Keir Harding reveals difficult and harmful narratives around people given a diagnosis of 'borderline personality disorder'.

Demetra Christodoulou appraises a recent Pakistani trial on a group parenting intervention for male postpartum depression.

Demetra is a postgraduate student in Clinical Mental Health Sciences at UCL and a researcher, aspiring to become a clinical ...

Most people receive help in community settings but little is known about safety. This first of its kind study provides new ...

Lorna Staines considers recent studies in psychological interventions, to support affordable healthcare for South Asian women ...

I am currently doing an MSc in Global Mental Health at the University of Glasgow and working as a Peer Researcher at the Helen Bamber Foundation. I completed my undergraduate psychology degree in 2024 ...

The relationship between migration and psychosis risk is well established. A meta-analysis by Selten et al., (2020) found that migrants are twice as likely to experience psychosis. Other Mental Elf ...

Over the past decade there has been huge interest in the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain function and mental health (as covered in these previous Mental Elf blogs: Murray, 2024; Clarke, ...

Exercise-based interventions, potentially serving as either alternative treatments for depression or alongside medication and/or therapy, are recommended by the UK National Institute for Health and ...

Alice Dawson and Emma Cormack evaluate an umbrella review on trauma-informed clinical practice in forensic youth settings, ...