Karen Mak brings you a bumper edition blog on social prescribing, finding that rates have steadily grown recently in the UK, ...

Katie is an Associate Professor in Public Health within the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Brighton and ...

Depression, anxiety, and suicidality are higher among LGBTQ+ workers, especially in hostile or unsupportive workplaces. But ...

I completed my integrated Masters degree (MSci) in Psychology at the University of York in 2024, before obtaining ...

Self-harm is common among adolescents and a strong predictor of suicide risk. A major new cohort study in the British Journal ...

Inpatient mental health services are meant to provide safe places for people experiencing mental health difficulties to receive support and recover, but for many, the reality is far from this ideal.

Very few areas of medicine have undergone such changes in service design as psychiatry. Providing community care to people with severe mental illness is a challenge, due to the multifaceted ways in ...

The past 50 years has seen globalisation of psychiatric diagnostic (categorical) frameworks. Early versions were notoriously unreliable; when categories are unreliable they cannot be valid, meaning ...

Exercise-based interventions, potentially serving as either alternative treatments for depression or alongside medication and/or therapy, are recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and ...

The aim of my work is to improve outcome for people with complex brain disorders, especially those with psychosis. This implies better understanding of what happens when people develop psychosis and ...

An important characteristic of major depressive disorder (MDD) is that the symptoms can vary quite a bit from patient to patient (Musliner et al. 2016). Additionally, treatment success is patient ...

Edwards et al. (2024) provide an “elf-ing” hand in understanding crisis mental health support for children and young people (CYP)! In England between December 2019 and April 2021, there was a 47% ...