Jess is a recent BSc Psychology graduate from King’s College London. Very passionate about women’s mental health, ...

Brief Admission allows people with BPD to self-refer for short respite stays, offering a person-centred alternative to ...

Cunliffe reviews a systematic review finding that people with severe mental illness have a higher risk of respiratory ...

Susie is a PhD researcher in the Integrative Epidemiology Unit at the University of Bristol. Before beginning a career in ...

Distressing images are common for people with experiences of psychosis but interventions are limited - iMPAS provides grounds for therapeutic optimism.

Elaine Flores considers a systematic scoping review examining solastalgia and associated mental health outcomes across ...

Brief Admission allows people with BPD to self-refer for short respite stays, offering a person-centred alternative to ...

In her debut blog, Jessica Davies explores eight key recommendations for trauma-informed care in perinatal mental health ...

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.

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 ...

Natalia is a PhD researcher in Psychology at the University of Bath where she is developing an online, single-session intervention for parents of adolescents with depression. She is interested in ...

Over the past decade there has been huge interest in the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain function and mental health (as covered in these previous Mental Elf blogs: Murray, 2024; Clarke, ...