Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-06-30DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2361225
Mitch N Lases, Jojanneke Bruins, Floortje E Scheepers, Nienke van Sambeek, Fiona Ng, Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Mike Slade, Ingrid D C van Balkom, Stynke Castelein
{"title":"Is personal recovery a transdiagnostic concept? Testing the fit of the CHIME framework using narrative experiences.","authors":"Mitch N Lases, Jojanneke Bruins, Floortje E Scheepers, Nienke van Sambeek, Fiona Ng, Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Mike Slade, Ingrid D C van Balkom, Stynke Castelein","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361225","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361225","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Personal recovery is operationalized in the CHIME framework (connectedness, hope, identity, meaning in life, and empowerment) of recovery processes. CHIME was initially developed through analysis of experiences of people mainly with psychosis, but it might also be valid for investigating recovery in mood-related, autism and other diagnoses.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To examine whether personal recovery is transdiagnostic by studying narrative experiences in several diagnostic groups.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Thirty recovery narratives, retrieved from \"Psychiatry Story Bank\" (PSB) in the Netherlands, were analyzed by three coders using CHIME as a deductive framework. New codes were assigned using an inductive approach and member checks were performed after consensus was reached.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>All five CHIME dimensions were richly reported in the narratives, independent of diagnosis. Seven new domains were identified, such as \"acknowledgement by diagnosis\" and \"gaining self-insight\". These new domains were evaluated to fit well as subdomains within the original CHIME framework. On average, 54.2% of all narrative content was classified as experienced difficulties.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Recovery stories from different diagnostic perspectives fit well into the CHIME framework, implying that personal recovery is a transdiagnostic concept. Difficulties should not be ignored in the context of personal recovery based on its substantial presence in the recovery narratives.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"254-262"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141471625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-06-04DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2361235
Tania Perich, Karl Andriessen
{"title":"The impact of family history of mental illness on mental health help seeking in university students.","authors":"Tania Perich, Karl Andriessen","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361235","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361235","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>University students with a family history of mental illness may have an increased risk of developing mental health problems.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>The aim of the study was to assess differences in mental health help seeking among students with a family history of mental illness compared to those without a family history.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A total of 1127 university students, aged 18 to 30 years, completed an online survey with questions about mental illness, family history of mental illness, help seeking, and psychological symptoms.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Students with a family history of mental illness were more likely to report clinically significant symptoms and more likely to use social media and online support programs. They reported similar rates of in-person help seeking. Those with more than one family member with a mental illness reported greater symptom severity, more use of online programs, and increased likelihood of prescription drug use than those with only one family member.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>More research is needed to understand how to increase access to mental health care and to address barriers to help-seeking considering family history of mental illness. University students may not be accessing appropriate treatment and care as required, with the rates of in-person help-seeking being low overall.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"247-253"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141236226","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-08-19DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2390366
Susanna Alyce, Daniel Taggart, Jackie Turton
{"title":"Trust, entrusting and the role of trustworthiness for adult survivors of child sexual abuse.","authors":"Susanna Alyce, Daniel Taggart, Jackie Turton","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2390366","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2390366","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Survivors of Child Sexual Abuse (CSA) are reported to have difficulties in trusting. Yet no previous study investigating CSA survivors' subjective experiences of trust exists and there is a paucity of clinical research into constructs and definitions of \"trust.\"</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>To use a phenomenological lens to investigate CSA survivors' descriptions of trust relationships and trustworthy others by privileging their subjective experience. To better understand how trust can be built within therapeutic relationships.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>A qualitative methodology using Interpretative Phenomenological Analysis was conducted within the survivor-research paradigm. The researcher was a person with lived experience of CSA who co-produced the study with CSA survivor advisors and co-constructed interviews with 17 adult CSA survivors.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Findings present a \"Survivor Trust Enactment Model\" that delineates the process of building/repairing relational trust and advancing \"transactional trust.\" Trust is portrayed as nuanced and formed across and according to context, including the demarcation of generalised and relational trust. The findings emphasise that trustees' trustworthiness is key to building trust which challenges assumptions that survivors are deficient in trust.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>The foregrounding of subjective trust experiences challenges diagnostic and clinical views on trust deficiency in adult CSA survivors. The study develops clinical constructs of trust, considers implications for clinical practice, and indicates areas for further research into trust dynamics in therapeutic relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"263-272"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142001088","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-06-04DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2361229
