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The ten harmful myths of psychiatry (2025)
Journal Article
Slade, M. (in press). The ten harmful myths of psychiatry. Journal of Recovery in Mental Health,

Psychiatry has powerfully influenced how mental health issues are conceptualised and addressed internationally. Many people report benefits from mental health assessment and treatment, but other individuals report being harmed by the mental health sy... Read More about The ten harmful myths of psychiatry.

Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT) (2025)
Journal Article
Puschner, B., Nakku, J., Hiltensperger, R., Wolf, P., Adler Ben-Dor, I., Bugeiga, F., Charles, A., Gai Meir, L., Garber-Epstein, P., Goldfarb, Y., Grayzman, A., Hadas-Grundman, S., Haun, M., Heuer, I., Iboma, B., Kalha, J., Kamwaga, L., Korde, P., Kotera, Y., Krumm, S., …Slade, M. (in press). Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT). British Journal of Psychiatry,

Background
Some trials have evaluated peer support for people with mental ill-health in high-income, mainly English-speaking countries, but the quality of the evidence is weak.
Aims
We investigated the effectiveness of UPSIDES peer support in high... Read More about Effectiveness of peer support for people with severe mental health conditions in high-, middle-and low-income countries: a multicentre randomised controlled trial (UPSIDES-RCT).

Recovery-oriented psychiatry: oxymoron or catalyst for change? (2025)
Journal Article
Speyer, H., Roe, D., & Slade, M. (2025). Recovery-oriented psychiatry: oxymoron or catalyst for change?. Lancet Psychiatry, https://doi.org/10.1016/S2215-0366%2825%2900092-6

This Personal View provides a normative and conceptual analysis of the intersection between the recovery movement and psychiatry. Although recovery emerged as a grassroots social justice movement emphasising empowerment and systemic change, psychiatr... Read More about Recovery-oriented psychiatry: oxymoron or catalyst for change?.

Cultural Influences on Fidelity Components in Recovery Colleges: A 28-Country Study (2025)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Ronaldson, A., Takhi, S., Felix, S., Namasaba, M., Lawrence, S., Kellermann, V., Kapka, A., Hayes, D., Dunnett, D., Jebara, T., Murakami, M., Bakolis, I., Repper, J., Meddings, S., Stergiopoulos, V., Brophy, L., De Ruysscher, C., Eplov, L., Toernes, C., …Slade, M. (in press). Cultural Influences on Fidelity Components in Recovery Colleges: A 28-Country Study. General Psychiatry,

Background Recovery Colleges (RCs) support personal recovery through education, skill development and social support for people with mental health problems, carers and staff. Guided by co-production and adult learning principles, RCs represent a rece... Read More about Cultural Influences on Fidelity Components in Recovery Colleges: A 28-Country Study.

“Why shouldn’t I expect a lot from life?” – a qualitative study of what facilitates long-term recovery in first-episode psychosis (2025)
Journal Article
Åsbø, G., Haavind, H., Kruse, S. H., Wold, K. F., Ten, W., Hegelstad, V., Romm, K. L., Slade, M., Ueland, T., Melle, I., & Simonsen, C. (2025). “Why shouldn’t I expect a lot from life?” – a qualitative study of what facilitates long-term recovery in first-episode psychosis. BMC Psychiatry, 25, Article 423. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-025-06681-y

Background

Qualitative research frequently characterises recovery, but more knowledge on subjective experiences of facilitators of long-term recovery in psychosis is needed. This interview study aimed to explore what people with first-episode psyc... Read More about “Why shouldn’t I expect a lot from life?” – a qualitative study of what facilitates long-term recovery in first-episode psychosis.

Recorded mental health recovery narratives for people with mental health problems and informal carers: the NEON research programme including 3 RCTs (2025)
Journal Article
Slade, M., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Ali, Y., Newby, C., Yeo, C., Roe, J., Hui, A., Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Paterson, L., Gavan, S. P., Slade, E., Kotera, Y., Priebe, S., Thornicroft, G., Keppens, J., Elliott, R., Pollock, K., Repper, J., Robotham, D., …Llewellyn-Beardsley, J. (in press). Recorded mental health recovery narratives for people with mental health problems and informal carers: the NEON research programme including 3 RCTs. Programme Grants for Applied Research,

Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to Cross-Cultural Mental Health Recovery Research (2025)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Daryanani, R., Skipper, O., Simpson, J., Takhi, S., McPhilbin, M., Rose-Ingall, B., Namasaba, M., Jepps, J., Kellermann, V., Bhandari, D., Ojio, Y., Ronaldson, A., Guerrero, E., Jebara, T., Henderson, C., Slade, M., & Vilar-Lluch, S. (2025). Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to Cross-Cultural Mental Health Recovery Research. JMIR Formative Research, 9, Article e64087. https://doi.org/10.2196/64087

The purpose of this paper is to demonstrate how Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) frameworks can be used in cross-cultural mental health recovery research. CDA is a qualitative approach that critically appraises how language contributes to produce an... Read More about Applying Critical Discourse Analysis to Cross-Cultural Mental Health Recovery Research.

