Persons with mental disorders and assisted dying practices in Spain: In response to Ramos et al.

Ramos et al. paper offers a narrative review of Spanish Organic Law 3/2021, which regulates euthanasia, focusing on its application to individuals with mental disorders. Ramos et al.

Human-Animal Bond Generated in a Brief Animal-Assisted Therapy Intervention in Adolescents with Mental Health Disorders.

Background: The human-animal bond is crucial for the proper development of animal-assisted therapy (AAT) sessions. However, in specific cases such as in AAT focused on psychiatric patients who are admitted to acute units, there is only a short period of time available to establish this bond.

Objectives: To assess the degree of HAB generated after two AAT sessions in adolescents admitted to acute psychiatry units.

A pilot study of the efficacy of an adventure therapy programme on borderline personality disorder: A pragmatic controlled clinical trial.

Adventure therapy (AT) is a therapeutic intervention that has demonstrated effectiveness in different populations, but there are no studies on this therapy in borderline personality disorder (BPD). The objective of this study was to assess the response to AT in comparison with treatment as usual (based on cognitive-behavioural therapy) in patients with BPD. Regarding the comparison of the differences post-therapy-pre-therapy between both groups, some metabolic variables improved more in the AT group, with medium-large effect sizes.