New evidence shows Melodies for Mums outperforms standard community activities in reducing postnatal depression, with sustained effects lasting six months after the singing ends.
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DDD affects around 2% of people but has no approved treatment. A new feasibility trial asks whether CBT-f-DDD could change that.
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If NHS Talking Therapies work so well, why are recovery rates lower for young adults? Saunders and colleagues analysed data from 1.5 million people to find out, and the results show an urgent need to rethink how we support young people in distress.
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A large NHS trial found that the Circle of Security parenting programme did not outperform treatment-as-usual for parents experiencing perinatal mental health difficulties. But does this mean we should stop offering it?
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CBT is a cornerstone of mental health care, but how well does it really work across different disorders? This massive new meta-analysis offers some answers and raises new questions.
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KCL MSc student Yunyi Chen explores a study on the effectiveness of psychodynamic therapy in an NHS service for service-users with complex mental health needs, with promising findings that span over a decade of work.
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KCL MSc student Yi Ye reflects on a study evaluating the adaptation of low-intensity cognitive behavioural therapy for autistic adults in NHS Talking Therapies.
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Alexis An Yee Low considers a systematic review published in The Lancet Psychiatry which highlights the effectiveness of preventive psychological interventions for subthreshold depressive symptoms.
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Olga Lainidi blogs a recent systematic review, which suggests that organisation-level interventions including job and task modifications, create the most benefit to reducing burnout and difficulty with mental health for healthcare workers in a variety of settings.
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Pauline Rivart summarises a national cohort study of ethnicity and suicide in England and Wales, which presents a “paradoxical finding of a lower rate of suicide in almost all minority ethnic groups compared with the White British majority”.
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