Keir Harding finds little published evidence to support people with ‘personality disorder’ diagnoses when they are in crisis.
[read the full story...]Mental health apps for people in crisis: helpful or harmful?
Wouter van Ballegooijen summarises a review of the ‘best apps’ for mental health, which finds very little support for people experiencing a mental health crisis.
[read the full story...]How far is evidence-informed policy-making achievable?
On the day that the new Mental Health Act Review report is published, Sonia Johnson and Bryn Lloyd-Evans reflect on the NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit contribution to the Independent Review of the Mental Health Act.
[read the full story...]Mental health crisis teams in England: lost in translation? #MHNR2018
Rachel Rowan Olive writes her debut elf blog about a recent national survey of mental health crisis resolution teams and crisis care systems in England.
[read the full story...]After the crisis: self-management and peer-support
Jenny Collom, Maria Giorgalli and Derek Tracy welcome a new RCT published yesterday in The Lancet which demonstrates the benefits of peer-supported self-management for people discharged from a mental health crisis team.
[read the full story...]Mental health training programmes for non-mental health professionals
Ian Cummins on a systematic review of mental health training programmes for non-mental health trained professionals coming into contact with people with mental ill health.
[read the full story...]A crisis map: charting the topography of home treatment
Derek Tracy and Lisa Lloyd look back over the last 17 years of mental health crisis care and consider the findings of a new survey of Crisis Resolution Teams in England.
[read the full story...]Street triage: all it’s cooked up to be?
Vishal Bhavsar appraises a descriptive study of Street Triage and detentions under Section 136 Mental Health Act in the North-East of England.
[read the full story...]Finding the right care in a crisis
Derek Tracy writes his debut Mental Elf blog on a recent study that explored the clinical factors that impacted on outcomes in crisis resolution services across two large mental health Trusts in London.
[read the full story...]Mental health crisis care: clinical and cost effectiveness of models of care
Caroline Leah publishes her debut blog on crisis care for people with mental health issues, which concludes that better quality evidence is needed to support the overall effectiveness of crisis care interventions.
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