The Journal of Mental Health Training, Education and Practice: Volume 19 Issue 1

Attitudes of medical students to electroconvulsive therapy

Patrick Clements, Aidan Turkington

This study aims to explore medical students’ attitudes to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). The authors sought to determine correlates of baseline attitudes to ECT and whether…

Prioritising infant mental health: a qualitative study examining the role of education and training to infant mental health service development in Scotland

Fionnghuala Murphy, Fifi Phang, Alicia Weaver, Helen Minnis, Anne McFadyen, Andrew Dawson

Despite the long-established importance of infant mental health, internationally this has not been mirrored in the provision of infant mental health services. Within Scotland in…

Does a brief contact-based video intervention reduce public mental health stigma associated with psychosis in a collectivistic society? A randomised control study

Audrina S.Y. Tan, Pawel D. Mankiewicz

Internationally, among mental health difficulties, psychosis appears most stigmatised. Yet, research on mental health education specific to psychosis, including stigma reduction…

The association between mental health literacy and resilience among individuals who received therapy and those who did not

Avital Laufer, Anwar Khatib, Michal Finkelstein

This study aims to explore the link between mental health literacy (MHL) and resilience in two groups: individuals who underwent psychotherapy and a similar group who did not.

Impact of student attributes on empathy during a dementia simulation: a mixed methods study

Jodi Brooke Patterson, Michelle Kimzey

The purpose of this paper is to determine the relationship between trait and situational empathy, and the effect of educational activities on empathy of nursing students towards…