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“It is not all glowing and kale smoothies”: An exploration of mental health difficulties during pregnancy through women's voices
ConclusionsThese themes highlight the need for greater awareness and acceptance of mental health difficulties during pregnancy as well as postnatally. While perinatal mental health services are evolving, there is still an urgent requirement for services to continue to develop to meet women's needs, as well as to develop the role of clinicians as facilitators of engagement with needs-matched care. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - April 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alison Reddish, Lisa Golds, Angus MacBeth Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

A call to action: Re ‐activating the latent human factor for achieving the UN SDGs—cultivating courageous partnerships and compassionate human systems
ConclusionCompassion uniquely potentiates global action on wicked problems. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - April 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Corinne Reid, Liz Grant Tags: INVITED ARTICLE Source Type: research

A qualitative investigation into care ‐leavers' experiences of accessing mental health support
ConclusionsWe identified several important implications for health and social care practice, across primary and secondary health care settings. This work highlights ways to better support this highly vulnerable group in accessing evidence-based mental health support, and how to maintain engagement. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - March 9, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Alice R. Phillips, Rachel M. Hiller, Sarah L. Halligan, Iris Lavi, John A. A. Macleod, David Wilkins Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

The experience of seeking and accessing help from mental health services among young people of Eastern European backgrounds: A qualitative interview study
ConclusionsRecognising and responding to the cultural tension that young people of EE backgrounds may experience can help us to develop more accessible and inclusive mental health services. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - March 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jerica Radez, Chiara Causier, Daniel Maughan, Felicity Waite, Louise Johns Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Clarifying relations of emotion regulation, emotional avoidance and anxiety symptoms in a community ‐based treatment‐seeking sample
ConclusionsEA appears to be a dominant risk factor, and ER a proxy risk factor, for anxiety symptom severity. EA may be an avenue for greater treatment specificity for those with anxiety symptoms. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - February 28, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Rachel C. Bock, Lucas D. Baker, Emily A. Kalantar, Christopher R. Berghoff, Joel C. Stroman, Kim L. Gratz, Matthew T. Tull Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Does insecure attachment lead to psychosis via dissociation? A systematic review of the literature
ConclusionsThis is the first review to synthesise the research examining attachment, dissociation, and psychosis. The evidence is consistent with proposed causal hypotheses and raises conceptual and measurement issues, for example, the need to clarify the relative contributions of different insecure attachment styles, and utilise behavioural/observational measures to strengthen study designs. Most importantly, we need experimental and longitudinal studies to confirm causal links and targets for treatment. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - February 16, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Joseph Puckett, Monica Sood, Katherine Newman ‐Taylor Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

The effect of the alliance on social recovery outcomes and usage in a moderated online social therapy for first ‐episode psychosis
ConclusionsThe alliance may impact aspects of social recovery and usage in digital interventions for FEP. Specific aspects of the alliance (human –human and human–program relationships) should be considered in future research. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - February 15, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: B. J. Stiles, T. F. Halverson, A. Stone, C. Still, J. F. Gleeson, M. Alvarez ‐Jimenez, D. O. Perkins, D. L. Penn Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

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Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - February 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: ISSUE INFORMATION Source Type: research

Editorial acknowledgement
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Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - February 8, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Tags: EDITORIAL ACKNOWLEDGEMENT Source Type: research

Social rank and compassion: How insecure striving, social safeness and fears of compassion mediate the relationship between masculinity, depression and anxiety
ConclusionsSocial rank theory offers a helpful explanatory framework to understand the links between traditional masculinity and mental health, highlighting the importance of social safeness and insecure striving for men. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - February 4, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: James N. Kirby, Jamin Day, Paul Gilbert Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy for attachment and relational trauma: Engaging people with a diagnosis of personality disorder
ConclusionsThis study has identified that within Compassion Focused Group Psychotherapy, there is a therapeutic process of establishing group-based safeness as a necessary precursor to cultivating compassion and reworking early shame-based trauma memories. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - February 3, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kate Lucre, Fiona Ashworth, Alex Copello, Chris Jones, Paul Gilbert Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

‘I felt like I'd lost control of everything’: An exploration of metacognition and masculinity in men experiencing suicidality
ConclusionPerseverative thinking and erroneous metacognitive beliefs were associated with reduced functioning, which was incompatible with masculinity beliefs about leadership and strength, and suicide was considered as re-establishing control. Further research into metacognitive processes in male suicidality would enhance theoretical understanding. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - January 30, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jonothan Orson, Lydia Pearson, Sophie Parker Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

Longitudinal outcomes of a therapist ‐supported digital mental health intervention for depression and anxiety symptoms: A retrospective cohort study
ConclusionsTreatment gains were made for depression and anxiety symptoms at the end of treatment and up to 24  months. Future studies should determine the feasibility of integrating post-treatment programmes into DMHIs to address symptom deterioration. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - January 26, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Adam K. Pettitt, Benjamin W. Nelson, Valerie L. Forman ‐Hoffman, Philippe R. Goldin, Nicholas C. Peiper Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research

What predicts psychosocial functioning in borderline personality disorder? Investigating the association with reflective functioning
ConclusionsBorderline personality disorder symptom severity was most important in determining functional impairment, alongside trauma related to sexual abuse as well as social and socio-economic factors. These findings verify that BPD symptoms themselves most robustly predict functional impairment, followed by history of sexual abuse, then contextual factors (e.g. housing, financial, physical health), and then RF. These results lend marginal support to the conceptualization that mentalizing may enhance psychosocial functioning by facilitating social learning, but emphasize symptom reduction and stabilization of life contex...
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - January 13, 2024 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Jana Volkert, Gabrielle S. Ilagan, Evan A. Iliakis, Boyu Ren, Paul Schr öder‐Pfeifer, Lois W. Choi‐Kain Tags: INVITED ARTICLE Source Type: research

At the mercy of myself: A thematic analysis of beliefs about losing control
ConclusionsThese results suggest that perceived losses of control are common and that negative beliefs about losing may only become problematic when the losses are personally significant. Further, they offer important insight into what is common among clinical and non-clinical beliefs about losing control and inform how these beliefs might be worth targeting in cognitive and behavioural interventions. (Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice)
Source: Psychology and Psychotherapy: Theory, Research and Practice - December 23, 2023 Category: Psychiatry & Psychology Authors: Kenneth Kelly ‐Turner, Adam S. Radomsky Tags: RESEARCH ARTICLE Source Type: research