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Common Humanity as an Under-acknowledged Mechanism for Mental Health Peer Support (2022)
Journal Article
Kotera, Y., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Charles, A., & Slade, M. (2022). Common Humanity as an Under-acknowledged Mechanism for Mental Health Peer Support. International Journal of Mental Health and Addiction, https://doi.org/10.1007/s11469-022-00916-9

Mental health peer support (PS) is a relational approach to recovery. Service users are helped through a relationship focused on connection with a PS worker who shares similar experiences. Despite the strong evidence base, the mechanisms of action fo... Read More about Common Humanity as an Under-acknowledged Mechanism for Mental Health Peer Support.

Embedding lived experience into mental health academic research organizations: Critical reflections (2022)
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Hawke, L. D., Sheikhan, N. Y., Jones, N., Slade, M., Soklaridis, S., Wells, S., & Castle, D. (2022). Embedding lived experience into mental health academic research organizations: Critical reflections. Health Expectations, 25(5), 2299-2305. https://doi.org/10.1111/hex.13586

Background: As part of a growing emphasis on engaging people with lived experience of mental health conditions in mental health research, there are increasing calls to consider and embed lived experience throughout academic research institutes. This... Read More about Embedding lived experience into mental health academic research organizations: Critical reflections.

‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories (2022)
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Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Pollock, K., Ali, Y., Watson, E., Franklin, D., …Edgley, A. (2022). ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories. Qualitative Health Research, 32(12), 1828-1842. https://doi.org/10.1177/10497323221118239

Mental health ‘recovery narratives’ are increasingly used within teaching, learning and practice environments. The mainstreaming of their use has been critiqued by scholars and activists as a co-option of lived experience for organisational purposes.... Read More about ‘Maybe I Shouldn’t Talk’: The Role of Power in the Telling of Mental Health Recovery Stories.

Experiences of peer support workers supporting individuals with substance use disorders in Egypt: phenomenological analysis (2022)
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Ibrahim, N., Selim, A., Ng, F., Kasaby, M., Ali, A. M., Eweida, R., …Slade, M. (2022). Experiences of peer support workers supporting individuals with substance use disorders in Egypt: phenomenological analysis. BMC Health Services Research, 22(1), Article 1012. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12913-022-08393-5

Background: Peer support work for substance use disorders is widely implemented in high-income countries. More research is still needed to understand its applicability in settings which have proportionately low budgets allocated to mental health. Pee... Read More about Experiences of peer support workers supporting individuals with substance use disorders in Egypt: phenomenological analysis.

Impact of clinical decision-making participation and satisfaction on outcomes in mental health practice: results from the CEDAR European longitudinal study (2022)
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Luciano, M., Fiorillo, A., Brandi, C., Di Vincenzo, M., Egerhazi, A., Hiltensperger, R., …Sampogna, G. (2022). Impact of clinical decision-making participation and satisfaction on outcomes in mental health practice: results from the CEDAR European longitudinal study. International Review of Psychiatry, 34(7-8), 848-860. https://doi.org/10.1080/09540261.2022.2085507

The present study aimed to assess: (1) whether a more active involvement of patients is associated with an improvement of clinical symptoms, global functioning, and quality-of-life; and (2) how patients’ satisfaction with clinical decisions can lead... Read More about Impact of clinical decision-making participation and satisfaction on outcomes in mental health practice: results from the CEDAR European longitudinal study.

Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review (2022)
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Charles, A., Hare-Duke, L., Nudds, H., Franklin, D., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Rennick-Egglestone, S., …Slade, M. (2022). Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review. PLoS ONE, 17(5), Article e0266722. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0266722

Content and trigger warnings give information about the content of material prior to receiving it. Different typologies of content warnings have emerged across multiple sectors, including health, social media, education and entertainment. Benefits ar... Read More about Typology of content warnings and trigger warnings: Systematic review.

Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study (2022)
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Ibrahim, N., Ng, F., Selim, A., Ghallab, E., Ali, A., & Slade, M. (2022). Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study. BMC Psychiatry, 22, Article 255. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03919-x

Background: Delivery of recovery-oriented mental health practice is fundamental to personal recovery. Yet, there is lack of service users’ accounts on what constitutes mental health recovery in Egypt. Objectives: The aim of this study was to explore... Read More about Posttraumatic growth and recovery among a sample of Egyptian mental health service users: a phenomenological study.

Character Strength-Focused Positive Psychotherapy on Acute Psychiatric Wards: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study (2022)
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Kouvaras, S., Guiotto, M., Schrank, B., Slade, M., & Riches, S. (2022). Character Strength-Focused Positive Psychotherapy on Acute Psychiatric Wards: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study. Psychiatric Services, 73(9), 1051-1055. https://doi.org/10.1176/appi.ps.202100316

OBJECTIVE: A manualized single-session positive psychotherapy intervention was developed and tested on acute psychiatric wards. METHODS: Participants were invited in 2018-2019 to identify positive experiences, link them to a personal character streng... Read More about Character Strength-Focused Positive Psychotherapy on Acute Psychiatric Wards: A Feasibility and Acceptability Study.

Impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O Trial): updated randomised controlled trial protocol (2022)
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Rennick-Egglestone, S., Elliott, R., Newby, C., Robinson, C., & Slade, M. (2022). Impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O Trial): updated randomised controlled trial protocol. Trials, 23, Article 90. https://doi.org/10.1186/s13063-022-06027-z

Background: Mental health recovery narratives are first-person lived experience accounts of recovery from mental health problems, which refer to events or actions over a period of time, and which include elements of adversity or struggle, and also se... Read More about Impact of receiving recorded mental health recovery narratives on quality of life in people experiencing non-psychosis mental health problems (NEON-O Trial): updated randomised controlled trial protocol.

Associations between personal recovery and service user-rated versus clinician-rated clinical recovery, a cross-sectional study (2022)
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Skar-Fröding, R., Clausen, H., Šaltytė Benth, J., Ruud, T., Slade, M., & Heiervang, K. S. (2022). Associations between personal recovery and service user-rated versus clinician-rated clinical recovery, a cross-sectional study. BMC Psychiatry, 22, Article 42. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-022-03691-y

Background: This study examined the relationship between service user-rated personal recovery and clinician-rated and service user-rated clinical recovery. The relationships between different subdomains of clinical recovery and personal recovery were... Read More about Associations between personal recovery and service user-rated versus clinician-rated clinical recovery, a cross-sectional study.

Positive psychotherapy for psychosis in Hong Kong: A randomized controlled trial (2022)
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Chu, M. H., Lau, B., Leung, J., Chan, S. C., Tang, B., Lau, C. L., …Slade, M. (2022). Positive psychotherapy for psychosis in Hong Kong: A randomized controlled trial. Schizophrenia Research, 240, 175-183. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.schres.2021.12.044

Recovery-oriented practice has been advocated in mental health services in Hong Kong since 2009. Well-being has become an important area of focus for mental health services. Positive Psychotherapy for Psychosis (PPP) is a well-being-focused intervent... Read More about Positive psychotherapy for psychosis in Hong Kong: A randomized controlled trial.

A multi-national peer support intervention: the UPSIDES pilot phase (2022)
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Nixdorf, R., Nugent, L., Aslam, R., Barber, S., Charles, A., Gai Meir, L., …Mahlke, C. (2022). A multi-national peer support intervention: the UPSIDES pilot phase. Advances in Mental Health, 20(1), 2-14. https://doi.org/10.1080/18387357.2021.2020140

Objective. Using Peer Support in Developing Empowering Mental Health Services (UPSIDES) is evaluating implementation of a peer support worker (PSW) intervention at six recruiting sites (Germany, India, Israel, Tanzania, and Uganda) (ISRCTN26008944).... Read More about A multi-national peer support intervention: the UPSIDES pilot phase.