The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery (2025)
Journal Article
Agergaard Jensen, R. A., Lehn Brand, S., Holm, T., Slade, M., & Kirkegaard Thomsen, D. (2025). The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery. Psychiatric Rehabilitation Journal, 48(1), 13-22. https://doi.org/10.1037/prj0000639

Objective: Personal recovery has become a guiding vision in mental health care, and peer workers play a key role in assisting individuals on their recovery journey. As a component of training to prepare for this role, peer workers need to engage with... Read More about The impact of life story work during peer worker training: Identity reconstruction, social connection, and recovery.

Assessing personal recovery in individuals with severe mental illness: validation of the Dutch Brief INSPIRE-O (2025)
Journal Article
Swildens, W. E., Visser, E., Van Ens, W., Schaefer, B., Nugter, A., Delespaul, P., Van Weeghel, J., Slade, M., & Sanches, S. A. (2025). Assessing personal recovery in individuals with severe mental illness: validation of the Dutch Brief INSPIRE-O. Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Epidemiology, https://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-025-02815-5

Purpose

Recovery is a key objective in mental health services for people with severe mental illness (SMI). In addition to clinical and functional recovery, personal recovery has gained increasing attention. The CHIME Framework identifies five pers... Read More about Assessing personal recovery in individuals with severe mental illness: validation of the Dutch Brief INSPIRE-O.

Personal Explanations for Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis (2025)
Journal Article
Ingall, B.-R., McPhilbin, M., Lewandowski, F., Kotera, Y., Jordan, G., Slade, M., & Ng, F. (2025). Personal Explanations for Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis. Schizophrenia Bulletin Open, 6(1), Article sgaf006. https://doi.org/10.1093/schizbullopen/sgaf006

Background and Hypothesis
Psychosis refers to the state whereby one’s experience of reality differs from those around them. The ineffability of psychosis does not render the experience void of meaning, and the ways individuals integrate their experi... Read More about Personal Explanations for Psychosis: A Systematic Review and Thematic Synthesis.

Beyond symptom improvement: transdiagnostic and disorder-specific ways to assess functional and quality of life outcomes across mental disorders in adults (2024)
Journal Article
Correll, C. U., Cortese, S., Solmi, M., Boldrini, T., Demyttenaere, K., Domschke, K., Fusar-Poli, P., Gorwood, P., Harvey, P. D., Keefe, R. S. E., Knaevelsrud, C., Kotov, R., Nohr, L., Rhee, T. G., Roe, D., Rose, M., Schneider, L. S., Slade, M., Stein, D. J., Sunkel, C., & Mcintyre, R. S. (in press). Beyond symptom improvement: transdiagnostic and disorder-specific ways to assess functional and quality of life outcomes across mental disorders in adults. World Psychiatry,

Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of online recorded recovery narratives in improving quality of life for people with psychosis experience (NEON Trial): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial (2024)
Journal Article
Slade, M., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Robinson, C., Newby, C., Elliott, R. A., Ali, Y., Yeo, C., Glover, T., Gavan, S. P., Paterson, L., Pollock, K., Priebe, S., Thornicroft, G., Keppens, J., Smuk, M., Franklin, D., Walcott, R., Harrison, J., Robotham, D., Bradstreet, S., …Ng, F. (2024). Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of online recorded recovery narratives in improving quality of life for people with psychosis experience (NEON Trial): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial. Lancet Regional Health – Europe, 47(47), Article 101101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2024.101101

Background
The Narrative Experiences Online (NEON) Intervention provides self-managed web-based access to mental health recovery narratives (n = 659). We evaluated effectiveness and cost-effectiveness in improving quality of life for adults resident... Read More about Effectiveness and cost-effectiveness of online recorded recovery narratives in improving quality of life for people with psychosis experience (NEON Trial): a pragmatic randomised controlled trial.

