Jon Paul Teo considers the recently published Lancet Series that brings together evidence on how racism, xenophobia and discrimination can impact on our health.
[read the full story...]Improving access to CBT for people with anxiety: a review of solutions?
In her debut blog, Elli Bouliou reflects on a scoping review exploring ways to improve access to Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for people with anxiety disorders.
[read the full story...]What’s the evidence for community interventions for ‘personality disorder’ (or complex emotional needs)? Not great
Keir Harding and Hollie Berrigan provide a personal outlook on a scoping review exploring the efficacy of community treatments for ‘personality disorder’.
[read the full story...]Should schools use peer mentoring for mental health? New review highlights how little we know
Lucinda Powell summarises a review which finds little evidence to support the use of peer mentoring in schools to improve mental wellbeing.
[read the full story...]What do users think about mental health chatbots?
Rob Meadows and Christine Hine consider the findings of a recent scoping review of the perceptions and opinions of patients about mental health chatbots.
They also present their own ongoing sociological study on the everyday use of mental health chatbots.
[read the full story...]Remote measurement technologies for depression in young people: scalable solution or overplayed potential? #ActiveIngredientsMH
In her debut blog, Annabel Walsh summarises her #ActiveIngredientsMH project which explored the use of remote measurement technologies for depression in children and young people.
[read the full story...]Climate change, young people, and parents: what the papers say about eco-anxiety #COP26 #CAMHScampfire
In his debut blog, Sam McKay explores a review of newspaper articles which identifies several narratives about how young people feel about climate change.
Follow #CAMHScampfire on Twitter at 5pm GMT on Tuesday 9th November for an online journal club discussing these papers. Or sign up now to join the free webinar hosted by ACAMH.
[read the full story...]Mental healthcare for young immigrants and refugees should involve collaboration between schools, communities and families
Sadhbh Byrne summarises a timely scoping review on mental health interventions for immigrant and refugee children and youth living in Canada.
[read the full story...]Young People’s Advisory Groups (YPAGs): how do they work and what impact do they have?
Lindsay Dewa reports on a recent scoping review of Young People’s Advisory Groups in health research, which finds that the voices of young people are still not being meaningfully included in youth health research.
[read the full story...]Enhancing primary care support for informal carers
An informal carer refers to someone who, “provides unpaid help and support to a partner, child, relative, friend or neighbour who could not manage without this help” (Beesley, 2006). Comparatively, people who choose to be carers have a higher quality of life than those who provide care as it is expected of them. Though health [read the full story…]