Clinical researcher on the optimisation of interventions and services for child mental health & the influence of schools. All views my own . Hughes Hall
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?
#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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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⬇️
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!
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...
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
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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
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
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 👉
"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
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
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:
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
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!
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
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
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
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
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
📢 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. 👏
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
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.
#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
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...
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!
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
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? ()
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.
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
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
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?
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
Great blog by
@jemwhite
from
@Place2Be
about the mental health gains of children attending mental health support in schools, which seem to be maintained two years later in comparison with carefully matched children in the community
@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
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
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
@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
@rcpsych
Thank you for your apology- I also regret any upset caused but also appreciate the efforts to communicate by both
@rcpsych
& those who responded to the original tweet - misunderstandings happen but good to try & explain & understand
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
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
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
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!
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
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
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