A stitch in time: early intervention for young people – promising but patchy evidence

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Two major reviews find early intervention shows promise for youth mental health, but the evidence is stronger for psychosis than for anxiety and depression.

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Can crisis planning reduce repeat sectioning? FINCH feasibility trial

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FINCH trial of 80 people showed crisis planning intervention was feasible to deliver in NHS settings. Results leaned towards fewer repeat detentions, but study not designed to prove effectiveness.

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Peer support interventions delivered by paid peer and family workers: an umbrella review

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Magenta Simmons and Belle Boland consider an umbrella review on the effectiveness and implementation of peer support interventions in mental health.

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Can contingency management help people with psychosis give up cannabis? The CIRCLE trial

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Ian Hamilton summarises the recently published CIRCLE trial, which looks at the clinical and cost-effectiveness of contingency management for cannabis use in early psychosis.

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Diet and depression: can we eat our way out of clinical depression? The ‘SMILES’ trial

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Murtada Alsaif chews over the SMILES RCT of dietary improvement for adults with major depression, which reports encouraging results for healthy diet in people with depression.

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