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

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.

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 ...

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 ...

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% ...

Depression is one of the most common mental health disorders worldwide and is also one of the leading causes of disability. For decades, researchers have focused on developing our understanding of ...

Dr Jennifer Dam is a researcher and project manager based in Melbourne, Australia. She holds a PhD in behavioural science (knowledge translation) and is passionate about research communication and ...

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 ...