Tamsin Ford asks what outcomes count, when it comes to measuring adolescent depression?
[read the full story...]Depression in young people: are we researching what matters most?
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Infant-feeding behaviours: Can PSAS scores predict the recipe for success?
Melisa Selvaratnam summarises a study on postpartum-specific anxiety as a predictor of infant-feeding outcomes and perceptions of infant-feeding behaviours.
[read the full story...]Higher body mass index is associated with a lower subjective wellbeing
Benjamin Janaway explores a recent mendelian randomisation study that looks at the causal effects between subjective wellbeing and cardiometabolic health.
[read the full story...]Is self-management ready for the mental health mainstream?
Josefien Breedvelt and Peter Coventry explore a new systematic review and meta-analysis of self-management interventions for people with severe mental illness.
[read the full story...]What’s the relationship between adolescent depression and adult depression?
Katie Finning writes her debut elf blog on a recent systematic review which looks at adult mental health outcomes of adolescent depression; including depression, anxiety and suicidality in adults.
[read the full story...]Psychotherapy for adult depression: is it as good as it’s cracked up to be?
Ellie Gant summarises a meta-analysis that asks: Was Eysenck right after all? A reassessment of the effects of psychotherapy for adult depression. The paper suggests that we seriously overestimate the benefits of psychotherapy by including biased trials in meta-analyses, and that there’s insufficient reliable research to be certain about the effectiveness of problem-solving therapy, interpersonal psychotherapy and behavioural activation.
[read the full story...]Cognitive biases in adolescent depression: the more you have, the worse you feel
Maria Loades explores a cross-sectional study of the combined influence of cognitions in adolescent depression, which investigates biases of interpretation, self-evaluation and memory, and concludes that a negative evaluation of the self is strongly associated with depression severity and with a diagnosis of depression.
[read the full story...]Teenage depression linked to poor psychological and social outcomes in later life
Maria Loades writes her debut elf blog on a recent systematic review and meta-analysis on the long-term psychosocial outcomes of teenage depression, which finds that depression as a youth is linked to poor academic outcomes, unemployment and problems with relationships in adult life.
[read the full story...]How can psychedelics treat mental illness? #PsilocybinMedicine
Catherine Bird writes her debut elf blog on a recent opinion review by Robin Carhart-Harris entitled: How do psychedelics work?
[read the full story...]How can we prevent depression in young adults?
Mental Health Masters Students from UCL explore a recent systematic review and meta-analysis of interventions to prevent depression in young adults. The review finds some evidence for the effectiveness of preventative interventions in reducing depressive symptoms in young adults, but the evidence in this area remains weak.
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