Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 27 Issue 3

Mental health mobile app use to manage psychological difficulties: an umbrella review

Kiran Badesha, Sarah Wilde, David L. Dawson

A rapid increase in global smartphone ownership and digital health technologies offers the potential for mobile phone applications (apps) to deliver mental health interventions…

Social stigma among health-care providers toward patients with schizophrenia and obsessive-compulsive disorders at tertiary hospital in Makkah, Saudi Arabia

Sami Saad, Jolan Ayman Bshawri, Sara Mohammed Alsaedi, Rahaf Emad Radi, Raneem Marwan Ghonim, Haya Mohammed Nasraldain, Abdullah Abdulqadeer Gadeer

Several previous studies showed strong social stigma toward mental illness patients from the health-care providers (HCPs) in Saudi Arabia. This stigma affects the level of care…

Psychological treatments and therapy adaptations for psychological distress in dementia and mild cognitive impairment: a systematic review and meta-analysis

Amie Robinson, Nima Moghaddam

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate the effectiveness of psychological treatments and identify required adaptations to increase acceptability and improve outcomes for people…

COVID-19 pandemic impact on mental health and quality of life among general population in Pakistan

Hafiz Muhammad Asif, Hafiz Abdul Sattar Hashmi, Rabia Zahid, Khalil Ahmad, Halima Nazar

The purpose of this study was to evaluate the psychosocial impact during the current epidemic situation of COVID-19 in Pakistan.

“It doesn’t get taken seriously until it gets bad”: experiences of risk management from people diagnosed with a borderline personality disorder

Andrew Ware, Anna Preston, Simon Draycott

People with a borderline personality disorder (BPD) diagnosis can require support from mental health services for managing risk behaviour. Current routine inpatient and community…

Concerns over the prescription of clozapine for people diagnosed with “borderline personality disorder” in private locked psychiatric units

Keir Harding, Dan Warrender, Hollie Berrigan

The use of long-term anti-psychotic medication for borderline personality disorder contravenes prescribing guidelines in the UK. There is evidence to suggest clozapine can be…

The active factor of alliance in psychotherapy: differentiation of therapeutic alliance quality according to the psychotherapist’s theoretical orientation and type of disorder

Tomasz Prusiński

The results of empirical research on the patient–psychotherapist relationship have led to the fundamental conclusion that the therapeutic alliance is one of the key factors…