Foremen, David and Khan, Nagina, eds. (2025) BJPsych BulletinIntelligent Kindness in Mental Health Care Themed Issue. BJPsych Bulletin, . ISSN 2056-4694. (In press) (KAR id:111391)
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Intelligent Kindness in Mental Health Care Themed Issue
Despite growing awareness of the importance of compassion in mental health care, systemic pressures, workforce constraints, digitalisation, and managerialist models have led to the erosion of relational practices. The concept of intelligent kindness, as proposed by Ballatt and Campling, offers a timely and urgent call to reorient services around humane, relational and values-driven approaches. This issue will explore how intelligent kindness can be conceptualised, implemented, and evaluated within contemporary psychiatric and mental health services. We welcome examples of systemic change that foreground kindness as both ethical imperative and evidence-based practice.
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| Additional information: | BJPsych Bulletin is aiming to publish a themed issue on intelligent kindness in mental health care. Accepted papers will be published online ahead of print as and when they are ready, then subsequently gathered into a special issue. Closing date for submissions: 31 October 2025. Guest editors: Dr David Foreman, King’s College London, Dr Nagina Khan, University of Kent. Rationale for the themed issue and what we are looking for: Despite growing awareness of the importance of compassion in mental health care, systemic pressures, workforce constraints, digitalisation, and managerialist models have led to the erosion of relational practices. The concept of intelligent kindness, as proposed by Ballatt and Campling, offers a timely and urgent call to reorient services around humane, relational and values-driven approaches. This issue will explore how intelligent kindness can be conceptualised, implemented, and evaluated within contemporary psychiatric and mental health services. We welcome examples of systemic change that foreground kindness as both ethical imperative and evidence-based practice. We are interested in reflective and opinion pieces, original research and clinical practice papers, service evaluations, and lived experience contributions. Articles will be subject to peer review. Key themes: Theoretical foundations of intelligent kindness, Historical and philosophical roots, Ethical arguments for relational care, Critiques of bureaucratisation and industrialised psychiatry, Practising kindness: clinical and organisational case studies, Trauma-informed care, Co-production and peer-supported models, Examples of services embedding kindness into structures and practice, Measuring and evaluating kindness, Methodological challenges in researching compassion, Metrics for relational safety and staff/patient experience, Mixed-methods and qualitative approaches, Barriers to kindness, Burnout, fear, blame cultures, and defensive practice, Risk management vs relational care, The effects of digital transformation and AI in care delivery, Voices from practice and lived experience, Practitioner reflections on reclaiming kindness, Lived experience narratives on relational healing, Creative and narrative forms of contribution, Policy and system reform, Leadership for compassionate systems, Workforce education and values-based, recruitment, International comparisons and policy perspectives. |
| Subjects: | R Medicine |
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Schools > School of Social Sciences Schools > School of Social Sciences > Centre for Health Services Studies |
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| Depositing User: | Nagina Khan |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Sep 2025 15:37 UTC |
| Last Modified: | 30 Sep 2025 13:16 UTC |
| Resource URI: | https://kar.kent.ac.uk/id/eprint/111391 (The current URI for this page, for reference purposes) |
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