Are hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders linked to deeper beliefs formed in childhood? This study found that early ...

Are hair-pulling and skin-picking disorders linked to deeper beliefs formed in childhood? This study found that early ...

This large-scale quality improvement project across 55 mental health wards tested Board Relay, Zonal Observations, and Life ...

Margaret is a Psychology student at Loughborough University. She is currently on placement with Child and Adolescent ...

Phil is a Mental Health Nurse Consultant on a male adult acute psychiatric admission ward in the North East of England. He ...

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.

Over the past decade there has been huge interest in the role of the microbiome-gut-brain axis in brain function and mental health (as covered in these previous Mental Elf blogs: Murray, 2024; Clarke, ...

Violence against women is a major human rights violation that affects one in three women worldwide and has profound and overlapping impacts on women’s physical and mental health (World Health ...

Mental health, particularly youth mental health, is in crisis. Clinical services are underfunded and overstretched. People who are in marginalised groups, of lower socioeconomic position, and live in ...

Many autistic adults face additional and significant barriers to diagnosis, with detrimental impacts. Autistic adults who were undiagnosed in childhood have reported a range of negative experiences ...

There has been growing interest in how core beliefs (deep fundamental thoughts we have about ourselves and others), may influence psychosis and serious mental health problems. These sorts of beliefs ...