Cost-effective therapy for postnatal depression in British South Asian Mothers

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Lorna Staines considers recent studies in psychological interventions, to support affordable healthcare for South Asian women with postnatal depression.

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Culturally adapted CBT may lead to recovery from postnatal depression in British South Asian women

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Angelica Tong explores the ROSHNI-2 trial of a culturally adapted CBT programme for postnatal depression in British South Asian women.

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Trauma-informed practice in youth justice

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Alice Dawson and Emma Cormack evaluate an umbrella review on trauma-informed clinical practice in forensic youth settings, which finds that trauma-specific treatments show promise, but they need to be supported by trauma-informed organisations.

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Just how good are different psychotherapies for common mental health problems?

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Lisa Lloyd and Milagros Pallavicini review a recent study on psychotherapies for 8 mental disorders, finding that while most outperform control treatments, response rates remain modest.

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Enhancing mental health care for autistic people: practical adaptations, ready to go

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UCL Masters students explore how mental healthcare can be better tailored for autistic people, highlighting practical strategies from a recent review that services can put into action now.

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Targeting rumination and worry may help with youth anxiety, depression and repetitive negative thinking

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Jenna Jacob summarises a co-produced systematic review and meta-analysis exploring rumination and worry as transdiagnostic targets for mental health interventions in young people.

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Time to ACT for insomnia? New trial finds possible alternative to CBTi

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Nicholas Donnelly considers a recent Brazilian randomised controlled trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for insomnia.

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Childhood adversity and adult depression: Psychoanalysis vs CBT

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Ella Tuominen looks at a study of childhood adversity and ‘treatment resistant depression’ and asks: Can long-term psychoanalytic therapy provide deeper healing for chronic depression than CBT?

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Treatment of harmful gambling in the UK: new review highlights worrying lack of evidence

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Clare Gerada and Ruby Wiltshire summarise a new scoping review of UK-based research on the treatment of harmful gambling, which finds a complete lack of high quality intervention studies to support decision making.

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Which behaviour change techniques make digital interventions for eating disorders effective?

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Rena Gatzounis summarises a review investigating the effectiveness of digital interventions for eating disorders and the behaviour change techniques that lie underneath.

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