Perspective on digital communication with health professions from close supporters of young people with long-term health conditions (The LYNC Study).

Objective: To understand the impact of digital communication using email and text between young people and their health care team on those in close supporting roles.

Methods: Twelve people (nine parents and three partners) of young people with long-term health conditions were interviewed between November 2014 and March 2016. Thematic analysis was performed followed Braun and Clarke's (2006) 6-phase method.

The contribution of peer trainers to the Tree of Life project for young people living with Type 1 Diabetes: Building community.

This paper describes the involvement of peer trainers in Tree of Life groups for young people living with Type 1 Diabetes. The approach is informed by narrative therapy and collective narrative practice and principles, where people are seen as separate from problems and the focus is on creating opportunities for people to tell and witness one another's preferred identity stories. Young people who have participated in a Tree of Life day are invited to join the project as peer trainers who help facilitate, engage group participants, witness their stories and consult to the project.

Supporting young people living with cancer to tell their stories in ways that make them stronger: The Beads of Life approach.

This article describes the 'Beads of Life' approach--a five-part methodology informed by narrative therapy to enable children and young people to make sense of their cancer journey in ways that make them stronger. Young people are invited to use beads as prompts to tell preferred stories of their identity to create a safe place to stand from which to story their cancer journey. The approach positions young people as experts in their lives.

Information about male chronic pelvic and urogenital pain on the Internet: an evaluation of Internet resources.

Objective:   The objective of this study was to describe and evaluate the Internet resources available to patients searching for information about chronic urogenital/pelvic pain.

Design:   As far as possible, we applied systematic review methods to search, retrieve, sort, and critique Websites, using common search engines and terms in the English language. Evaluation from a patient viewpoint focused particularly on the quality of explanations for chronic urogenital/pelvic pain in men, and on the psychological content of the Websites.

Psychiatric symptomatology in borderline and other personality disorders: dissociation and fragmentation as mediators.

This study considered the role of dissociation and personality fragmentation as psychological factors that might distinguish borderline and personality disorder (BPD) patients, and that might explain why BPD patients have higher levels of other psychiatric symptomatology than those with other personality disorders. Two groups of personality-disordered patients (personality disorders including BPD; personality disorders other than BPD) completed measures of dissociation, personality fragmentation, and psychiatric disturbance. The BPD group had higher levels of a number of aspects of psychiatric symptomatology.

Premature menopause and psychological well-being.

This study aimed to investigate the psychological well-being of women who had experienced menopause before the age of 40 years. Participants were women known to the reproductive endocrinology service of a London teaching hospital. They were contacted and invited to participate in the questionnaire study by post.

Cognitive-behavioural approaches and weight management: an overview.

The prevalence of obesity has been on the increase and, on the whole, improvements in patient education have not led to the desired outcome of weight maintenance--let alone weight loss. For some time therapeutic techniques derived from behavioural psychology, such as self-monitoring, stimulus control and goal setting, have been incorporated as adjuncts to the treatment of weight problems--intended to help obese people make positive changes to their eating and activity habits. In more recent decades, behaviour modification approaches have also incorporated strategies from cognitive therapy, which have involved the identification and modification of 'dysfunctional' thinking patterns and consequent negative mood states; hence the term 'cognitive behaviour therapy' (CBT).