Katie is an Associate Professor in Public Health within the Department of Primary Care and Public Health at Brighton and ...

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

I completed my integrated Masters degree (MSci) in Psychology at the University of York in 2024, before obtaining ...

Depression, anxiety, and suicidality are higher among LGBTQ+ workers, especially in hostile or unsupportive workplaces. But ...

Self-harm is common among adolescents and a strong predictor of suicide risk. A major new cohort study in the British Journal ...

Could years of commuting through city smog be leaving lasting marks on our brains? A major UK birth cohort study suggests that midlife exposure to nitrogen dioxide and other pollutants may lead to ...

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 ...