Empowering mental health service users and families

In England, it is estimated that one in six adults suffers from poor mental health and mental health services are under increasing pressure to meet demand for care. Our mental health theme develops and tests ways to deliver better care with patients, their families and the clinicians who treat them.

Watch a short film introducing this CLAHRC research theme featuring Theme Lead Professor Peter Fonagy

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Meet The Team

Prof Peter Fonagy

Theme Lead: Empowering Mental Health Service Users and Families

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Prof Kamaldeep Bhui

Deputy Lead: Empowering Mental Health Service Users and Families

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Prof Stephen Stansfeld

Ex-Deputy Theme Lead: Empowering mental health service users and families

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Meet The Whole Team

Publications

Epidemiology of Mental Health Attendances at Emergency Departments: Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis

The IDEMCare Study—Improving Dementia Care in Black African and Caribbean Groups: A feasibility cluster randomised controlled trial

Shared decision-making with involuntary hospital patients: a qualitative study of barriers and facilitators

Power Up: Patient and public involvement in developing a shared decision-making app for mental health

The Lancet Commission on Dementia Prevention, Intervention, and Care: a call for action

The management of sleep disorders in dementia: an update

An Evaluation of Haringey Co-located Welfare Advice Services in General Practice Settings – Report

Impact of co-located welfare advice in healthcare settings: prospective quasi-experimental controlled study

Relationship between speaking English as a second language and agitation in people with dementia living in care homes: Results from the MARQUE (Managing Agitation and Raising Quality of life) English national care home survey

Why involve families in acute mental healthcare? A collaborative conceptual review

Changes in interpersonal problems in the psychotherapeutic treatment of depression as measured by the Inventory of Interpersonal Problems: A systematic review and meta-analysis

Conduct problems in youth and the RDoC approach: A developmental, evolutionary-based view

Association of Neural and Emotional Impacts of Reward Prediction Errors With Major Depression

Changes in severity of psychosocial difficulties in adolescents accessing specialist mental healthcare in England (2009-2014).

Mutualistic Coupling Between Vocabulary and Reasoning Supports Cognitive Development During Late Adolescence and Early Adulthood

Promoting young people’s mental health and wellbeing through participation in the arts: A mixed methods evaluation of the Zinc Arts ArtZone programme

Psychiatric outcomes associated with chronic illness in adolescence: A systematic review

Co-located welfare advice in general practice: A realist qualitative study

Core outcome measures for interventions to prevent or slow the progress of dementia for people living with mild to moderate dementia: Systematic review and consensus recommendations

The Application of Positive Psychotherapy in Mental Health Care: A Systematic Review

News

“It’s a matter of building bridges”…involving carers in the treatment of inpatients with severe mental illness

How can we help Emergency Departments better prepare for the arrival of patients with acute mental health problems?

How can we improve dementia care in UK black elders?

Being a Clinical Academic… reflections from CLAHRC HEE NCEL Fellow Lisa Wood

Welfare advice in GP surgeries – what is the impact on GP’s workload and patients’ health and wellbeing

CLAHRC influences government policy on mental health in schools

Quality of life in dementia: do staff and family share the same beliefs in care homes?

Memory study poster is award winning!

Quality of life in dementia: are the views of care home staff and relatives the same?

“Getting help for forgetfulness”: Encouraging timely help-seeking for dementia in Black African and Caribbean families

Award winning short film about the project

“We don’t do dementia” identifying barriers to help-seeking for memory problems among Black African and Caribbean British communities.