Professor Tamsin Ford 💙
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Clinical researcher on the optimisation of interventions and services for child mental health & the influence of schools. All views my own . Hughes Hall
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How to manage your mood - free poster to download here developed with adapted from
@BWCharity
with
@minafazeloxford
supported by
@CharlieWallerUK
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Does anyone else think that the middle of a pandemic that we are struggling to handle might not be the best time to rearrange public health infrastructure?
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#LGBTHistoryMoment
my parents were both born the year of the flapper vote. Despite a strong & happy 40 relationship, they could not marry so I had to register a parent’s death as a friend & her partner had to pay a large amount of tax on their home: some progress but a way to go
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I am a professor of child & adolescent psychiatry - & an epidemiologist- my mother(nearly 94), husband & both children are triple vaccinated- please encourage your family to similarly protect themselves
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This is what over 50 looks like!
This grant is for writers over 50. Look at the image.
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It turns out that not only is 13 miles a long way to run but I managed to do more or less do it
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Cannot recommend this book by
@lfoulkesy
highly enough - complex & nuanced ideas & evidence presented clearly - anyone with an interest in mental health & illness should read it - I particularly agree that language really matters
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Thank you
@ExeterMed
for an amazing 12 years: particularly my amazing team in whose reflected glory I bask -
@ProfStuartL
,
@ken_stein
&
@rahayesuk
my toes are still curling but thank you for your kind words
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We should stop vilifying the young - they are more likely to work in jobs that place them at risk of infection & it was inevitable that large groups arriving from different regions would increase infections
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are you looking for a post doc and interested in child mental health and access to services - if so please consider joining my team - more details below
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Deeply surprised & honoured to be included with all these amazing
#AcamedicalWomen
- thank you
@TNewloveDelgado
for nominating me: &
@GandLSchool
’s Mrs Wilson, Alison Hall,
@NavinaEvans
, Eric Taylor, Isobel Heyman & Robert Goodman for your wisdom, support & encouragement
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Frustrated & saddened in equal measure to hear a commentator on
@BBCRadio4
urging certainty from scientists about masks - scientific consensus responds to data as it emerges; conveying false certainty is as wrong as it is potentially harmful
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Bullying is probably our most tractable public mental health problem- it undermines mental health in both childhood & the longer term- we have programmes to reduce it with demonstrable effectiveness yet largely fail to implement them
This is interesting. Although some children & young people are finding social distancing hard, others are not. There are large individual differences and studies looking at the effects of social distancing & Covid-19 should account for them, and not assume it's all negative
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As data mounts suggesting significant impacts of the pandemic on children & young people’s’ mental health, we now need to plan our response - it is all our business to mitigate this as best we can
The Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2020 report found one-in-six children aged 5-16 years old, had a probable mental disorder in July 2020, compared to one-in-nine in 2017.
Read the full report here⬇️
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We’re looking for PARENTS and SCHOOL STAFF to join our online meeting on 22nd April to help us design a programme for identifying mental health difficulties in primary schools.
Please comment below/send us a message/email Emma at es703
@medschl
.cam.ac.uk for more information!
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Out tomorrow- am ridiculously excited
Mental Health and Attendance at School by
@KatieFinning
@Tamsin_J_Ford
@darren_a_moore
A comprehensive and practical guide to understanding the links between
#mentalhealth
and school attendance in children and young people.
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Finally, a paper that brings together descriptions of the national mental health survey programme in children and young people - an important resource for academics, third sector and public health - now to try and ensure timely access...
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We really need to change this
In a survey we asked GPs:
‘When I make a referral to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services, I am usually confident that this will result in treatment.’
41% strongly disagree
36% disagree
14% neither agree or disagree
8% agree
1% strongly agree
1% don’t know
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Enough of the ‘lost generation’. Instead, let’s reimagine school for our children
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As part of the development work for ATTEND, we examined the impact of childhood anxiety and depression on parents and vice versa - a family can possibly on be as happy as its unhappiest member, which mental health practitioners would do well to remember
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The HOPE study is looking for Young People, Parents/Carers and Professionals who have experience of SEND provision across England to join our Advisory groups. For more information about the study email hope21
@medschl
.cam.ac.uk or see
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Proud to be part of the team supporting this important work to fill the data gap we have that we have about the mental health of children & young people in England
🆕Today we have published the Mental Health of Children and Young People in England, 2020 report. This follows up on the previous 2017 survey and looks at the
#mentalhealth
of children and young people during the
#COVID19
pandemic, and changes since 2017.
