The Tyranny of Time: How Long Does Effective Therapy Really Take?
Author Archive: Editorial
Children and young people’s social prescribing: new evidence review
Trauma-Informed Care and PTMF reduce self-harm, seclusion, and restraint in acute inpatient psychiatric setting
Framing depression as a functional signal, not a disease: Rationale and initial randomized controlled trial
This research paper – published in Social Science & Medicine – comes from Hans S. Schroder, Andrew Devendorf, and Brian J. Zikmund-Fisher. “Highlights Depression is often discussed as a medical disorder. This framework has some benefits but also has some drawbacks. We…
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‘If I were you I wouldn’t start from here’: Working for real change in societal responses to distress
Delusions as Storytelling Gone Wrong in Bad Life Situations: Exploring a Discursive Contextual Analysis of Delusions with Clinical Implications
This theoretical article by Bernard Guerin has been published in The Psychological Record. The abstract says: “A contextual model of delusions drawing on discourse analysis is explored, which changes current attributional models to more concrete and observable forms of language-in-context. Most current…
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Do not prescribe antidepressants for mild to moderate depression or at first visit
‘Growing crisis’: Thousands more 12 to 15 years olds being prescribed antidepressants
How the “Chemical Imbalance” Metaphor Harms Patients
Eating Disorder Helpline Fires Staff, Transitions to Chatbot After Unionization
“Motherboard tested the currently public version of Tessa and was told that it was a chatbot off the bat. ‘Hi there, I’m Tessa. I am a mental health support chatbot here to help you feel better whenever you need a stigma-free way to talk…
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