If you would like to attend the March CPD session, please email [email protected] or [email protected]

New paper! On suicide risk assessment. Examines common misconceptions - tools have to classify people into categories (high/low risk); performance should be based on classification measures (e.g. PPV, sens); AUCs too low. In 3 pages. 🧵later. Open access: mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/27/1/e…

*Autism Assessors* There is still time to sign up to Dr Grace Trundle's Delphi study examining how girls and women are currently being assessed for autism. Please do consider taking part if eligible or sharing with colleagues who might be interested.

Out today in MDEdge Fed Pract: "A unified definition of #moralinjury must be integrated to frame clinician distress alongside #burnout, recentering ethical decision making, rather than profit, at the heart of health care." mdedge.com/fedprac/articl… Wendy Dean Simon Talbot

Are we asking the right questions to identify different sources early life adversity experienced by males in prison? A systematic review and meta analysis with +44,000 participants  indicates that exposure to adversity in childhood is pervasive in the lives of males in prison.

Free Special Interest Group meeting exploring moral injury in healthcare. At this meeting a recent study evidencing that moral injury is present and impactful in inpatient forensic populations is presented by the author, Dr Scott Steen. Scan the QR code to attend.

Improving support for people who experience PTSD from their own actions. Please take part in a study that aims to improve clinical practice for people who develop PTSD from their own actions (AKA: 'auto-induced' PTSD) Scan the QR code/ follow the link: lnkd.in/eAXUmMbQ

The Annual Recognition Awards in Trauma Research and Practice In collaboration with the CDT Section of the BPS, The Compassionate Mind Foundation & The RADiANT Group, we are launching a series of awards to promote practice/research developments in psychological trauma.

We are proud to partner with Centre for Developmental and Complex Trauma with their annual recognition awards to highlight and promote clinical and research practice that improve outcomes for service users and staff groups affected by trauma. More information and how to apply: stah.org/cdct/awards

I'm hosting 5th International Trauma Informed Care Online Live Conference. Make sure to attend it on November 26. linkedin.com/events/5thinte…

Delighted to get this umbrella review of systematic reviews over the line and published in Springer Nature Community Mental Health Journal. The reviews are inclusive of schools, out of home care, health and social care settings, comunity and residential mental health and hospital

Medicalizing and pathologizing occupational distress distracts from the organizational solutions essential for workforce relief. Moral Injury of Healthcare AFT

We need proactive and ethically centred solutions to reducing and preventing occupational distress in healthcare. With the BPS Crisis Trauma & Disaster Section , and Moral Injury of Healthcare we are launching our 4th online International conference exploring moral injury and occupational distress.

Really important paper just released, relating to the global burden of suicide for autistic people, with related findings reported for those with co-occurring learning disability. Link here: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

* Participants needed for brief online survey exploring distress in public sector workers * 💻🔎 To participate, please scan the QR code below or head to: lnkd.in/eg5M65Kt For further information, please get in touch at [email protected] #research #staffwellbeing #survey

A preprint of my systemaric review of trauma informed care in substance use settings Mahon, D. A Systematic Review of Trauma Informed Care in Substance Use Settings. Preprints 2024, 2024091775. doi.org/10.20944/prepr…