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mental health support from
@Place2Be
reduced exclusion from school during the academic year that the child received treatment (as well as the child's mental health) - important work by Kati Toth
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This ⬇️
Allowing a school child with a hidden difficulty like Dyslexia, ADHD & Autism to struggle academically or socially when all that is needed for success are appropriate accommodations & explicit instruction is no different than failing to provide a ramp for a child in a wheelchair
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Too rainy to go anywhere today - besides am trapped - please send tea
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Children will be hit hardest by Lockdown and the anticipated recession - & this is occurring in the context of increased numbers of young people with poor mental health and worse adult outcomes for them - urgent action is needed
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An amazing person who kick started child & adolescent psychiatry research & psychiatric epidemiology - as the last SR through the Maudsley training programme, it was a real privilege to learn from him -my thoughts are with his family at this time
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The only paper I have found to date with pre-pandemic baseline data that studies the mental health of young children - all other sample start from the mid-teens
NEW PREPRINT: "Increase in childhood depression during the COVID-19 lockdown"
Having seen kids 18 months ago, we gathered new mental health data during lockdown to test for changes. There was a substantial increase in depression ratings.
@mrccbu
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So proud to be part of the team demonstrating the effectiveness & cost-effectiveness of mental health interventions for children with epilepsy
A study has shown children with
#epilepsy
, who had psychological treatment with their physical health care, struggled far less with their mental health. Dr Isobel Heyman says this highlights the importance of the
@CambChildrens
vision for integrated care 👉
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So good to see these important data published and proud to be part of the team that delivered it with
@NHSDigital
@ONS
@NatCen
and
@TNewloveDelgado
a& our teams
@ChARMpsych
&
@ChYMe_Exe
New report by
@NHSDigital
finds rate of mental disorders among children remained stable in 2021 after a previous rise
Read more>
@Tamsin_J_Ford
@ChARMpsych
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This cannot be emphasised enough ⬇️ & would likely improve physical health also
"The biggest challenge we need to address are the social determinants of poor mental health that drive demand for mental health services and put pressure on beds"
@DrAdrianJames
@rcpsych
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What a day for
@psychiatry_ucam
- an amazing postgraduate research student seminar topped off with a truly amazing Paykel lecture delivered by Stephen Stahl about psychopharmacology: as entertaining as it was informative with a book launch thrown in
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School-based mental health interventions reduce depression, anxiety, aggression
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we need to study the impact of the pandemic on mental health & of infection on the brain - but equally studies undertaken should use robust methods & researchers must work collaboratively to share measures, & avoid duplication & gaps in the evidence
A paper published today in
@TheLancetPsych
highlights an urgent need to tackle the harmful impacts of
#coronavirus
on mental health. We are working with
@acmedsci
and people with lived experience to create a robust research response. Read more:
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Young people, parents of young children & women’s mental health suffering than others but mental health of all deteriorated during Lockdown as compared to before the Pandemic
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Signing off to play with kittens & eat chocolates & mince pies
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We need to do so much better for children with poor mental health
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Are you a
#teacher
in the
#UK
with a spare 5 mins? Please complete this questionnaire aiming to measure teacher-child
#relationships
in UK classrooms . These relationships are important and we want to find a reliable/useful way to measure them in the UK!
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For early career researchers interested in applied research into child and adolescent mental health, particularly the interface with schools, I have a two year post-doctoral post
More information here
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This is such a good visual illustration of this difference - which is so important to understand
Equity and equality are not the same things.
Equity is about fairness.
Equality is about being equal.
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Great work on how to assess children in Africa for neurodevelopmental difficulties in a culturally appropriate as well as psychometrically robust way from
@psychiatry_ucam
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The power of longitudinal data that can address many important questions
30 years ago,
@BristolUni
researchers recruited over 14,000 pregnant women & began charting their lives & the development of their babies. We have been studying them ever since. As we mark our 30th take a look back through the years with
@BBCBreakfast
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The
@RCPsych
are calling on MPs to amend the Health and Social Care Bill, to ensure every local NHS area puts mental health on an equal footing with physical health. Today, I emailed my MP @ in support – and you can too. Join the campaign
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Feeling very grateful to the kind and generous comments from a pastoral lead about how the book that
@KatieFinning
,
@darren_a_moore
and I edited had been in local discussions across health and education services - absolutely what we set out to do
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We are delighted to welcome
@DuncanAstle
to the department & look forward to the stronger links with
@mrccbu
that his appointment will bring
📢 Neuroscientist and psychologist
@DuncanAstle
is the first Gnodde Goldman Sachs Professor of Neuroinformatics.
