Assessing mental health literacy in Pakistani youth using case-vignettes
This study aims to assess mental health literacy (MHL) in the general population using six case vignettes related to depression, mania, psychosis, conversion disorder (CD), obsessive compulsion disorder (OCD) and post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Each vignette had nine items related to MHL. The sample comprised 4,590 young adults conveniently selected from twin cities in Pakistan. Participants’ responses were converted into percentages and percentiles to find MHL levels.
The men had moderate MHL in depression and inadequate MHL in the remaining five illnesses. The women had adequate MHL in depression and m...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - September 6, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Fayyaz Ahmed Faize
Samreen Idrees
Maheen Sohail Source Type: research
Changing leadership, management and culture in mental health trusts
This study aims to explore how leadership, management practices and organisational cultures have changed in low and high-performing mental health (MH) providers between 2015 and 2020 in the English National Health Service.
The authors used a qualitative case study design comprising a purposeful sample of two low-performing and two high-performing MH providers, based on semi-structured interviews with 60 key informants (mostly internal to the organisation with some external informants from local Clinical Commissioning Groups).
The authors found major differences regarding leadership, management and organisational ...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - September 1, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Frederick Hassan Konteh
Russell Mannion
Rowena Jacobs Source Type: research
Mental health nursing identity: a critical analysis of the UK ’s Nursing and Midwifery Council’s pre-registration syllabus change and subsequent move towards genericism
Mental health nursing identity: a critical analysis of the UK’s Nursing and Midwifery Council’s pre-registration syllabus change and subsequent move towards genericism
Chris Connell, Emma Jones, Michael Haslam, Jayne Firestone, Gill Pope, Christine Thompson
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper aims to explain how and why the philosophical changes to the pre-registration nursing standards by the UK’s Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) have resulted in a paradigm shift for mental health nursing.
This paper critically examines the change...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - August 17, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Chris Connell
Emma Jones
Michael Haslam
Jayne Firestone
Gill Pope
Christine Thompson Source Type: research
An observational study on IAPT waiting times before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic using descriptive time-series data
Patrick Larsson, Russell Lloyd, Emily Taberham, Maggie Rosairo
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The purpose of this paper is to explore waiting times in improving access to psychological therapies (IAPT) services before and throughout the COVID-19 pandemic. The paper aims to help develop a better understanding of waiting times in IAPT so that interventions can be developed to address them.
IAPT national data reports was analysed to determine access and in-treatment waiting times before, during and after the COVID-19 pandemic. Time-series data was ...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - July 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Patrick Larsson
Russell Lloyd
Emily Taberham
Maggie Rosairo Source Type: research
An exploratory study of South Asian women ’s experiences of mental health services in England: a thematic analysis of cultural sensitivity
An exploratory study of South Asian women’s experiences of mental health services in England: a thematic analysis of cultural sensitivity
Lorna Phillips, Panoraia Andriopoulou
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
Despite government and national health service demands for equality within mental health (MH) services, racial inequalities remain. South Asian (SA) women underutilise MH services, yet research regarding their experiences and the cultural sensitivity (CS) of services is sparse. The purpose of this study was to explore the experiences of SA women ...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - July 11, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Lorna Phillips
Panoraia Andriopoulou Source Type: research
Creating alchemy within an Irish mental health service
Kevin O’ Shanahan, James O’ Flynn, Declan McCarthy, Liam MacGabhann
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
This paper aims to describe a novel community development and how the synergies arising from the interaction of diverse perspectives (including arts and health, person centredness, co-production and shared leadership) have led to a transformative initiative for individuals and a local community in the Republic of Ireland.
This is a descriptive case study. It includes the personal narrative of an expert by experience who is one of the co-authors...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - June 15, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Kevin O ’ Shanahan
James O ’ Flynn
Declan McCarthy
Liam MacGabhann Source Type: research
Mental health services in Hong Kong: development of community-based inclusive development practice faced with the cultural barriers
Gigi Lam, Eva Yin-Han Chung
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The purpose of this paper is to review the development of mental health service policy in Hong Kong. After the return of Hong Kong’s sovereignty to China, mental health services in Hong Kong transformed from an institution-based care model supplemented by community care to a staging model covering primary prevention, early identification, treatment and integration. However, the staging model is subject to cultural barriers, including collectivist values and medical dominance. Therefore, the...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - June 7, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Gigi Lam
Eva Yin-Han Chung Source Type: research
Mood Lifters: evaluation of a novel peer-led mental wellness program
Cecilia M. Votta, Patricia J. Deldin
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The purpose of this paper is to test a mental wellness intervention, Mood Lifters (ML), that addresses significant barriers to mental health care. ML includes adults over 18 struggling with mental wellness or any life difficulties, except those with active suicidality, mania and psychosis, and addresses barriers to care using peer leaders in a manualized group format with a gamified point system.
