Mental Health Review Journal: Volume 24 Issue 3

Team formulation in practice: forms, functions, and facilitators

Nicole Geach, Danielle De Boos, Nima Moghaddam

Despite the popularity of team formulation, there is a lack of knowledge about workable implementation in practice. The purpose of this paper is twofold: first, to characterise…

Exploring multi-disciplinary team meetings on a personality-disorder ward within a forensic setting

Maggie Leese, Kim Fraser

The purpose of this paper is to understand how patients on a low security personality disorder ward experienced multi-disciplinary team (MDT) meetings, in order to suggest…

Service user experiences of clinical psychology within an adult mental health service: an IPA study

Diane Beattie, Síle Murphy, John Burke, Hester O’Connor, Sarah Jamieson

The purpose of this paper, a qualitative study, is to explore service users’ experiences of attending clinical psychology within a public community adult mental health service.

NLP for Japanese workers’ mental well-being: pilot study

Yasuhiro Kotera, David Sheffield

Although numerous national and organisational level approaches have taken to improve their mental health, Japanese workers still suffer from high rates of mental health problems…

Stuckness in psychiatric practice

Peter J. Wilkinson

The purpose of this paper is to introduce and explore stuckness as a felt phenomenon in psychiatric practice in order to stimulate clinicians in mental health settings to be on…

Being known, branching out: troupes, teams and recovery

Catherine Rachel Heinemeyer, Nick Rowe

The purpose of this paper is to reach beyond existing research into the mental health benefits of arts-based or educational opportunities, to discover the particular impact on…

The effectiveness of Human Givens Rewind treatment for trauma

Shona Adams, Steven Allan

Rewind is a trauma-focussed exposure technique that is part of Human Givens (HG) therapy. However, there have been no controlled studies examining the effectiveness or…