Rachel Symons summarises a qualitative study on teachers’ aspirations, needs and opinions regarding student mental health support in secondary schools.
[read the full story...]What do teachers need to support student mental health?
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Can arts engagement improve wellbeing for older adults?
Henry Aughterson writes his debut blog about a study of longitudinal associations between short-term, repeated, and sustained arts engagement and well-being outcomes in older adults.
[read the full story...]Youth online discussion forums: how do young people support each other and what do they talk about?
Masters students from the ICH Child and Adolescent Mental Health course explore a recent qualitative study into how young people use the Kooth online discussion forum for emotional and mental health issues.
[read the full story...]Community singing helps mental health recovery
As we prepare for our choral music #MentalHealthJukebox on Saturday 27th January, Liesbeth Tip explores a qualitative evaluation of a Norfolk-based community singing project (Sing Your Heart Out) aimed at people with mental health conditions and the general public.
[read the full story...]The Origins of Happiness: can we predict life satisfaction?
Paul Ramchandani considers the methods, findings and implications of a new book by Andrew E. Clark, Sarah Fleche, Richard Layard, Nattavudh Powdthavee and George Ward, entitled: ‘The Origins of Happiness: The science of well-being over the life course’.
[read the full story...]Can we build cities that aren’t traps for those at risk of mental ill-health?
Mark Brown blogs about the new Urban Mind study, which looks at how smartphones can measure the impact of nature on mental well-being in real time.
[read the full story...]Mindfulness for young people: to meta-analyse or not to meta-analyse?
Sarah McDonald and André Tomlin consider another meta-analysis of mindfulness in young people, which finds “small effect sizes on a range of outcomes”. They conclude that we badly need more RCTs that reliably evaluate the effectiveness, safety and cost effectiveness of mindfulness in young people.
[read the full story...]Mental illness and emotional wellbeing: part of the same continuum?
Lucas Shelemy considers data from the UK Millennium Cohort Study which correlates mental illness with emotional wellbeing in children, and brings back some surprising results.
[read the full story...]Gamification for health and wellbeing
Sasha Danilina publishes her debut blog about a recent literature review on the effectiveness of gamification applied to health and wellbeing.
[read the full story...]Group body psychotherapy for negative symptoms of schizophrenia
Raphael Underwood reports on the findings of a recent RCT of group body psychotherapy for negative symptoms of schizophrenia, which finds that body psychotherapy did not have a clinically beneficial effect on reducing emotional withdrawal or improving social functioning.
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