Congrats to our DPhil student Tanya Manchanda who's been awarded the Donald J Cohen Fellowship by IACAPAP aimed at supporting emerging leaders.

She'll be speaking at their 2024 conference later this month on her OxWell Study findings on adolescent friendships & mental health

'A shift in medical thinking is needed to appreciate the damage the immune system can do to the brain.'

Belinda Lennox's work on autoimmune psychosis in this article in The Economist on some of the bodily triggers for mental health conditions.

economist.com/science-and-te… Medical Sciences

Had to share this beautiful illustration by Ind that overviews our new paper on the impact of of a #mentalhealth training for #teachers !

Read (free) here ➡️ jmir.org/2024/1/e46764/

New paper w interesting results from short online gamified training on mental health for teachers.

Led to better identification of problems but no change in referrals to other services - highlighting that better understanding might enable more in-house supports & containment

A fantastic #PsychAwayDay from Oxford Psychiatry! See thread below for what Oxford Child & Adolescent Psychiatry got up to #DreamTeam #Teamwork #EDI

Hugely well done to our very own Galit.Geulayov for winning this prize for her massively important work on #selfharm in children! OxWell Study

Great talk from Gaby on her OxWell Study findings on 😴💤🛌

I loved hosting a Moods of the Ashmolean Museum treasure hunt as part of our #PsychAwayDay - so many treasures to explore and many #moods amongst them! Here is our winner from the ATTUNE Research Project (Well done!) and a few faces of note (guess the mood?) More teams welcome next time!

40% of secondary students in our OxWell Study of 30,000 kids are worried about the climate, #eco #Anxiety cannot be ignored. This article is therefore incredibly disheartening

In case you missed it yesterday: NIHR ARC Oxford and Thames Valley supported research shows parent-led online CBT can be as effective as traditional therapy for children's anxiety.

More details ➡️ ow.ly/WTpV50QyFpg #MentalHealthCare #ResearchImpact

Great update from our amazing OxWell Study 👇

Year in Review

In this interesting podcast, Simona Skripkauskaite and Holly Bear comment on the OxWell Study findings on adolescents’ self-reported online behaviours and provide insight into the specific variables investigated in the study.

A must listen. bit.ly/3QYLIPx

👀 a great paper is out today! This graph is a favourite as it shows how clear the relationship is between adversity and access to care - and encourages us to think about how to better design services to meet need. Well done Emma Soneson PhDoutput Simon White #FBPE & Professor Tamsin Ford 💙

Difficult to read- a predictable outcome of the legally sanctioned social suffering happening in our midst! #Refugees #asylum #asylum seeker #mentalhealth thanks amelia gentleman The Guardian and team for maintaining #humanity in reporting Asylum Welcome 🧡 theguardian.com/uk-news/2023/d…

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World leaders you have a moral responsibility towards stopping this genocide.
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President Biden

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Final program for our Migration & Mental Health conference is out. Join us on November 15th in Copenhagen Ana Antic Karen-Inge Karstoft Mina Fazel Danish Refugee Council SImon Ruben Husby Ditte Shapiro School of Global Health - University of Copenhagen uniavisen.dk/event/migratio…

A very sad day, Bill Yule a true legend in the field of child refugee mental health- a kind & thoughtful humanitarian, who studied important questions and supported so many of us in our work.

For anyone interested in adolescent health and available to start working with us on some interesting questions that we would like to interview young people about, please join us and apply for this mat-leave post-doc post