Joining the dots: how can we support all young people to seek help for their mental health problems?

Featured

In her debut blog, Vanessa Bennett looks at a systematic review which examines barriers, facilitators and interventions for help-seeking in adolescents, and describes her Emerging Minds placement on characterising peer-support via the Childline online message-boards.

[read the full story...]

“I mean, what is depression?” How GPs distinguish between emotional distress and depressive disorder

jorge-salvador-kpYMcyZ2qbY-unsplash

Linda Gask reviews a recent qualitative exploration of UK general practitioners’ perceptions of distinctions between emotional distress and depression.

[read the full story...]

Bipolar disorder and distress: systematic review of first-person accounts

caleb-george-260469-unsplash

A group of UCL Mental Health Masters Students summarise a meta-synthesis of qualitative research, which looks at what people diagnosed with bipolar disorder experience as distressing.

[read the full story...]

Emotional distress in dementia: qualitative systematic review

jeremy-wong-298986-unsplash

Hilary Shepherd examines a qualitative systematic review that aimed to present all available descriptions of emotional distress and explanations for emotional distress experienced by people with dementia, articulated personally and by others.

[read the full story...]