Laura Hemming summarises a new meta-analysis that finds that exposure to suicidal thoughts and behaviours in friends can ...

Rachael is currently a Trainee Clinical Psychologist with the University of Birmingham. Her doctoral research focuses on the ...

Four reviews on digital mental health engagement reveal critically inconsistent definitions and a shared finding: human ...

A systematic review (of mostly cross sectional studies) explores whether difficulties regulating emotions play a role in skin picking disorder, and what this could mean for treatment.

In the UK 40% of adults with learning disabilities (28% if problem behaviours are excluded) experience mental health problems at any point in time. An estimated 36% of children and young people (24% ...

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 ...

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 ...

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, ...

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.

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).

Punch (1977) described the police as the “secret social service”. This phrase captures the way that policing is a role that entails much more than apprehending offenders. The policing role has always ...

Every year I approach the end of March and October with the same growing trepidation, knowing that my sleep pattern is about to be disrupted, and I am going to be tired, grumpy and generally miserable ...