Improving mental health support

We conduct research to support the development and evaluation of services that support people with mental health problems to recover a quality of life that they want by addressing the things that are important to them.

Publications

Driving Change report

Current projects
ARIADNE: AddRessing the ImpAct of coviD-19 paNdEmic on the access to and experience of mental health care of people from Black, Asian and Minority Ethnic groups
Black Thrive Employment Project: Evaluating community led change to improve employment outcomes
Blueprint: Improving services available to children and young people
Bridging the Gap: Optimising implementation of evidence in children and young people’s mental health
Centring Young People in Mental Health Research
CHOOSE Study: Learning from Covid-19 – Using GP records to improve how services support young people with mental health problems
Community Navigators2: Reducing loneliness in people with depression
Community Transformation Programme realist evaluation
CoRAY: Exploring young people’s experiences of being involved in mental health research
EYE-2: Early Youth Engagement in First Episode Psychosis
Feeling Safe
gameChange: Improving lives through Virtual Reality therapy
Inequalities & Their Impact on Public Mental Health
King’s College London’s Centre for Society and Mental Health
Let’s Talk
Mental Health and Justice
Narrative Experiences Online (NEON)
Partners2 Research Programme
Partnership with WWCSC (What Works for Children’s Social Care)
Phoenix Virtual Reality for Self-Confidence: Developing a VR approach to help young people with psychosis
PsyMetRic Project for Young People
Public Mental Health: what affects a population’s mental health?
Research into Antipsychotic Discontinuation and Reduction
SINAPPS: Immunotherapy for Psychosis
Sleep Well: Improving sleep to reduce young people’s psychosis risk
SPPaRO: Setting Priorities for Paranoia Research
Successful Treatment of Paranoia (STOP)
Support, Comprehensive Care and EmpowErment for people with psychosocial Disabilities in sub-Saharan Africa (SUCCEED Africa)
Supporting Adolescents with Self-Harm (SASH): How to better help teens seeking support from A+E
TYPPEX Study
UK LGBTQ Youth Mental Health Survey
Understanding access to secondary mental health services during and after the Covid-19 pandemic
Universal School Interventions: improving the mental health of young LGBTQ+ people

Completed projects
100 People: Evaluation of employment support
Active Lives, Healthy Minds
AD-CARE
Agency, Social Identity & Justice in Mental Health: A collaboration with young people, clinicians & academics
Birth Companions
Cochrane summaries
Cognitive Bias Modification for Paranoia (CBM-pa)
Collaborating with The Healthcare Improvement Studies (THIS) Institute
Community Health Networks research
Community Navigators: Reducing loneliness in people with depression and anxiety
Connecting People
Crisis Care Concordat evaluation
Decisions about medication during pregnancy
Designing an audio tour for the National Gallery
Driving Change: Global mental health report
IAPT for people with severe mental illness: A service user evaluation
IMPART: Implementing an online support package for carers
Information and Psychosis
Keep Cool: promoting teen mental health during Covid-19
Kent Wellbeing Programme Evaluation
Mental Health and Money Advice: Evaluation of a joined up service
Mental Health Peer Health Coaching Initiative – Evaluation
MumsAid: Evaluation of a perinatal counselling service
My Story, Our Future: a storytelling project about living with psychosis
My Support Broker, Evaluation
Open Space: Evaluation of a library-based wellbeing programme
Peer Mentoring Service at Camden VoiceAbility – A Qualitative Evaluation
Peer Support Employment Groups Evaluation
PEOPLE Study – evaluating personalisation and personal budgets
Perinatal Mental Health: Peer Support Principles
REACH – Resilience, Ethnicity, Adolescence and Mental Health
Research in English NHS Mental Health Trusts
Right People, Right Questions: Research priorities for young people’s mental health
Screen Time: research priorities for screen time and young people’s mental health
Side by Side: A National Evaluation of Peer Support
SLaM Recovery College Evaluation
SLaM’s Wheel of Wellbeing Evaluation
Social support after loss to suicide
Suicide Prevention & Bereavement Support
The Primrose project: severe mental illness and physical health
The TOGether Project: Evaluation of a suicide and self-harm intervention
Thrive London – Employment and Mental Health
Trial of Sertraline versus CBT for generalised Anxiety (ToSCA)
Viewpoint Survey on stigma and discrimination
Violence, abuse and mental health: identifying research priorities
Wellbeing Networks and Mental Health
Women Side by Side: Evaluation of a women’s peer support programme
Work Well
Young people’s anti-stigma campaign
Your Experience in Mind, Survey

Improving mental health support

Publications

Current projects

Completed projects