In this #OpenAccess Practitioner Review, Dr Katrina Witt, D.Phil et al. significantly update and build on previous reviews with the aim of identifying issues in research relevant to #ClinicalPractice with regard to treatments for young people who self-harm. bit.ly/3Mz2l2E

As rates of youth self-harm and suicide continue to escalate, addressing gaps in self-harm aftercare is vital. Orygen Senior Research Fellow Dr Katrina Witt, D.Phil has led a new paper in Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry that outlines eight practical recommendations for clinicians: bit.ly/3MIC9mk

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So apparently this recent paper showing that open science practices can help increase replicability was just retracted by Nature Human Behavior. Reason appears to be that authors could not find their preregistration? nature.com/articles/s4156…

Interesting paper on the mental health of people doing qualitative research: Historically, those doing qualitative work—either by itself or in mixed method research—have not necessarily felt readily understood or as respected by funders, mainstream journals, or even colleagues.

I am seeing more and more people who want to come off their antidepressant, so I am glad to have finally ordered and received the Maudsley Deprescribing Guidelines by Mark Horowitz @markhoro.bsky.social and David Taylor. It is full of useful advice on all aspects of withdrawal based on available evidence

In this #OpenAccess Practitioner Review, Dr Katrina Witt, D.Phil et al. significantly update and build on previous reviews with the aim of identifying issues in research relevant to #ClinicalPractice with regard to treatments for young people who self-harm. bit.ly/3Mz2l2E

Very proud of our #PhD student Gowri Rajaram 🌱 on her completion seminar! It feels like just yesterday she started with me & Jo Orygen UniMelb MDHS University of Melbourne ! Congratulations Gowri!

How to write a grant? 1. Write it for the reviewer, not you, the applicant. 2. Communicate in stories. 3. Make your story cohesive—leave no puzzling gaps. 4. Make your story resonate to keep the reviewer reading. 5. Accept chance and noise in peer-review. pnas.org/doi/epub/10.10…

NSW’s public mental health system is in crisis—psychiatrists are resigning, and hospitals are overwhelmed. This isn't just about pay. It’s about the system’s failure to innovate and use smart tech for reform. Read more in our piece below. croakey.org/mental-healthc…

Here’s a reason why the incoming NIH Director, health economist Jay Bhattacharya, should know cutting indirect costs at NIH is self-defeating and stupid. Every $1 invested by NIH returns $2.5. So $4B “savings” is actually $10B we lost. nih.gov/about-nih/what…

The freeze on federal research grants & cuts to indirect costs on NIH funds—even for ongoing grants—should alarm anyone invested in #EvidenceBasedMedicine & #Policy worldwide. These moves threaten innovation & scientific progress. #ResearchFunding #SciencePolicy

Honored to attend Radical Ideas Fora for Healthcare Transformation at UniMelb MDHS! Huge thanks to Harriet Hiscock & CateKelly for providing a powerful space for us thought leaders to creatively & boldly push boundaries to rethink #Australia's #healthcare system!