Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 17 Issue 2

Adult carers quality of life questionnaire (AC-QoL): development of an evidence-based tool

Stephen Joseph, Saul Becker, Hannah Elwick, Richard Silburn

– The purpose of this paper is to develop a new psychometric tool for the assessment of quality of life in adult informal carers.

Including families and carers: an evaluation of the family liaison service on inpatient psychiatric wards in Somerset, UK

Roger Stanbridge

National mental health policies in the UK have a common theme of seeking to develop working partnerships between people who use mental health services, their families and carers…

The emotional needs audit (ENA): a report on its reliability and validity

Anna Tsaroucha, Paul Kingston, Nadia Corp, Tony Stewart, Ian Walton

To broaden the range of well-being outcomes that can be measured for patients with depressed mood and/or other mental health issues the aim is to determine the reliability and…

Assessing the effectiveness of the “human givens” approach in treating depression: a quasi experimental study in primary care

Anna Tsaroucha, Paul Kingston, Tony Stewart, Ian Walton, Nadia Corp

This paper aims to present the findings of research commissioned by a Primary Care Trust in the UK to assess the implementation of a new pilot Human Givens mental health service…

Resolving a difference between cognitive therapy and rational emotive behaviour therapy: towards the development of an integrated CBT model of psychopathology

Philip Hyland, Daniel Boduszek

The field of cognitive-behavioural therapy contains many different theoretical models of psychopathology, with each discipline ascribing greater emphasis to a particular cognitive…

Editorial

Chiara Samele