Psychotherapy - Need for Discussion about Potential Harmful Side-Effects SOURCE: Alex Langford and Keith Laws in the Mental Elf

If a treatment is powerful enough to have a good effect, then it’s powerful enough to have a bad effect. This is well recognised when it comes to medication, with strict regulations in place to ensure adverse outcomes are monitored and measured.  By contrast, psychotherapy has never been as readily associated with the potential to cause harm.


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Peer Support in Serious Mental Illness shows little clinical effectiveness according to recent systematic review - SOURCE Liz Hughes in The Mental Elf

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New Research and Practice Developments Symposium Friday 6 June 12.00-5.00pm at the Tavistock Center - Mothers Subject to Successive Removal of Infants and Children in Care Proceedings

There is growing national concern about birth mothers who appear and re-appear before the family court, losing successive children to public care and adoption. Establishing a national co-ordinated prevention agenda will bring clear benefits for birth mothers, their children and informal networks, as well as reducing demand on services.