Katie Marwick on a new UK Biobank study which suggests that the two years either side of the final menstrual period represent a time of small increased risk for new onset bipolar and major depressive disorder.
[read the full story...]On the outside, looking in: sibling experiences of adolescent inpatient mental health care
Lottie Shipp appraises a qualitative study that explored young people’s experiences of their sibling being admitted to a mental health inpatient unit.
[read the full story...]Do eating disorder treatment outcomes differ between transgender, gender diverse and cisgender adolescents?
Ellie Davis highlights a retrospective cohort study that explored eating disorder treatment outcomes between transgender, gender diverse and cisgender adolescents.
[read the full story...]What is the role of mentalizing in psychological interventions?
Mentalizing is the human ability to comprehend intentional mental states, such as goals, desires, feelings, and wishes, of both oneself and others. In this blog, Amelia Mullet summarises a systematic review exploring the role of mentalizing in adult psychotherapy.
[read the full story...]Ethnic disparities in suicide mortality: what’s going on?
Pauline Rivart summarises a national cohort study of ethnicity and suicide in England and Wales, which presents a “paradoxical finding of a lower rate of suicide in almost all minority ethnic groups compared with the White British majority”.
[read the full story...]When the clouds clear: the journeys of school psychologists working with gender diverse young people
Vanessa Coeli summarises a qualitative systematic review on the perspectives of school psychologists supporting young gender diverse people.
[read the full story...]Strengthening spousal relationships in dementia: are we there yet?
Gloria Wong summarises a scoping review of psychosocial interventions to enhance the relationships of couples living with dementia.
[read the full story...]ARFID outcomes: new research suggests that avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder is a persistent and distinct eating disorder
Georgie Parker summarises a prospective 2-year longitudinal cohort study investigating the course and predictors of outcome in avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID) in young people.
[read the full story...]Universal DBT intervention in schools: help or hindrance?
Sofiia Kornatska reviews a non-randomised trial exploring a dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) based universal intervention on adolescent social and emotional well-being in Australian schools.
[read the full story...]Cognition and heterogeneity in first-episode psychosis before antipsychotic treatment
Ana Veic looks at an updated systematic review which suggests that patients with psychosis display cognitive difficulties very early in the disease process, and concludes this variation in cognitive function should prompt individual clinical assessments to optimise care.
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