This important new post in
@psychiatry_ucam
has been made possible thanks to a generous endowment from the Gnodde family and Goldman Sachs Gives. 👏
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The satisfaction of getting my email inbox down to 31 flagged emails should not be underestimated but is perhaps a little sad
#FeelingOrganised
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Last Tuesday it poured with rain - many thanks to those who have given so generously - I am now running back across the channel so please donate if you can
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Services for children are NOT an optional extra
Gov has presented services for 0-2s as a “nice to have” (see quote from petitions cttee response) The Ofsted child protection stats show they are a matter of life and death for some children.The science shows they are crucial for lifelong health, wellbeing, learning and earning.
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Finally, someone who argues lucidly against throwing out the baby with the bathwater thank you
@Neuro_Skeptic
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Thank you
@DashaNicholls
@minafazeloxford
&
@ClaraGFaria1
for your fabulous presentations at the
#RCPsychIC
today & to all who attended- great questions & and excellent & thought provoking discussion
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Interesting discussion for anyone interested in mental health in children and young people - do share widely
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#NHSstory
@NHSMillion
Monoamniotic twin pregnancy - not much data (then) but odds 50:50 survival (let alone disability’s)- without a planned C section almost certainly one or both would have died - now 19 & in their first year of university
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Bullying is probably our most tractable public mental health problem with evidence-based interventions that we fail to implement. It costs & casts a shadow into the adult life of both bullies & victims; children who relate by bullying become adults that bully...
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A fabulous collation of interesting child mental health related blogs for child mental health week - thank
@Mental_Elf
This week is
#ChildrensMentalHealthWeek
!
Fortunately, the elves have been hard at work, preparing summaries of evidence-based youth mental health research in easy to read blogs.
All you have to do is read them!
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Guidance for parents and carers on supporting children and young people’s mental health and wellbeing during the coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak -
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Recruiting school staff for a study of experiences teaching pupils with ADHD. The 10-minute anonymous online survey can be accessed here: any questions, please contact Emelia Pasternak-Albert at eisp2
@cam
.ac.uk
@ChARMpsych
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Come work with us - 2 research assistant posts
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Excellent PhD opportunity for someone interested in the health of children with special educational needs with Ruth Gilbert and her team at UCL .
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Great work led by
@FassiLuisa
from the
@OrbenAmy
team - systematic review and meta-analysis of the impact of social media on adolescent mental health
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Glad to see this excellent paper by
@emma_soneson
out examining what stakeholders prioritise for school-based identification of mental health difficulties
@ChARMpsych
@psychiatry_ucam
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still publishing from
@NIHRresearch
funded STARS trial - very much a labour of love
Is neighbourhood deprivation in primary school-aged children associated with their mental health and does this association change over 30 months? ()
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Bullying is arguably our most tractable public mental health problem - at whatever age it casts a long shadow & needs prompt effective responses
Workplace bullying is a
#mentalhealth
issue.
Distressing, destructive - far from raising standards, it impairs performance & causes sickness absence.
No organisation claiming to take mental health seriously can ignore it.
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We should be really proud of our rigorous national mental health surveys - they require a huge amount of work from many people but particular thanks to
@McManusSally
& Katharine Sadler from
@NatCen
&
@TimVizard
@ONS
&
@NHSDigital
- the reports below are well worth checking out
Pre-COVID, young people’s mental health was deteriorating, particularly among teenage girls, says
@Tamsin_J_Ford
at
#IoMHconf2020
See:
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Feeling distinctly middle aged - justified that my favourite band are playing in London (which they rarely do) but somewhat deflated to see that doors open
@10pm
so unlikely to be on before midnight & just don’t have the stamina any more
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Sadly had to say good bye to our beloved cat today - thank you Village Vet Whittlesford for treating us & him with so much dignity- a much better experience was than the expensive private hospital my mother chose to put her trust in - typically British?
