Andrew Kauffmann is a coach and a tutor of expressive and therapeutic writing. The Centre for Mental Health’s 2024 Writer in Residence, he has lived with a mental health condition for over 20 years. A ...

Celine Wessa summarises a new meta-analysis on anti-inflammatory treatments for depression, in specific patient subgroups.

Melissa Black considers a study aiming to provide a psychometric validation of the AASPIRE Autistic Burnout Measure in ...

Meta-analysis of 13 studies found school-based interventions reduced PTSD, depression and anxiety after natural disasters, ...

Dasha is a health promotion practitioner and strong advocate for gender equality and women’s and children’s rights, with more ...

Ana Veic critiques a qualititative study assessing the experience of receiving dyadic developmental psychotherapy among children with developmental trauma.

Brexit in 2016 hit the UK with crucial implications on people’s mental health, especially those who belong to ethnic minority backgrounds. But was there an earlier event in the UK that could have ...

Inpatient mental health services are meant to provide safe places for people experiencing mental health difficulties to receive support and recover, but for many, the reality is far from this ideal.

If you’re reading the Mental Elf, I am going to make the assumption that you value evidence and believe it should inform clinical practice. But evidence is not black and white, and unfortunately, ...

The past 50 years has seen globalisation of psychiatric diagnostic (categorical) frameworks. Early versions were notoriously unreliable; when categories are unreliable they cannot be valid, meaning ...

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 ...

Microaggressions are simply defined as brief, commonplace daily verbal and/or behavioural slights or indignities that display hostility towards marginalised and minoritised people (Nadal et al, 2018).