Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 27 Issue 1

From prevention to peer support: a systematic review exploring the involvement of lived-experience in eating disorder interventions

Hannah Kate Lewis, Una Foye

The current policy landscape advocates for the involvement of people with lived experience in the co-production and co-delivery of mental health services. However, evidence on how…

Helping with the pressures of the past: service-user perspectives of the sensory approaches within the National High Secure Healthcare Service for Women

Dawn Wilkinson, Rachel Beryl

This paper aims to explore service-user perspectives of sensory approaches introduced and promoted by the trauma and self-injury service within the National High Secure Healthcare…

A qualitative study of the label of personality disorder from the perspectives of people with lived experience and occupational experience

Gary Lamph, Jake Dorothy, Tamar Jeynes, Alison Coak, Raeesa Jassat, Alison Elliott, Mick McKeown, Tim Thornton

The label “Personality Disorder” continues to divide opinion. Challenges to the terminology of personality disorder led by people with lived experience and supported by critical…

Grounding clinical guidelines in service users’ experiences of endings

Kimberley Webb, Thomas Schröder, David Mark Gresswell

The purpose of this paper is to explore service users’ experiences of the process of ending from national health service (NHS) community personality disorder services.

Review of analysis techniques in mental health research with consumer instruments – a guide for researchers

Eric Badu, Anthony Paul O’Brien, Rebecca Mitchell

This integrative review aimed to identify and synthesis literature on analysis techniques and methodological approaches used to analyse consumer measures in mental health research.

Impact on staff attitudes of brief personality disorder training for acute psychiatric wards

Claire McDonald, Fiona Seaman-Thornton, Che Ling Michelle Mok, Hanne Jakobsen, Simon Riches

Negative attitudes towards “personality disorder” are common among mental health professionals. This study aims to design a psychoeducational training targeting attitudes to…

Rewiring practice: community mental health professionals’ attitudes towards and knowledge of electroconvulsive therapy in the context of advance decision-making

Rebecca Dunlop, Gaia Cetrano

In England, electroconvulsive therapy (ECT) cannot be administered to service users who make an advance decision to refuse the treatment, unless in life-threatening circumstances…

Predicting treatment outcomes in improving access to psychological therapy (IAPT) services

Irini Verbist, Dale Huey, Hazel Bennett

Given the considerable variation in treatment effectiveness observed across Improving Access to Psychological Therapy (IAPT) services, the purpose of this study is to explore…