Research News

Are you able to help with NICE research into self harm?

Tuesday, 15 May 2012 10:00

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE), responsible for setting guidelines for treatment, recently published new guidelines for the treatment of those that self-harm.

As a consequence, NICE is now looking for relatives or partners of those that have self harmed either as a young person or as an adult to be involved in research into this issue through sharing their experiences.

If you are interested then further information and an application form can be found at:
www.nice.org.uk/getinvolved/joinnwc/laymemberselfharmTEG.isp

DEADLINE FOR APPLYING: 21/5/2012

Would you like to part in BPD research?

Monday, 20 February 2012 16:09

Do you have a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder? If so, would you like to take part in some research?

Oliver Bonnington, a PhD student at King’s College London, is currently conducting a study looking at the experiences of stigma and discrimination amongst people who have a received a diagnosis of Borderline Personality Disorder.

If you would like to take part, or would like to know more about the study, please feel free to get in touch with Oliver using the contact details provide at the bottom of the page.

Have you experienced a talking therapy which you feel has gone wrong in some way or been harmful?

Monday, 09 January 2012 18:21

Researchers from the University of Sheffield are exploring what happens when therapy 'goes wrong' – this will help us to develop some practical ways to identify and prevent therapies from failing.

If you have had such an experience, either as a client or therapist, and you live in England, please take part in our study by completing the questionnaire, available from http://www.shef.ac.uk/scharr/sections/hsr/mh/mhresearch/adept

The deadline for receipt of completed questionnaires is May 2012.

Does the Care Programme Approach support recovery? New research launched

Tuesday, 08 November 2011 15:59

This new research seeks to explore whether service users find the Care Programme Approach (CPA) helps them to recover. It follows concerns raised by a considerable number of service users who state that the CPA has not supported them in the past.

Advertising for a Service User Researcher at SWLSTG

Thursday, 27 October 2011 17:30

Evaluation project:

Identifying the impacts and benefits of an integrated Self-Management Programme for Long Term Conditions in Mental Health

Job Description

Title: Research Assistant (Service User Researcher) – PART TIME

Background

This evaluation project has been commissioned by South West London and St George’s Mental Health NHS Trust (SWLSTG) and The Health Foundation. SWLSTG is funded by The Health Foundation as one of 10 national pilot sites for new self-management programmes (SMPs) for long term conditions. SWLSTG is one of two sites developing SMPs for depression. An SMP is a short course co-facilitated by a lay-tutor that helps people to set goals and develop their own strategies to self-manage their condition. We have referred to this course as an integrated SMP because SWLSTG will also be training the health care professionals that usually work with the people attending the programme to support them in their self-management.

We will be evaluating the SMP as two new groups of people go through the programme. This will be a mixed methods evaluation. SMP participants will complete a number of standardised measures of mental health and psychosocial outcomes, as well as questionnaires about the services they use at the beginning of the programme, when it finishes and again six months later. We will also carry out one to one interviews and focus groups with SMP participants and the health care professionals trained as part of the programme.