Sophie Carlisle covers a qualitative study finding that older adults do not associate their mental health difficulties with ...

Sam Woodnutt and Jasmine Snowden blog a study which uses hospital data to explore rates of headbanging as a form of self-harm ...

Are hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders linked to deeper beliefs formed in childhood? This study found that early ...

This large-scale quality improvement project across 55 mental health wards tested Board Relay, Zonal Observations, and Life ...

Margaret is a Psychology student at Loughborough University. She is currently on placement with Child and Adolescent ...

Phil is a Mental Health Nurse Consultant on a male adult acute psychiatric admission ward in the North East of England. He ...

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.

Violence against women is a major human rights violation that affects one in three women worldwide and has profound and overlapping impacts on women’s physical and mental health (World Health ...

If we go back over a century to Bleuler’s four “A’s” of schizophrenia (ambivalence, autism, affective incongruity, and association disturbances) (Bleuler, 1911) it is not hard to see a place for ...

In my clinical work some of the most challenging patients to manage are those with ‘treatment resistant depression‘ and unfortunately up to 30% of people with a diagnosis of major depressive disorder ...

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 ...