Participants were recruited using online postings. Those eligible (76% female, 80% ...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - May 18, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Cecilia M. Votta
Patricia J. Deldin Source Type: research
The initial design and programme theory for a new work-focused psychotherapeutic intervention to treat moderate-severe recurrent depression and enhance job retention
This study outlines a methodological approach based on the layered ontology of critical realist philosophy, applied to a successful example, which will be useful during the early stages of the design and development of new group-based psychotherapeutic interventions.
By adopting the critical realist approach, the authors identified underlying mechanisms of change in relational group CBT. The theoretically integrated approach involving service users and practitioners from different professional backgrounds was unique and meant that the treatment programme was multi-modal rather than informed by a single therapeutic or ...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - April 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Nicola Walker
Sally Hall Source Type: research
Editorial: Taking a break in the “new normal”: virtual reality relaxation for a stressed workforce
Simon Riches, Holly Smith
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. 27, No. 2, pp.133-136 (Source: Mental Health Review Journal)
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - April 28, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Simon Riches
Holly Smith Source Type: research
Concerns over the prescription of clozapine for people diagnosed with “borderline personality disorder” in private locked psychiatric units
Keir Harding, Dan Warrender, Hollie Berrigan
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The use of long-term anti-psychotic medication for borderline personality disorder contravenes prescribing guidelines in the UK. There is evidence to suggest clozapine can be beneficial yet anecdotally it is prescribed almost exclusively in locked settings. A single study suggests a substantial proportion of psychiatrists disapprove of this practice. The purpose of this paper is to articulate concerns about the use of clozapine for “BPD” that are absent from current liter...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - April 25, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Keir Harding
Dan Warrender
Hollie Berrigan Source Type: research
“It doesn’t get taken seriously until it gets bad”: experiences of risk management from people diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder
This study aims to explore experiences of risk management in an NHS Trust where positive risk taking is being implemented with people with a BPD.
Interpretative phenomenological analysis is the methodology of transcripts from semi-structured interviews. Nine adults with a diagnosis of BPD and current or previous experiences of risk management approaches were sampled from one NHS Trust.
Limited resources and interpersonal barriers had a negative impact on experiences of Positive risk taking. Participants experienced one-off risk assessments and short-term interventions such as medication which they described as ...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - April 21, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Andrew Ware
Anna Preston
Simon Draycott Source Type: research
The active factor of alliance in psychotherapy: differentiation of therapeutic alliance quality according to the psychotherapist ’s theoretical orientation and type of disorder
The active factor of alliance in psychotherapy: differentiation of therapeutic alliance quality according to the psychotherapist’s theoretical orientation and type of disorder
Tomasz Prusiński
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The results of empirical research on the patient–psychotherapist relationship have led to the fundamental conclusion that the therapeutic alliance is one of the key factors ensuring the positive outcomes of psychotherapy. The main aim of the present study is to determine what variables pertaining to the context of psychotherap...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - April 20, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Tomasz Prusi ński Source Type: research
COVID-19 pandemic impact on mental health and quality of life among general population in Pakistan
Hafiz Muhammad Asif, Hafiz Abdul Sattar Hashmi, Rabia Zahid, Khalil Ahmad, Halima Nazar
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychosocial impact during the current epidemic situation of COVID-19 in Pakistan.
A total of 1,149 respondents were recruited in the study. Mental health status and psychological impact of COVID-19 outbreak were measured by impact of events scale–revised (IES-R) instrument and depression, anxiety and stress scales (DASS-21), respectively.
Results of IES-R revealed moderate or...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - April 5, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Hafiz Muhammad Asif
Hafiz Abdul Sattar Hashmi
Rabia Zahid
Khalil Ahmad
Halima Nazar Source Type: research
Psychological treatments and therapy adaptations for psychological distress in dementia and mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis
Amie Robinson, Nima Moghaddam
Mental Health Review Journal, Vol. ahead-of-print, No. ahead-of-print, pp.-
The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of psychological treatments and identify required adaptations to increase acceptability and improve outcomes for people with dementia or mild cognitive impairment who experience psychological distress.
The Cochrane Dementia and Cognitive Improvement Group Specialised Register and other databases were searched for eligible studies. Inclusion criteria identified nine randomised controlled trials comparing a psychological interven...
Source: Mental Health Review Journal - March 29, 2022 Category: Psychiatry Authors: Amie Robinson
Nima Moghaddam Source Type: research
