Evaluation of a Skills Enhancement Training Intervention With Remote Coaching for Young Adults Providing Peer Support.

This column reports on a study that investigated a skills enhancement and role clarification training intervention for young adult peer support specialists (YPSSs). Young adults who had received intensive mental health services—including young adults who had experience as YPSSs—were partners in developing the intervention and in completing all aspects of the study. Study participants were YPSSs who were already providing one-on-one, person-centered planning in community settings before the study.

Qualitative analysis of the Meals, Mindfulness, & Moving Forward (M ) lifestyle programme: Cultivating a 'safe space' to start on a 'new path' for youth with early episode psychosis.

Aim: The Meals, Mindfulness, & Moving Forward (M ) programme included nutrition education, hands-on cooking classes, mindfulness meditation practice, physical activities and facilitated group sharing. M was designed as a supplement to standard care for youths (age 15-25 years) with first-episode psychosis (FEP) who were clients of coordinated specialty care teams. M 's primary aim was feasibility by demonstrating high programme attendance; secondary aims included cardiometabolic measures.

Meals, Mindfulness, & Moving Forward: A feasibility study to a multi-modal lifestyle approach in early psychosis.

Aim: The primary aim was to demonstrate adherence to a novel 6-week lifestyle intervention program ("Meals, Mindfulness, & Moving Forward" [M ]) designed to help improve lifestyle practices of youth with a history of at least 1 psychotic episode.

Methods: M used a non-equivalent control group design involving clients from a community early intervention program. Seventeen individuals in the active M program and 16 controls were assessed for secondary outcomes at baseline, 6-weeks, and 12-weeks (6 weeks post-intervention) on cardiometabolic and symptomatic outcomes.