Summary The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic is having a profound effect
on all aspects of society, including mental health and physical health. We explore the …

Qualitative research has much to offer counsellors and psychotherapists, in terms of
generating new understandings of the complexities of the therapeutic process, and in …

Background Much has been written about public involvement (PI) in health and social care
research, but underpinning values are rarely made explicit despite the potential for these to …

Abstract Patients collectively made Long Covid–and cognate term 'Long-haul Covid'–in the
first months of the pandemic. Patients, many with initially 'mild'illness, used various kinds of …

Objectives To explore the experiences of service users, carers and staff seeking or providing
secondary mental health services during the COVID-19 pandemic. Design Qualitative …

This article explores the issue of 'othering'service users and the role that involving them,
particularly in social policy and social work research may play in reducing this. It takes, as its …

Patient and public involvement in health research is increasingly well established
internationally, but the impacts of involvement on the research process are hard to evaluate …

In recent years, investment in participatory research methods within mental health services
research has grown. Participatory efforts are often limited in scope, however, and attention to …

This article identifies and examines a tension in mental health researchers' growing
enthusiasm for the use of computational tools powered by advances in artificial intelligence …

This paper considers possible epistemologies for user-led and survivor research by drawing
on four discourses: the mainstream English tradition, Canadian Mad Studies, critical theory …