Max Birchwood

TL;DR: The residual symptom group absorbed less information about symptoms than did the symptom group, suggesting a selectivity of information assimilation according to their pre-existing constructions of their illness.

TL;DR: Findings are in line with the ‘affect regulation’ hypothesis for UP disorder and deliberate self-harm and may help in understanding the mode of action of CBT in BP disorder and to further improve the therapy, primarily through the promotion of affective regulation, which is one component of the complex CBT intervention.

TL;DR: Early intervention services should focus on actively establishing relationships between service users and either the community mental health team or the GP in the months leading up to discharge, and ensuring that service users' expectations about access and availability of care are 'realistic'.

TL;DR: The results support the importance of assessing shame as a multi-faceted construct and suggest that assessing shame directly associated with mental illness is a worthwhile endeavour.

TL;DR: The results suggest that the recruitment strategy and implementation of the educational intervention are feasible and acceptable in a primary care setting and will provide robust information about the efficacy of an evidence-based complex educational intervention targeted at general practitioners on referral rates of young people with first episode psychosis to Early Intervention Services.