There's a bumper bag of mental health materiel for your consideration today.
First up, a new meta analysis suggests longer term psychodynamic psychotherapy is more effective for complex mental health problems than shorter term approaches. This is potentially important news because longer-term therapy has sometimes struggled to establish an evidence base. There has also been more emphasis on shorter term approaches recently, particularly in the government's CBT initiative, although that is admittedly focused on milder mental health conditions.
First up, a new meta analysis suggests longer term psychodynamic psychotherapy is more effective for complex mental health problems than shorter term approaches. This is potentially important news because longer-term therapy has sometimes struggled to establish an evidence base. There has also been more emphasis on shorter term approaches recently, particularly in the government's CBT initiative, although that is admittedly focused on milder mental health conditions.
Elsewhere, eye wiggling may help with trauma, and there is yet another book on happiness. This latest offering suggests there can be a link between wealth and happiness and too much happiness may not be a good thing. Well, there's no chance of that particular problem afflicting Mad World.
Spo-Reflections considers the impact of the death of a patient and Furious Seasons questions the increasing medicalisation of antisocial behaviour. Do young troublemakers just need an injection to sort em out?
Finally, smoking increases the risk of major depressive disorder in women, new research says.
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