Mental Health

Nuria Gardia considers a scoping review on self‑management, self‑care, and self‑help strategies in adolescents with emotional problems.
The post Deciphering self-help: how do adolescents experiencing emotional difficulties cope? appeared first on National Elf Service.

Tuba Saygin Avsar reviews a study on the perceived addiction of e-cigarettes, which used data from the International Tobacco Control Smoking and Vaping England Survey, to suggest that most UK vapers consider e-cigarettes less addictive than tobacco.
The post Are e-cigarettes more addictive than tobacco? appeared first on National Elf Service.

Part 3 in a four-part series on solving the toll of depression on populations. Pim Cuijpers focuses on the psychological treatment of depression and gives an overview of a meta-analytic research domain.
The post Towards better psychological treatment of depression #DepressionSolvingTheToll part 3 appeared first on National Elf Service.

Caroline Touzeau and Caitlin Lloyd blog about a recent longitudinal cohort study that investigated patterns of maladaptive exercise in young people, which supports “re-framing motivations for exercise in youth away from weight loss at a population level”.
The post Understanding maladaptive exercise in adolescence: who is at risk and why? appeared first on National Elf Service.

Justine Karpusheff explores a new realist synthesis of factors affecting retention of staff in UK adult mental health services.
The post We need to give staff a say, to make sure they will want to stay: what a realist review tells us is missing from the NHS Long Term Workforce Plan appeared first on National Elf Service.

Liam Pikett summarises a cross-sectional study exploring the association of family, social and romantic loneliness with suicidal ideation and self-harm.
The post Is targeting loneliness the key to releasing people from entrapment and preventing suicide? appeared first on National Elf Service.

Emanuele Osimo blogs about the 20-year follow up of the OPUS trial, which tested early intervention services for people with first-episode schizophrenia spectrum disorder.
The post Early intervention for psychosis: better outcomes in the short term? appeared first on National Elf Service.

Part 2 in a four-part series on solving the toll of depression on populations. Pim Cuijpers focuses on the opportunities and challenges of digital interventions for depression, looking at guided and unguided digital interventions, and taking a global mental health perspective.
The post The promise of digital interventions to reduce the disease burden of depression #DepressionSolvingTheToll part 2 appeared first on National Elf Service.

Part 2 in a four-part series on solving the toll of depression on populations. Pim Cuijpers focuses on the opportunities and challenges of digital interventions for depression, looking at guided and unguided digital interventions, and taking a global mental health perspective.
The post The promise of digital interventions to reduce the disease burden of depression #DepressionSolvingTheToll part 2 appeared first on National Elf Service.

Ed Palmer considers new research on the genetic risk for Tourette Syndrome and it’s relationship to other mental and physical health conditions.
The post Genetic risk for Tourette Syndrome and related conditions appeared first on National Elf Service.