Psychological mechanisms Blog Posts

• Psychedelics and mental health: Can the field deliver on its promise?

  09 Jul 2025

  • Anna Zecharia

  
• Exposing how exposure works: expectancy change is crucial for successful exposure treatment

  30 Apr 2024

  • Rena Gatzounis

  
• Self-harm in autistic people: meta-analysis confirms higher risk compared to non-autistic people

  24 Aug 2022

  • Mirabel Pelton

  
• Self-disclosure and social media: review identifies two-way relationship with mental health #ActiveIngredientsMH

  09 Mar 2022

  • Pattie Gonsalves

  
• Why doesn’t parent involvement help treat children with anxiety?

  11 Jan 2022

  • Jeanne Wolstencroft

  
• Parental loss and grief in childhood linked to an increased risk of depression in adulthood #ActiveIngredientsMH

  17 Dec 2021

  • Lauren Breen

  
• Repetitive negative thinking: an important clinical target for the treatment of depression and anxiety? #ActiveIngredientsMH

  27 Oct 2020

  • Imogen Bell

  
• The Lancet Psychiatry Commission on psychological treatments #SeeingFurther

  19 Mar 2018

  • Ioana Cristea

  
• iCBT for depression: how does it work?

  22 Nov 2016

  • Mark Smith

  
• Trauma and psychotic symptoms: clear association, but do we really understand why?

  11 Nov 2016

  • UCL Psychiatry MSc