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Paranoia in patients attending child and adolescent mental health services
(2021-01)
OBJECTIVE: Paranoia may be particularly prevalent during adolescence, building on the heightened social vulnerabilities at this age. Excessive mistrust may be corrosive for adolescent social relationships, especially in ...
Treating sleep problems in young people at ultra-high-risk of psychosis: study protocol for a single-blind parallel group randomised controlled feasibility trial (SleepWell).
(2020-11)
Background
Effective interventions, targeting key contributory causal factors, are needed to prevent the emergence of severe mental health problems in young people. Insomnia is a common clinical issue that is problematic ...
Participatory design to create a VR therapy for psychosis
(2021-02)
This paper describes how participatory design was employed in the design of an automated Virtual Reality (VR) psychological therapy (gameChange), putting people with lived experience of psychosis at the heart of the process. ...
A compassionate imagery intervention for patients with persecutory delusions
(2021-06)
Negative beliefs about the self, including low self-compassion, have been identified as a putative causal factor in the occurrence of paranoia. Therefore, improving self-compassion may be one route to reduce paranoia.
Aims:
To ...
Online Social Endorsement and Covid-19 Vaccine Hesitancy in the United Kingdom
(2021-04)
We explore the implications of online social endorsement for the Covid-19 vaccination program in the United Kingdom.
Vaccine hesitancy is a long-standing problem, but it has assumed great urgency due to the pandemic. By ...
Virtual reality clinical-experimental tests of compassion treatment techniques to reduce paranoia
(2020-05)
Paranoia may build on negative beliefs held both about the self and others. Compassionate imagery may be one way of reducing such negative beliefs, and hence paranoia. Two studies tested this idea, one targeting compassion ...
Automated virtual reality therapy to treat agoraphobic avoidance and distress in patients with psychosis (gameChange): a multicentre, parallel-group, single-blind, randomised, controlled trial in England with mediation and moderation analyses
(2022-04)
Automated delivery of psychological therapy using immersive technologies such as virtual reality (VR) might greatly increase the availability of effective help for patients. We aimed to evaluate the efficacy of an automated ...
Body image concerns in patients with persecutory delusions
(2022-04)
Background: Persecutory fears build on feelings of vulnerability that arise from negative views of the self. Body image concerns have the potential to be a powerful driver of feelings of vulnerability. Body image concerns ...
Appraisal of patient-level health economic models of severe mental illness: systematic review
(2021-08)
Healthcare decision makers require accurate long-term economic models to evaluate the cost-effectiveness of new mental health interventions.
Aims
To assess the suitability of current patient-level economic models to ...
The psychological journey of weight gain in psychosis
(2022-02)
Rapid weight gain is common with antipsychotic medication. Lost confidence, low mood and medication non-adherence often follow. Yet, the dynamic interactions between the physical and psychological consequences of weight ...