‘Doing the right thing’: factors influencing GP prescribing of antidepressants and prescribed doses
Journal Article
Johnson, C. F., Williams, B., MacGillivray, S. A., Dougall, N. J., & Maxwell, M. (2017)
‘Doing the right thing’: factors influencing GP prescribing of antidepressants and prescribed doses. BMC family practice, 18(1), https://doi.org/10.1186/s12875-017-0643-z
Background: Antidepressant prescribing continues to increase, with 5-16% of adults receiving antidepressants annually. Total prescribing growth is due in part to increased lon...
Perceptions of learning disability nurses and support staff towards people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia
Journal Article
McCorkindale, S., Fleming, M. P., & Martin, C. R. (2017)
Perceptions of learning disability nurses and support staff towards people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia. Journal of Psychiatric and Mental Health Nursing, 24(5), 282-292. https://doi.org/10.1111/jpm.12381
Background and Purpose of Study
The prevalence of schizophrenia in people with learning disability is 3-4%. This is the first study to investigate the illness perceptions of l...
Loneliness in Psychosis: A Meta-analytical Review
Journal Article
Michalska da Rocha, B., Vasilopoulou, E., Rhodes, S., & Hutton, P. (2018)
Loneliness in Psychosis: A Meta-analytical Review. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 44(1), 114-125. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbx036
Loneliness may be related to psychotic symptoms but a comprehensive synthesis of the literature in this area is lacking. The aim of the current study is to determine the magni...
Risk Factors for Suicide and Suicidal Behavior Relevant to Emergency Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review of Post-2007 Reviews
Journal Article
McClatchey, K., Murray, J., Rowat, A., & Chouliara, Z. (2017)
Risk Factors for Suicide and Suicidal Behavior Relevant to Emergency Health Care Settings: A Systematic Review of Post-2007 Reviews. Suicide and Life-Threatening Behavior, 47(6), 729-745. https://doi.org/10.1111/sltb.12336
Suicide is a global public health problem and with recent economic and societal changes, there may be emerging risk factors unrecognised by healthcare professionals. The aim o...
Examining the Disconnect Between Psychometric Models and Clinical Reality of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder
Journal Article
Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., Karatzias, T., Bisson, J. I., & Roberts, N. P. (2017)
Examining the Disconnect Between Psychometric Models and Clinical Reality of Posttraumatic Stress Disorder. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 47, 54-59
There have been many factor analytic studies aimed at testing alternative latent structures of DSM-IV and DSM-5 posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) symptoms. The primary rati...
“Why Are You Here? Can’t You Cope at Home?” The Psychiatric Crisis of People With Intellectual Disabilities and the Community’s Response
Journal Article
Spassiani, N., Abou Chacra, M. S., & Lunsky, Y. (2017)
“Why Are You Here? Can’t You Cope at Home?” The Psychiatric Crisis of People With Intellectual Disabilities and the Community’s Response. Journal of Mental Health Research in Intellectual Disabilities, 10(2), 74-92. https://doi.org/10.1080/19315864.2016.1278290
Introduction: Individuals with intellectual disability (ID) are high users of emergency mental health services and can experience stigmatization in these circumstances. The pu...
Participation and inclusion: mental health service users' lived experience – an international study.
Book
McKay, E. A., Mahon, D., Donellan, G., Haracz, K., Sheldon, S., & Ryan, S. (2017)
Participation and inclusion: mental health service users' lived experience – an international study. In A. H. Eide, S. Josephsson, & K. Vik (Eds.), Participation in health and welfare services: professional concepts and lived experienceLondon: Taylor & Francis (Routledge
In the UK, progress has been made in terms of awareness of the barriers to participation and social inclusion that is experienced by people with severe and enduring mental hea...
Guideline for the treatment and planning of services for complex post-traumatic stress disorder in adults
Report
McFetridge, M., Hauenstein Swan, A., Heke, S., Karatzias, T., Greenberg, N., Kitchiner, N. & Morley, R. (2017)
Guideline for the treatment and planning of services for complex post-traumatic stress disorder in adults. Scotland: UK Psychological Trauma Society (UKPTS
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Alternative models of disorders of traumatic stress based on the new ICD-11 proposals
Journal Article
Shevlin, M., Hyland, P., Karatzias, T., Fyvie, C., Roberts, N., Bisson, J. I., …Cloitre, M. (2017)
Alternative models of disorders of traumatic stress based on the new ICD-11 proposals. Acta psychiatrica Scandinavica, 135(5), 419-428. https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.12695
Objective Although there is emerging evidence for the factorial validity of the distinction between Posttraumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) and Complex PTSD (CPTSD) proposed in I...
The feasibility and clinical benefits of improving facial affect recognition impairments in schizophrenia: Systematic review and meta-analysis
Journal Article
Bordon, N., O'Rourke, S., & Hutton, P. (2017)
The feasibility and clinical benefits of improving facial affect recognition impairments in schizophrenia: Systematic review and meta-analysis. Schizophrenia Research, 188, 3-12. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2017.01.014
Background
People diagnosed with schizophrenia have significant difficulty accurately recognising emotions expressed by others. This may generate anomalous experiences which, ...