Can compassion focused therapy groups support people in CMHTs?

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Small service evaluation of compassion-focused therapy groups in two CMHTs found some participants improved on self-compassion and depression measures. Findings preliminary, not evidence of effectiveness.

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The other side of postnatal depression: what about Dads?

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Demetra Christodoulou reviews a new randomised controlled trial from Pakistan testing “Learning Through Play Plus Dads”: a group parenting programme designed to support fathers with postnatal depression.

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Individual, group and guided self-help CBT for panic disorder: most delivery formats equally effective, but more evidence needed

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Hannah Wallace summarises a network meta-analysis comparing four different formats of CBT for panic disorder, which finds “no efficacy differences between CBT delivered as guided self-help, or in the face-to-face individual or group format in the treatment of panic disorder”.

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