Taking what you get or Getting what you Need: A Qualitative Study on Experiences with Mental Health and Welfare Services in Long-Term Recovery in First-Episode Psychosis (2024)
Journal Article
Åsbø, G., Haavind, H., Kruse, S. H., Wold, K. F., ten Velden Hegelstad, W., Romm, K. L., Slade, M., Ueland, T., Melle, I., & Simonsen, C. (2025). Taking what you get or Getting what you Need: A Qualitative Study on Experiences with Mental Health and Welfare Services in Long-Term Recovery in First-Episode Psychosis. Community Mental Health Journal, 61(2), 350–364. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10597-024-01356-6

How people in long-term recovery (clinical and personal) in first-episode psychosis (schizophrenia and bipolar spectrum disorders) experience the mental health and welfare services they interact with is not frequently studied but has significant impl... Read More about Taking what you get or Getting what you Need: A Qualitative Study on Experiences with Mental Health and Welfare Services in Long-Term Recovery in First-Episode Psychosis.

Measuring fidelity to manualised peer support for people with severe mental health conditions: development and psychometric evaluation of the UPSIDES Fidelity Scale (2024)
Journal Article
Hiltensperger, R., Kotera, Y., Wolf, P., Nixdorf, R., Charles, A., Farkas, M., Grayzman, A., Kalha, J., Korde, P., Mahlke, C., Moran, G., Mpango, R., Mtei, R., Ryan, G., Shamba, D., Wenzel, L., Slade, M., & Puschner, B. (2024). Measuring fidelity to manualised peer support for people with severe mental health conditions: development and psychometric evaluation of the UPSIDES Fidelity Scale. BMC Psychiatry, 24, Article 675. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-024-06081-8

Background. Peer support workers provide support for people experiencing mental health conditions based on their own lived experience of mental health problems. Assessing fidelity to core ingredients of peer support is vital for successful implementa... Read More about Measuring fidelity to manualised peer support for people with severe mental health conditions: development and psychometric evaluation of the UPSIDES Fidelity Scale.

28-country global study on associations between cultural characteristics and Recovery College fidelity (2024)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Ronaldson, A., Hayes, D., Hunter-Brown, H., McPhilbin, M., Dunnett, D., Jebara, T., Takhi, S., Masuda, T., Camacho, E., Bakolis, I., Repper, J., Meddings, S., Stergiopoulos, V., Brophy, L., De Ruysscher, C., Okoliyski, M., Kubinová, P., Eplov, L., Narusson, D., …Slade, M. (2024). 28-country global study on associations between cultural characteristics and Recovery College fidelity. npj Mental Health Research, 3(1), Article 46. https://doi.org/10.1038/s44184-024-00092-9

Recovery Colleges (RCs) are learning-based mental health recovery communities, located globally. However, evidence on RC effectiveness outside Western, educated, industrialised, rich, and democratic (WEIRD) countries is limited. This study aimed to e... Read More about 28-country global study on associations between cultural characteristics and Recovery College fidelity.

The potential of citizen mental health science (2024)
Report
Batty, R., Florescu, A., Gulliksen, E., Wong, A., Kamvar, R., Pinfold, V., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Slade, M., & Todowede, O. (2024). The potential of citizen mental health science. London: Wellcome Trust

Characteristics of positive feedback provided by UK health service users: content analysis of examples from two databases (2024)
Journal Article
Lloyd, R., Slade, M., Byng, R., Russell, A., Ng, F., Stirzaker, A., & Rennick-Egglestone, S. (2024). Characteristics of positive feedback provided by UK health service users: content analysis of examples from two databases. BMJ Health & Care Informatics, 31(1), Article e101113. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2024-101113

Background: Most feedback received by health services is positive. Our systematic scoping review mapped all available empirical evidence for how positive patient feedback creates healthcare change. Most included papers did not provide specific detail... Read More about Characteristics of positive feedback provided by UK health service users: content analysis of examples from two databases.

Paving the Road While Walking – Perspectives from Flexible Assertive Community Treatment Managers on Preparing the Implementation of Peer Support Work (PSW) in Outpatient Services (2024)
Journal Article
Johansen, K. K., Lerbaek, B., Slade, M., Castelein, S., & Jørgensen, R. (2024). Paving the Road While Walking – Perspectives from Flexible Assertive Community Treatment Managers on Preparing the Implementation of Peer Support Work (PSW) in Outpatient Services. Issues in Mental Health Nursing, 45(11), 1148-1154. https://doi.org/10.1080/01612840.2024.2391848

This qualitative study explored the perspectives of Flexible Assertive Community Treatment managers on preparation and employment of peer support workers. The study was based on semi-structured interviews with managers (n = 5) in Outpatient Services... Read More about Paving the Road While Walking – Perspectives from Flexible Assertive Community Treatment Managers on Preparing the Implementation of Peer Support Work (PSW) in Outpatient Services.