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Short answer no - particularly in relation to the burden of morbidity related to poor mental health
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Looking forward to speaking
@RoySocMed
about transforming children's mental health in schools tomorrow - I will be talking about teacher's experiences in the trial STARS & there 10 days left to join the second trial see
@IY_STARS
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Clear & useful advice: How to *actually* ask for help when you’re struggling with your mental health: a guide – The Sundial Journal
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Congratulations Dr
@KatieFinning
for a superb defence of your thesis - proud supervisor moment
@darren_a_moore
& Obi Ukoumunne
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@PookyH
I was adopted as a baby - I know very little about my birth family but for me that has never mattered - I have always been surprised when people apologise if their question prompts me to say I was adopted as for it that is just how it is - nothing bad & nothing to be ashamed of
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Thank you
@inthehut
for our
@lockjamofficial
ChARM Christmas Party & thank you to all my fabulous friends & colleagues for joining
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Proud to see this work in print - thanks to our strong partnership with
@Place2Be
& to
@gjmelendez
&
@KatieFinning
for their hard work
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Bullying is probably our most tractable mental health risk factor - & with lots of evidence-based programs we should be thoroughly ashamed of this statistic
"In England, according to the Department of Education, in 2017-2018, around 17% of young people had been bullied in a way that made them frightened or upset during the past 12 months"
From our NEW FREE Topic Guide on
#Bullying
. Pls share
#AntiBullyingWeek
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I am really proud of this work & so grateful to the amazing team of people who contributed to it over the better part of a decade
Just published -
@IY_STARS
final report on Training teachers in classroom management to improve mental health in primary school children. Available now
@OfficialNIHR
Journals Library;
@Tamsin_J_Ford
@ExeterMed
@EducEndowFoundn
@TheNFER
#primaryeducation
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Interesting job going for someone interested in data science - better still if they are interested in the mental health of children and young people
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And she is not the only person raising these concerns- there is no evidence base to support these approaches whereas there are for others - see here
I'm a clinical psychologist. This means that I use psychological theory and practice to help people with their mental health. I have two doctorates, one in developmental psychology and one in applied clinical psychology. In the therapy room, I hear stories. People tell me things
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@oli_m_sims
Just think what a miserable existence they must have to need to put others down - vile & I am so sorry that you had to endure their petty vindictiveness
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For our
@NIHRresearch
programme development grant we are interested to hear from child mental health practitioners with training in mindfulness-based interventions & mindfulness teachers with experience of child mental health; please complete the attached questionnaire & RT
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Important implications for educators and mental health practitioners - we need to detect and effectively support children with depression in terms of both mental health and education
Out today in
@TheBJPsych
! Research by
@AliceWickersham
&
@Tamsin_J_Ford
shows teenagers diagnosed with
#depression
at school show a substantial decline in attainment in Year 11.
Read more ▶️ .
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Not that I love being in a train @ 6:45am but so good to be in person for the Child Psychiatry Research Society today
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“the UN pronounced child poverty in the UK “not just a disgrace, but a social calamity and an economic disaster” - we can & must do better
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Paper rejected from one journal just accepted with no revision required by another
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For all those interested in transition or ADHD, the
#CATCh
-uS team are doing a webinar to discuss transitional services for young adults with ADHD - please join and RT
@ADHDFoundation
@AADDUK
@rcpsych
@rcgp
@PHE_Children
more info here
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Spoiler - those from BAME backgrounds were less likely to have routine outcome measures recorded - this is something practitioners with sufficient administrative support could fix
Sociodemographic factors associated with routine outcome monitoring: a historical cohort study of 28,382 young people accessing child and adolescent mental health services (2020)
By Anna C. Morris
@moghraby
@argStringaris
@Tamsin_J_Ford
et al
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This is so needed: attachment is complex & the misapplication of poorly understood terms leads to much confusion & poor implementation/ interventions
A group of us (
@MarijeVerhage
@RDuschinsky
Anne Tharner & Samantha Reisz) has put together a brief guide to the proper usage of attachment terms to help clear up some of the misunderstanding out there. Now up on the
@SeasEmotion
website!
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Are you aged 12 to 25 who has experienced internal exclusion or isolation in school or a parent of such a young person please share your experiences in our research - you can find out more here
@ChARMpsych
@psychiatry_ucam
@CamNeuro
@ARC_EoE
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Hugely difficult to judge but equally rewarding to attend- thank you to all the finalists & many more working with & for
@Place2Be
to improve children’s mental health- you are all fabulous
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Thanks to
@sjblakemore
@DuncanAstle
@RosMcLellan
Colleen McLoughlin Ayla Humphries,
@AnnaVignoles
& Claire Hughes for working so hard with me to produce this evidence for education select committee- published
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Almost certainly our most tractable public mental risk factor
@Asifmbachlani
@DrLadeSmith
@raj_psyc
@wmakala
@GordonMuvuti
@adave_NHS
@NatashaSloman
@DrShahidLatif
@subodhdave1
@Derektracy1
@deliriumkrish
@DrAMistryPsych
@drmfirdosi
@shwetamittal80
@HassanmahmoodDr
@MrUmarShariff
@DrJoanneFarrow
#BullyingAwarenessWeek
#NoPlaceForBullying
The proportion of my patients who have been severely bullied as children & who then develop severe psychosis is high.Bullying is an awful Adverse Childhood Experience
#ACE
that we all have a role to stamp out
@Tamsin_J_Ford
@DrJonGoldin
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Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrists – we need your help! Our CAPSS run surveillance study
@FarAwayStudy
is looking for cases where young people have been admitted far from home, out of NHS region or to adult wards. Please contact CAPSS
@rcpsych
.ac.uk to sign up
@RcpsychCAP
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