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Featured article: Euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide - perspectives from Dutch psychiatrists

This interesting article examines the experiences of Dutch psychiatrists with euthanasia and physician-assisted suicide (EAS) requests by psychiatric patients.

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Content type: Research article
| 18 September 2019

Qualitative evaluation of a preventive intervention for the offspring of parents with a history of depression

Authors: Nathalie Claus, Lisa Marzano, Johanna Loechner, Kornelija Starman, Alessandra Voggt, Fabian Loy, Inga Wermuth, Stephanie Haemmerle, Lina Engelmann, Mirjam Bley, Gerd Schulte-Koerne and Belinda Platt
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| 18 September 2019

Prevalence, symptomatology, risk factors and healthcare services utilization regarding paternal depression in Germany: study protocol of a controlled cross-sectional epidemiological study

Authors: Julia Albicker, Lars P. Hölzel, Jürgen Bengel, Katharina Domschke, Levente Kriston, Miriam A. Schiele and Fabian Frank
Content type: Research article
| 18 September 2019

A test of the goodness of fit of the generic metacognitive model of psychopathology symptoms

Authors: Henrik Nordahl, Ingunn Harsvik Ødegaard, Odin Hjemdal and Adrian Wells
Content type: Research article
| 18 September 2019

Intergenerational patterns of mental health problems: the role of childhood peer status position

Authors: Evelina Landstedt and Ylva B. Almquist
Content type: Study protocol
| 18 September 2019

A randomized controlled trial to examine the impacts of disclosing personalized depression risk information on the outcomes of individuals who are at high risk of developing major depression: a research protocol

Authors: JianLi Wang, Glenda MacQueen, Scott Patten, Douglas Manuel, Bonnie Lashewicz and Norbert Schmitz

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| 2 July 2014

Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Authors: Martin A Katzman, Pierre Bleau, Pierre Blier, Pratap Chokka, Kevin Kjernisted and Michael Van Ameringen
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| 30 December 2010

Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review

Authors: Amelia Gulliver, Kathleen M Griffiths and Helen Christensen
Content type: Research article
| 9 December 2016

Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition

Authors: Helen Brooks, Kelly Rushton, Sandra Walker, Karina Lovell and Anne Rogers
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| 18 August 2008

A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people

Authors: Michael King, Joanna Semlyen, Sharon See Tai, Helen Killaspy, David Osborn, Dmitri Popelyuk and Irwin Nazareth
Content type: Research article
| 28 May 2016

Crime and victimisation in people with intellectual disability: a case linkage study

Authors: Billy C. Fogden, Stuart D. M. Thomas, Michael Daffern and James R. P. Ogloff

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BMC Psychiatry is an open access, peer-reviewed journal that considers articles on all aspects of the prevention, diagnosis and management of psychiatric disorders, as well as related molecular genetics, pathophysiology, and epidemiology.

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Cathy Barr, The Toronto Western Hospital
Ruth Benca, University of Wisconsin-Madison
Linda Davies, University of Manchester
Secondo Fassino, Turin University
Seena Fazel, University of Oxford
Morten Hesse, University of Aarhus
Sharon Lawn, Flinders University
Ute Lewitzka, Technische Universität Dresden
Joanne Ryan, Monash University
Florian Seemüller, Ludwig-Maximilians-University Munich
Wei Wang, Zhejiang University School of Medicine

Joanne Ryan, Section Editor

Dr. Joanne Ryan is a genetic epidemiologist who leads the Dementia Research Program in the School of Public Health & Preventive Medicine, Monash University. She joined the editorial board of BMC Psychiatry as an Associate Editor in 2014 and became a Section Editor in 2016

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Qualitative evaluation of a preventive intervention for the offspring of parents with a history of depression

Prevalence, symptomatology, risk factors and healthcare services utilization regarding paternal depression in Germany: study protocol of a controlled cross-sectional epidemiological study

A test of the goodness of fit of the generic metacognitive model of psychopathology symptoms

Intergenerational patterns of mental health problems: the role of childhood peer status position

A randomized controlled trial to examine the impacts of disclosing personalized depression risk information on the outcomes of individuals who are at high risk of developing major depression: a research protocol

Canadian clinical practice guidelines for the management of anxiety, posttraumatic stress and obsessive-compulsive disorders

Perceived barriers and facilitators to mental health help-seeking in young people: a systematic review

Ontological security and connectivity provided by pets: a study in the self-management of the everyday lives of people diagnosed with a long-term mental health condition

A systematic review of mental disorder, suicide, and deliberate self harm in lesbian, gay and bisexual people

Crime and victimisation in people with intellectual disability: a case linkage study

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