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The PSSRU is one of the leading social care research groups, not just in the UK but internationally.

Latest Journal Articles

Effectiveness of systemic family therapy versus treatment as usual for young people after self-harm: a pragmatic, phase 3, multicentre, randomised controlled trial (2018)
The Lancet Psychiatry
Prof David J Cottrell, Alexandra Wright-Hughes, Michelle Collinson, Paula Boston, Prof Ivan Eisler, Sarah Fortune, Elizabeth H Graham, Prof Jonathon Green, Prof Allan O House, Prof Michael Kerfoot; David Owens; Eirini-Christina Saloniki; Mima Simic; Fiona Lambert; Justine Rothwell; Sandy Tubeuf; Prof Amanda Farrin
Integrating ASCOT in care planning (2018)
Australian Journal of Dementia Care
Towers A, Nelson K, Smith N, Razik K
Social care managers and care workers’ understandings of personalisation in older people’s services (2018)
Working with Older People
Stevens M, Moriarty J, Harris J, Manthorpe J, S Hussein, Cornes M