Kirsten A Mengell, Muchaneta M N Chikawa, Jenna N Weinstein, RoShonda Welch, Stacy W Smallwood, Andrew R Hansen
{"title":"A systematic review of rural community-based mental health interventions in the United States.","authors":"Kirsten A Mengell, Muchaneta M N Chikawa, Jenna N Weinstein, RoShonda Welch, Stacy W Smallwood, Andrew R Hansen","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361229","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361229","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Mental health impacts a person's quality of life and ability to engage in healthy behaviors. Rural communities in the United States have limited access to mental and behavioral health treatment.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To conduct a systematic review to identify existing rural community-based mental health interventions and identify commonalities and differences by extracting study attributes and intervention components.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>March 2022 CINAHL, EMBASE, PsycInfo, Scopus, and Academic Search Complete were searched for studies that met the inclusion criteria of rural, community-based mental health interventions in the United States.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Ten publications satisfied the criteria for this review. The most common intervention components identified were peer interaction, developed coping skills, and activity-based interventions.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>While this review excluded a meta-analysis, it did illuminate the components of existing community-based mental health interventions and highlighted gaps in the current research. Our findings suggest that future community-based mental health interventions would benefit from the inclusion of peer interaction, coping skills development, activity-based, cultural & historical context, service referral, and spirituality.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"295-304"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141248592","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-06-13DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2361232
Pika Novriani Lubis, Maman Saputra, Muhammad Waqas Rabbani
{"title":"A systematic review of the benefits of breastfeeding against postpartum depression in low-middle-income countries.","authors":"Pika Novriani Lubis, Maman Saputra, Muhammad Waqas Rabbani","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361232","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361232","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>The positive impact of breastfeeding against postpartum depression has been increasingly reported. However, no studies have systematically and critically examined current evidence on breastfeeding practices' influences on postpartum depression in LMICs.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>To review the influence of breastfeeding on postpartum depression in LMICs.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>We searched original research in English published over the last ten years (2012 - 2022) within 8 databases: EBSCOhost, EMBASE, Pubmed, Sage Journals, Science Direct, APA PsycArticles, Taylor & Francis, Google Scholar, and citation tracking. The risk of bias assessment used The Newcastle Ottawa Scale and The Modified Jadad Scale. We followed the PRISMA statement after the protocol had been registered on the PROSPERO. The review included 21 of 11015 articles.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Of 21 articles, 16 examined breastfeeding practices, 2 each investigated breastfeeding self-efficacy and breastfeeding education, and 1 each assessed breastfeeding attitude and breastfeeding support. 3 randomized control trials and 5 cohorts revealed that breastfeeding decreased the EPDS scores. However, 4 cross-sectional studies indicated that breastfeeding is nonsignificantly associated with postpartum depression.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>This review indicated that breastfeeding may alleviate or prevent postpartum depression. Our findings indicated that integrating breastfeeding-related programs and policies into postpartum depression prevention may benefit public health.</p><p><strong>Registration: </strong>PROSPERO (CRD42022315143).</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"305-317"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141311961","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-07-16DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2361233
Caroline Yeo, Ashleigh Charles, Felix Lewandowski, Pesach Lichtenberg, Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Mike Slade, Yue Tang, Jijian Voronka, Lucelia Rodrigues
{"title":"Healing Houses systematic review: design, sustainability, opportunities and barriers facing Soteria and peer respite development.","authors":"Caroline Yeo, Ashleigh Charles, Felix Lewandowski, Pesach Lichtenberg, Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Mike Slade, Yue Tang, Jijian Voronka, Lucelia Rodrigues","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361233","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2361233","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Soteria houses and peer respites, collectively called Healing Houses, are alternatives to psychiatric hospitalisation.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>The aim of this research is to review Healing Houses in relation to design characteristics (architectural and service), sustainability and development opportunities and barriers.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>This systematic review followed a PROSPERO protocol (CRD42022378089). Articles were identified from journal database searches, hand searching websites, Google Scholar searches, expert consultation and backwards and forward citation searches.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Eight hundred and forty-nine documents were screened in three languages (English, German and Hebrew) and 45 documents were included from seven countries. The review highlights 11 architectural design characteristics (atmosphere, size, soft room, history, location, outdoor space, cleanliness, interior design, facilities, staff only areas and accessibility), six service design characteristics (guiding principles, living and working together, consensual treatment, staff, supporting personal meaning making and power), five opportunities (outcomes, human rights, economics, hospitalization and underserved) and four types of barriers (clinical, economic and regulatory, societal and ideological). The primary sustainability issue was long-term funding.</p><p><strong>Conclusion: </strong>Future research should focus on operationalizing a \"home-like\" atmosphere and the impact of design features such as green spaces on wellbeing of staff and service users. Future research could also produce design guidelines for Healing Houses.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"318-329"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141628097","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-03-13DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2025.2460124
