Australian qualitative study looking at social networking, safety and clinical benefit.
[read the full story...]A hierarchy of stigma based on mental health diagnosis?
Laura Hemming explores a recent qualitative study of the experiences of stigma felt by people with mental health problems who were recruited through a local mental health charity.
[read the full story...]Perinatal depression in mothers: how can treatment help with parenting and child development?
Eloise Stark publishes her debut blog on a recent systematic review, which looks at the effect that treatment for perinatal depression in mothers can have on parenting and child development.
[read the full story...]Youth online discussion forums: how do young people support each other and what do they talk about?
Masters students from the ICH Child and Adolescent Mental Health course explore a recent qualitative study into how young people use the Kooth online discussion forum for emotional and mental health issues.
[read the full story...]Perinatal mental health problems in fathers are common and legitimate, but we need better ways to reach and help them
André Tomlin explores a recent qualitative study of fathers’ views and experiences of their own perinatal mental health, and also shares his own lived experience of postnatal depression and anxiety.
[read the full story...]Peer support for physical health improvement: recovering ‘stolen years’?
Lucy Simons discusses whether peer support interventions can help to provide physical health improvements for people living with severe mental illness.
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