Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 28 Issue 1

Changing leadership, management and culture in mental health trusts

Frederick Hassan Konteh, Russell Mannion, Rowena Jacobs

This study aims to explore how leadership, management practices and organisational cultures have changed in low and high-performing mental health (MH) providers between 2015 and…

Exploring the ability of child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to respond to new valuable knowledge: the influence of professionals and internal organisational processes

Lida Efstathopoulou, Paul Sanderson, Hilary Bungay

Health policies in England highlight the need for child and adolescent mental health services (CAMHS) to embed new knowledge in practice, yet evidence remains scarce about the…

Assessing mental health literacy in Pakistani youth using case-vignettes

Fayyaz Ahmed Faize, Samreen Idrees, Maheen Sohail

This study aims to assess mental health literacy (MHL) in the general population using six case vignettes related to depression, mania, psychosis, conversion disorder (CD)…

A qualitative evaluation of staff experience in the delivery of a co-produced consultation service for personality disorder

Holly Smith, Chloe Finamore, Julia Blazdell, Oliver Dale

Consultation services are recommended to support mental health staff working with service users diagnosable with personality disorder. However, there is scarce literature…

Evaluating social drop-in facilities and their impact on social recovery in early intervention in psychosis services

Jessica Lee, Donna Haskayne, Madihah Hussain, Abbas Darukhanawala, Charlotte Marriott

“Social recovery” is a long-cited aim within the UK early intervention in psychosis (EIP) services; however, there is a lack of evidence regarding existing social recovery…

The SECURE STAIRS framework: preliminary evaluation of formulation developments in the Children and Young People’s Secure Estate

Annette McKeown, Aisling Martin, Romana Farooq, Amy Wilson, Chelsea Addy, Patrick J. Kennedy

The purpose of this paper is to evaluate pre- and post-formulation findings with multi-disciplinary staff within two secure children’s homes (SCHs) in the North East of England.

Brief psychological interventions in face-to-face and telehealth formats: a comparison of outcomes in a naturalistic setting

Isabella Lalor, Chloe Costello, Matthew O'Sullivan, Catherine Rice, Padraig Collins

In this study, the authors aimed to compare the effectiveness of low-intensity psychological interventions provided face-to-face (FTF) with those provided by telephone and…

Mental health care using video during COVID-19: service user and clinician experiences, including future preferences

Lamiya Samad, Bonnie Teague, Khalifa Elzubeir, Karen Moreira, Nita Agarwal, Sophie Bagge, Emma Marriott, Jonathan Wilson

This paper aims to evaluate service user (SU) and clinician acceptability of video care, including future preferences to inform mental health practice during COVID-19, and beyond.