A pilot study exploring the utility of a ‘therapeutic research group’ intervention for people experiencing psychosis related difficulties.

Abstract

A pilot study exploring the utility of a 'therapeutic research group' intervention for people experiencing psychosis related difficulties.

A systematic scoping review exploring how people with lived experience have been involved in prison and forensic mental health research

“…Overall, we found little evidence of an increase in number of studies in academic journals in which people with lived experience of forensic systems had been explicitly involved in the research being reported. This was particularly notable for forensic mental health patients with only two relevant papers published in 7 years out of the 675 originally retrieved papers (Abram et al, 2020;Tearle et al, 2020). Vanstone et al (2023) found 314 health research papers (published in peer reviewed journals between 2000 and 2021) where patients were cited as partners; of these 80 were research relating to mental health conditions.…”

“…Three studies (Abram et al, 2020;Edge et al, 2020;Tearle et al, 2020) provided detailed information about the impact that the lived-experience researchers had on the research over and above describing what they did.…”

“…One (Abram et al, 2020) described these researchers as taking more responsibility as weeks progressed, finding that people with lived-experience were able to conduct research with some autonomy with very little involvement from staff. The lived-experience researchers at the design stage, decided to develop a new measure and gave advice on engaging participants based on their own experiences.…”

“…Six did not appear to have been co-authored even though lived-experience researchers clearly made a significant contribution. In two papers it was unclear (Abram et al, 2020;Janssen et al, 2017). Four papers were explicit about the names of the lived-experience researchers (Crabtree et al, 2016;Edge et al, 2020;Forsyth et al, 2017Forsyth et al, , 2020, whilst others avoided specifying which co-authors had lived experience (e.g.…”

Change and (the need for) adaptability: the new normal

“…Three articles in this issue present program evaluations. Bazley and Pakenham (2020) describe the results of a feasibility study of an ACT-based suicide prevention program for Christian faith-based organisations, Abram et al (2020) explored the feasibility and acceptability of using research as the basis of a therapeutic group intervention for those hearing voices/ auditory hallucinations and Dorozenko, Martin, Gillieatt, and Milbourn (2020) report an evaluation of a 15-week residential program designed to promote personal recovery. Health service providers are increasingly looking for new ways of working to improve quality and each of these provide innovative examples of such approaches.…”