Sarah Steeg reviews the new trauma-informed guidance for healthcare workers, developed by the COVID Trauma Response Working Group from UCL and the Camden and Islington NHS Trust. The guidance aims to provide a coordinated, trauma-informed and evidence-based psychological response to the COVID outbreak.
[read the full story...]Preventing depression: what do we need to succeed?
Can we prevent depression globally? Emma Corcoran, Molly Bird and Natalie Shoham summarise a recent review that considers what is needed to eradicate the worldwide depression epidemic, and why.
[read the full story...]Mental illness in clinical psychologists: stigma stops people from seeking help
Dafni Katsampa considers how mental health problems can affect clinical psychologists, and the impact that stigma has on disclosure and help-seeking.
[read the full story...]Long term recovery and resilience in psychosis: the iHOPE-20 study
A group of UCL Mental Health Masters students summarise the iHOPE-20 study, which looks at relationships between and prospective predictors of remission, clinical recovery, personal recovery and resilience 20 years on from a first episode psychosis.
[read the full story...]Universal resilience: could it be the answer?
Lucinda Powell summarises a systematic review of universal resilience-focused interventions targeting child and adolescent mental health in the school setting.
[read the full story...]Resilience to depression: neural markers in adolescent at-risk females
Matthew Broome appraises a recent cohort study that looks at neural markers of resilience in young women at familial risk for major depressive disorder.
[read the full story...]Adolescent friendships predict later resilient functioning
Simon Brett looks at a recent study in Psychological Medicine which suggests that adolescent friendships predict later resilient functioning across psychosocial domains in a healthy community cohort, whereas family support does not predict later resilience.
[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...]Memory lane: the road to recovery in depression?
Becci Strawbridge explores a prospective cohort study that looks at variation in the recall of socially rewarding information and depressive symptom severity.
[read the full story...]What influences physical and mental health-related quality of life for LGBT older people?
Sarah Carr explores a US study on what is associated with physical and mental health-related quality of life for older LGBT people.
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