Coroners have been raising concerns about child suicides for years. The first analysis to synthesise these reports reveals ...

EMDR reduces trauma symptoms in people with personality disorder, even without a formal PTSD diagnosis, a new RCT finds.

Think about the last time you had a bad night of sleep: maybe you snapped at someone you care about over something tiny or felt overwhelmed by emails that would not normally faze you. Then, after a ...

A group of UCL MSc students summarise a prospective cohort study on whether loneliness helps explain the higher risk of ...

Emma Wallace covers a population cohort study finding that homelessness is a risk factor for suicide, independent of mental ...

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.

I am a clinician and visiting researcher collaborating with Professor Andrea Cipriani in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford. My research focuses on evidence synthesis in ...

Stigma towards individuals with mental health conditions such as depression is well documented (Wood et al., 2014) and highly common (see Pattie’s Mental Elf blog on the prevalence of self-stigma in ...

I am an Academic Clinical Fellow in Psychiatry at the University of Bristol, working with the Bristol Suicide and Self-Harm (SASH) group. My current research focuses on understanding how protective ...

“We learn from every natural disaster. Whether it’s a fire or a flood, we learn something from it so we can respond to the next one better”. — Malcolm Turnbull Climate change has increased the ...

With one in six people in the UK affected by Common Mental Disorders (CMDs) like anxiety and depression every week (McManus et al., 2016), improving access to psychological therapies is seen as a ...