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  • Study protocol for a pragmatic randomised multiple baseline trial evaluating Knowledge Insight Tools (KIT)

    This study describes the plans for our evaluation of a counselling intervention ('Knowledge Insight Tools or 'KIT') delivered in secondary schools for young people who struggle with anxiety and/or low mood. In collaboration with Place2Be.

    Authors: Constantinou, M. P., Stepanous, J., Lereya, S. T., et al.

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  • Implementing a mental health app intervention in a university setting: Multi-methods evaluation study

    Guided by student consultations, a multi-methods approach was adopted to evaluate the process of integrating a new app called Orpheus to support students at university.

    Authors: Liverpool, S., Fletcher, K., Chopra, TK., et al.

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  • Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial (BESST trial): A school-based cluster randomised controlled trial of the DISCOVER workshop

    The Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial investigated the effectiveness of a brief self-referral stress workshop programme for sixth-form students aged 16–18 years old.

    Authors: Kirsty, J, Lisk S., Payne-Cook C., Farishta, Z. et al.

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  • “Containing the Network”: Referrers’ Experiences of the Community Forensic CAMHS Consultation and Liaison Model

    We interviewed professionals who had referred young people for support from Community Forensic Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (Community F:CAMHS). This research came out of our evaluation of Community F:CAMHS, commissioned by NHS England and NHS Improvement. This research specifically explored referrers' experiences of the consultation and liaison model of Community F:CAMHS.

    Authors: Jacob, J., Merrick, H., Lane, R., Cracknell, L., Labno, A., D’Souza, S., White, O., & Edbrooke-Childs, J.

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  • Clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of a brief accessible cognitive behavioural therapy programme for stress in school-aged adolescents (BESST): a cluster randomised controlled trial in the UK

    Depression and anxiety are increasingly prevalent in adolescents. The Brief Educational Workshops in Secondary Schools Trial investigated the effectiveness of a brief accessible stress workshop programme for 16–18-yearolds. We aimed to investigate the clinical effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of the DISCOVER cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) workshop on symptoms of depression in 16–18-year-olds at 6 months compared with treatment-as usual.

    Authors: Brown, J., James, K., Lisk, Stephen., Shearer, J., Byford, S., Stallard, P., Deighton, J., Saunders, D., Yarrum, J., Fonagy, P., Weaver, T., Scare, I., Day, C., Evans, C., & Carter, B.

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  • “I can’t escape my scars, even if I do get better”: A qualitative exploration of how adolescents talk about their self-harm and self-harm scars during cognitive behavioural therapy for depression

    This study aimed to explore how depressed adolescents talk about their self-harm behaviours and their self-harm scars during therapy for depression. The findings of this study suggest that it could be helpful for therapists to consider how wider sociocultural beliefs around self-harm may impact how teenagers talk about their self-harm and scars in treatment for depression.

    Authors: Kristen, A., Lecchi, T., Loades, M., & Midgley, N.

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  • Whole-family programmes for families living with parental mental illness: a systematic review and meta-analysis

    We searched for studies investigating whole-family-interventions for families living with parental mental illness. We identified what these interventions have in common, their effectiveness and how families' experienced them.

    Authors: Moltrecht, B, Lange, A.M.C., Merrick, H. , Radley, J.

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  • Intranasal oxytocin administration improves mood in new mothers with moderate low mood but not in mothers with elevated symptoms of postnatal depression: A randomised controlled trial

    This study investigated if oxytocin nasal administration reduces low mood in new mothers with postnatal depression.

    Authors: Lindley Baron-Cohen, K., Feldman, R., Fearon, P., Fonagy, P.

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  • The relationship between general psychopathology in young people with family functioning and engagement with psychotherapy

    In this paper, we investigated what was the most accurate way of understanding the structure of psychopathology in a Brazilian sample (i.e., 'is psychopathology a unique factor that explains all psychopathological conditions such as anxiety, depression, and antisocial disorders? Or are those conditions actually different categories/problems?').

    Authors: Ramires, V.R.R., Fiorini, G., Schmidt, F. M. D., da Costa, C. P., Deon, E., & Saunders, R.

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