Trauma-focused therapy for psychosis: helpful for delusions, less so for hallucinations

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A new meta-analysis from Toutountzidis and colleagues finds trauma-focused therapies meaningfully reduce delusions in psychosis, but offer limited benefit for hallucinations. Younger people gain most.

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Can we prevent major depression before it starts? A global review of psychological interventions

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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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Enhancing mental health care for autistic people: practical adaptations, ready to go

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UCL Masters students explore how mental healthcare can be better tailored for autistic people, highlighting practical strategies from a recent review that services can put into action now.

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Time to ACT for insomnia? New trial finds possible alternative to CBTi

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Nicholas Donnelly considers a recent Brazilian randomised controlled trial of Acceptance and Commitment Therapy versus Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for insomnia.

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Peer support interventions delivered by paid peer and family workers: an umbrella review

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Magenta Simmons and Belle Boland consider an umbrella review on the effectiveness and implementation of peer support interventions in mental health.

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How can we help young people feel less lonely? What do young people want?

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Lauren Turner appraises a qualitative study exploring young people’s views on the acceptability and feasibility of youth loneliness interventions.

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Interventions to foster resilience in nursing staff may help (a little) in the short-term

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Olga Lainidi summarises a recent systematic review and meta-analysis investigating the effectiveness of resilience interventions on the mental health of nursing staff.

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A long-term physical health condition changes everything: therapeutic responses to psychological distress must change too #BABCP2022

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Dona Matthews reviews a paper on an evidence-based theory of psychological adjustment to long-term physical health conditions and applications in clinical practice, which will be presented at the #BABCP2022 conference in London later this week.

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Do psychotherapies help children or adolescents with subclinical depression?

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David Hallford summarises a meta-analysis of psychotherapies for subthreshold depression, which suggests they may have positive acute effects in adolescents, but are not effective in children less than 12 years of age.

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How important is understanding perfectionism for reducing depression and anxiety? #BABCP2022

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Alice Potter considers a meta-synthesis of qualitative studies on the link between anxiety, depression, and perfectionism in young people, and the implications for treatment.

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