This web site is aimed at anyone providing support to someone experiencing mental illness. It contains information about mental health and mental illness, research findings from the Institute of Psychiatry and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust and personal stories written by carers.
Professor Philippa Garety, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London, along with colleagues, has published an important new muti-centre study, funded by the Wellcome Trust. The research written up in this paper aimed to test the effectiveness of CBT and family intervention in reducing relapse rates in patients with psychosis. It also aimed to examineimprovements in symptoms and coping in patients who had recently relapsed.
A study by the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London indicates that community-based early intensive behavioural interventions (EIBI) is beneficial for some children with autism, although findings show that specialist, relatively intensive nursery provision in the UK also produces similar outcomes.
A team of researchers have developed a questionnaire that can be used to identify young adult undergraduates who are at risk of alcohol-related problems. The research was carried out by Dr Patricia Conrod from the Institute of Psychiatry, along with colleagues from the University of Washington in the United States, the University of British Colombia and Dalhousie University, both in Canada.
Stigma is best defined as three things:
This section contains information about several ways in which stigma is experienced by people with mental health problems.
The Mental Health Foundation have published an information leaflet on the topic of stigma, written by Professor Graham Thornicroft.
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