Short-term psychodynamic psychotherapy for all common mental health disorders?
For his ninth Mental Elf blog, Mark Smith reports on a Cochrane systematic review of the effectiveness of short term psychodynamic therapies on common mental health disorders. The post Short-term...
View ArticleMental health therapy for refugee and asylum seeking children: a small...
Laurence Palfreyman considers the very small and mixed evidence base of mental health interventions for refugee and asylum seeking children presented in a well conducted systematic review from last...
View ArticleDo perinatal mental health problems cost the UK £8 billion per year?
A recent report estimated the societal cost of perinatal mental health problems to be £8 billion, but should we believe it? Chris Sampson advises caution. The post Do perinatal mental health problems...
View ArticlePsychotherapy for UK military veterans: demographics and clinical outcomes
Mark Smith reports on a study of psychotherapy for UK military veterans, using an IAPT service, which focuses on the demographic characteristics and clinical outcomes of early service leavers and...
View ArticleSocial determinants of mental health: how our societies are making us...
Mark Horowitz summarises the new WHO and UCL Institute of Health Equity (Michael Marmot) report and research paper on social determinants of mental health. He concludes that it's time to focus on the...
View ArticleChildhood adversity linked to psychotropic drug use in later life
Andrew Jones summarises a large Finnish population-based cohort study, which finds that childhood adversities strongly predict the use of psychotropic drugs (such as antidepressants and antipsychotics)...
View ArticleCognitive bias modification for anxiety and depression: is practice based on...
Sarah McDonald reviews a recent meta-analysis on the efficacy of cognitive bias modification interventions in anxiety and depression, which finds a dearth of reliable research to support the use of...
View ArticlePsychotherapies for anxiety in bipolar disorder
Elena Marcus finds inconclusive results in this recent systematic review of psychological therapy for anxiety in bipolar spectrum disorders, which includes trials of CBT, mindfulness based cognitive...
View ArticleCognitive bias modification for anxiety and depression in children and...
Shirley Reynolds writes her debut Mental Elf blog on a recent meta-analysis of cognitive bias modification (CBM) for anxiety and depression in children and adolescents. The review suggests that, on the...
View ArticleLimited benefits of cognitive bias modification for adolescents: is it time...
Ioana Cristea reviews a recent randomised controlled trial of cognitive bias modification to treat interpretation bias in adolescents. She argues that this new study adds weight to the ascertion that...
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