Romany Murray, Victoria Clarke, Charlotte Flothmann
{"title":"\"I am secretary, therapist, maid, nurse\": a qualitative exploration of lived experiences of caring for a family member with a BPD diagnosis.","authors":"Romany Murray, Victoria Clarke, Charlotte Flothmann","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2025.2460124","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2025.2460124","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Informal caring is an increasingly common phenomenon. Experiences of mental health caring are not well-researched, and few studies focus on experiences of family carers supporting individuals with a Borderline Personality Disorder (BPD) diagnosis.</p><p><strong>Aims: </strong>This research explores lived experiences of people in caring roles for family members diagnosed with BPD.</p><p><strong>Methods: </strong>Seventy-two participants who identified as carers to a loved one diagnosed with BPD completed an online qualitative survey. Six of these participants took part in follow-up interviews, and three completed a follow-up survey. Survey responses and interviews were compiled and analysed using reflexive thematic analysis.</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>Two main themes were developed. \"Labour of Love\" involved experiences of burden and strain, and \"Self as Secondary\" incorporated feeling unheard and obliged to censor one's own behaviours.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>Overall, this research broadens awareness of how a mental health diagnosis and a diagnosis of BPD specifically can have a broader, systemic impact on not only the individuals diagnosed, but their families and those providing support to them, and suggests that provision of support by healthcare providers to carers is necessary.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"287-294"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143626567","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2025-05-31DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2025.2512322
Gil Grunfeld, Daniel Fulford
{"title":"The multifaceted contributors to narrative identity disruption in psychosis.","authors":"Gil Grunfeld, Daniel Fulford","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2025.2512322","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2025.2512322","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"241-246"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"144192340","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-09-28DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2408245
María M Hurtado, Amelia Villena, Casta Quemada, José Miguel Morales-Asencio
{"title":"Personal relationships during and after an initial psychotic episode. First-person experiences.","authors":"María M Hurtado, Amelia Villena, Casta Quemada, José Miguel Morales-Asencio","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2408245","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2408245","url":null,"abstract":"<p><strong>Background: </strong>Psychosis is often associated with loneliness, the absence of a confidant and a perceived lack of social support. In addition, the social isolation and solitude experienced can aggravate internalised stigma, depressive symptoms and/or suicidal tendencies, and worsen the course of the disorder.</p><p><strong>Aim: </strong>This study explores the experiences and perceptions of persons with psychosis concerning how their interpersonal relationships have evolved from the earliest symptoms of the disorder to its subsequent clinical stabilisation.</p><p><strong>Method: </strong>A qualitative content analysis was performed of the findings from five focus groups and six in-depth interviews (36 participants).</p><p><strong>Results: </strong>In the prodrome and initial symptoms stage, five themes were coded: social withdrawal, loss of friends, loss of personal skills, communication difficulties and breakdown of life project. During the recovery phase, four themes were coded: family support, partner support, loneliness and the desire for more close relationships. Finally, during the clinical stabilisation phase, three themes were coded: the recovery of interpersonal relationships, including with peers; reconstruction of the life project and increased interpersonal sensitivity.</p><p><strong>Conclusions: </strong>These findings highlight the impact that psychosis can have on social life and show that recovery is also related to the development of maeningful interpersonal relationships.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"280-286"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337089","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Journal of Mental HealthPub Date : 2025-06-01Epub Date: 2024-09-30DOI: 10.1080/09638237.2024.2408236
Amit Yaniv-Rosenfeld, Elizaveta Savchenko, Amir Elalouf, Uri Nitzan
{"title":"Socio-demographic predictors of the time interval between successive hospitalizations among patients with borderline personality disorder.","authors":"Amit Yaniv-Rosenfeld, Elizaveta Savchenko, Amir Elalouf, Uri Nitzan","doi":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2408236","DOIUrl":"10.1080/09638237.2024.2408236","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p><b>Background:</b> Borderline personality disorder (BPD) affects 0.7 to 2.7% of the adult population and higher rates are reported in inpatient care. Hospitalizations of BPD patients are a complex and controversial challenge for mental health professionals. Recurrent hospitalizations are common and it is essential to identify risk factors that characterize patients who benefit from their hospitalization and those who return to the ward shortly after discharge. <b>Aim:</b> To investigate the potential link between BPD patients' socio-demographic factors and the expected time interval between their successive hospitalizations. <b>Methods:</b> A retrospective analysis of 1051 hospitalization records from 174 BPD patients. Through univariate, bivariate, and multivariate analyses, we investigated the possible relationship between patients' primary socio-demographic factors and the time between their successive hospitalizations. <b>Results:</b> Patients' age, marital status, and living arrangement were found to be statistically connected with the time interval between successive hospitalizations. Specifically, being older, married and/or patients to live with one's spouse/partner seem to be linked with a longer time interval between successive hospitalizations compared to patients who are young, single/divorced and/or those who live with their parents. <b>Conclusions:</b> The expected time interval between successive hospitalization of BPD patients can be partly explained by their socio-demographic characteristics.</p>","PeriodicalId":48135,"journal":{"name":"Journal of Mental Health","volume":" ","pages":"273-279"},"PeriodicalIF":2.9,"publicationDate":"2025-06-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142337104","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"医学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}