Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 26 Issue 3

Measuring parent satisfaction in youth mental health services

Aileen O’Reilly, Alanna Donnelly, Jennifer Rogers, Olive Maloney, Gillian O’Brien, Elizabeth Doyle

Measuring parent satisfaction is regarded as essential but there is a paucity of research reporting on parental satisfaction with community youth mental health services. This…

Psychoeducation for borderline personality difficulties: a preliminary study

Fiammetta Rocca, Chloe Finamore, Sally Stamp, Fiona Kuhn-Thompson, Oliver Dale

National Institute for Clinical and Health Excellence guidelines (2009) state that low intensity psychological interventions should not be used for borderline personality…

Factors related to suicide among students: a narrative review of psychological literature

Saba Javed, Khadeeja Munawar

The purpose of this paper is to provide an educational overview of suicidal behavior and the factors related to suicidality among students between the ages of 18 and 30 years.

The psychological impact of COVID-19 on socially isolated individuals – a systematic review

Adisha Shankar, Brian Edward Yu, Monali Malvankar-Mehta

This study aims to assess the various psychological effects of the Coronavirus on those in isolation, the factors that cause these effects during the pandemic, as well as to…

Blogs, identity, stigma and scars: the legacy of self-injury

Nadine Kendall, Caylee MacDonald, James Binnie

This paper aims to explore the experience of living with scars from self-injury; how people who self-injure (SI) make meaning of their scars and how these scars are a part of the…

Social media use for supporting mental health (SMILE)

Gill Brown, Amy Leigh Rathbone, Julie Prescott

The SMILE study (social media as informal support for people with mental illness: an exploratory study) aimed to explore how people with mental health issues use and value social…

Current scenario of diagnosis and treatment of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) in urban India: a pilot study

Sandhya Basu, Bidisha Banerjee

The current literature on attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) shows a tangled picture of its etiology and diagnosis. It directs at over-medicalization in ADHD cases…