How do recorded mental health recovery narratives create connection and improve hopefulness? (2022)
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Ng, F., Newby, C., Robinson, C., Llewellyn-Beardsley, J., Yeo, C., Roe, J., …Slade, M. (2022). How do recorded mental health recovery narratives create connection and improve hopefulness?. Journal of Mental Health, 31(2), 273-280. https://doi.org/10.1080/09638237.2021.2022627

Background: Mental health recovery narratives are an active ingredient of recovery-oriented interventions such as peer support. Recovery narratives can create connection and hope, but there is limited evidence on the predictors of impact. Aims: The a... Read More about How do recorded mental health recovery narratives create connection and improve hopefulness?.

Proportionate translation of study materials and measures in a multinational global health trial: methodology development and implementation (2022)
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Charles, A., Korde, P., Newby, C., Grayzman, A., Hiltensperger, R., Mahlke, C., …Slade, M. (2022). Proportionate translation of study materials and measures in a multinational global health trial: methodology development and implementation. BMJ Open, 12(1), Article e058083. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2021-058083

Objectives Current translation guidelines do not include sufficiently flexible translation approaches for different study materials. We aimed to develop a proportionate methodology to inform translation of all types of study materials in global healt... Read More about Proportionate translation of study materials and measures in a multinational global health trial: methodology development and implementation.

Post-traumatic growth in psychosis: a systematic review and narrative synthesis (2021)
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Ng, F., Ibrahim, N., Franklin, D., Jordan, G., Lewandowski, F., Fang, F., …Slade, M. (2021). Post-traumatic growth in psychosis: a systematic review and narrative synthesis. BMC Psychiatry, 21, Article 607. https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03614-3

Background and objective: People with psychosis report experiences of highly traumatic events. Positive change or post-traumatic growth (PTG) can occur as a result of traumatic experiences. Yet there is limited attention on PTG in psychosis, possibly... Read More about Post-traumatic growth in psychosis: a systematic review and narrative synthesis.

Conceptual framework for personal recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction (2021)
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Dreyer, R. P., Pavlo, A. J., Horne, A., Dunn, R., Danvers, K., Brush, J., …Davidson, L. (2021). Conceptual framework for personal recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction. Journal of the American Heart Association, 10(19), Article e022354. https://doi.org/10.1161/JAHA.121.022354

BACKGROUND: Although there has been movement in cardiology to advance patient-centered approaches to postacute myo-cardial infarction (AMI) care, work remains to be done in aligning patient preferences with clinical care. Our objective was to charact... Read More about Conceptual framework for personal recovery in patients with acute myocardial infarction.

Uses and Misuses of Recorded Mental Health Lived Experience Narratives in Healthcare and Community Settings: Systematic Review (2021)
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Yeo, C., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Armstrong, V., Borg, M., Franklin, D., Klevan, T., …Slade, M. (2022). Uses and Misuses of Recorded Mental Health Lived Experience Narratives in Healthcare and Community Settings: Systematic Review. Schizophrenia Bulletin, 48(1), 134-144. https://doi.org/10.1093/schbul/sbab097

Mental health lived experience narratives are first-person accounts of people with experience of mental health problems. They have been published in journals, books and online, and used in healthcare interventions and anti-stigma campaigns. There are... Read More about Uses and Misuses of Recorded Mental Health Lived Experience Narratives in Healthcare and Community Settings: Systematic Review.

Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study (2021)
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McGranahan, R., Jakaite, Z., Edwards, A., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Slade, M., & Priebe, S. (2021). Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study. BMJ Open, 11(7), Article e045661. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045661

Objectives Little research has looked at how people who do not use mental health services experience psychosis. Thus, the present study aimed to explore the experiences and views of people with psychosis who have neither sought nor received support f... Read More about Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study.

Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study (2021)
Journal Article
McGranahan, R., Jakaite, Z., Edwards, A., Rennick-Egglestone, S., Slade, M., & Priebe, S. (2021). Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study. BMJ Open, 11(7), Article e045661. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjopen-2020-045661

Objectives Little research has looked at how people who do not use mental health services experience psychosis. Thus, the present study aimed to explore the experiences and views of people with psychosis who have neither sought nor received support f... Read More about Living with Psychosis without Mental Health Services: A Narrative Interview Study.