Climate change is reshaping not just the planet but our emotional lives. Could solastalgia (“solace” (comfort) and “nostalgia” (homesickness)) be a key pathway linking environmental loss to mental distress? This new scoping review of global studies investigates.
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The UPSIDES trial demonstrates that peer support is effective across diverse global contexts, from high-income to low-income countries. While overall social inclusion scores didn’t reach significance, participants showed reduced isolation and increased empowerment and hope. This landmark study proves peer support can be successfully adapted to different cultural settings while maintaining core recovery-oriented principles.
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Fragmented systems leave many homeless women with severe mental illness excluded from care, re-traumatised, and at risk. This study developed a gender-sensitive housing model that integrates tertiary care, transitional homes, and community reintegration; centring dignity, safety, and recovery.
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Shuichi Suetani and Jon Paul Teo consider a new systematic review, which highlights the significant stigma faced by people with psychosis and their families in Middle Eastern communities, and suggests culturally sensitive ways forward.
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Shuwen Su, a MSc Global Mental Health student from the University of Glasgow, summarises an epidemiological study that estimates the global prevalence and years lived with disability associated with mental health disorders and substance use disorders in young people aged 5-24 years old.
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Izah Bowes considers a cross-sectional study exploring urbanicity and rates of untreated psychotic disorders in three diverse settings in the Global South: Trinidad, India and Nigeria.
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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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Clarissa Giebel summarises a recent review global cohort studies, which asks the question – is dementia on the downturn, and are the risks the same in high-income or low to middle income countries?
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Rasanat Fatima Nawaz and Hayley Gains summarise a scoping review exploring the impact of war on Palestinian children and young people residing in the Gaza Strip.
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Sophie Fairweather explores a recent paper which suggests that the inflammatory cytokines IL-2 and IL-6 are associated with both the risk of developing depression, and with depression severity, although this relationship is modified by sex.
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