Aslihan Baser summarises a systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the risk for developing anxiety disorders in children whose parents experience mood disorders.
[read the full story...]What’s the best approach for managing social disability in young people with emerging severe mental illness?
Zoe Hunter and Derek Tracy summarise a new RCT on social recovery therapy out today in the British Journal of Psychiatry, which investigates how to prevent and treat social disability in young people with emerging severe mental illness.
[read the full story...]IAPT: does improved access lead to increased complexity?
Mark Smith presents the early findings of the PROMPT naturalistic cohort study, which looks at the clinical characteristics of patients assessed within an Improving Access to Psychological Therapies (IAPT) service.
[read the full story...]Psychiatric disorders: what’s the significance of non-random mating?
Marcus Munafo considers the implications of a recent Swedish population study, which explores patterns of non-random mating within and across 11 major psychiatric disorders.
[read the full story...]Are Internet interventions cost-effective for mental health?
Chris Sampson looks at a systematic review of the economics of Internet interventions for common mental health problems such as depression and anxiety.
[read the full story...]Lifetime prevalence of anxiety disorders in people with bipolar disorder
Alan Underwood appraises a recent meta-analysis that finds anxiety disorders are three times more common in people with a diagnosis of bipolar disorder.
[read the full story...]Experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment for studying anxiety disorders
Alan Underwood publishes his debut Mental Elf blog on a narrative review of experience sampling and ecological momentary assessment for studying the lives of people with anxiety disorders.
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