It’s #TherapyDogAppreciationDay 🐕💙

It's well proven that animals can reduce the stress of being in a hospital, for patients and staff alike, so at GOSH we're delighted to regularly welcome a wonderful team of canine volunteers. How many of them have you met?!🐕

Please see link here for exciting Research Clinical Psychologist job at the IoPPN, within the Child & Adolescent Psychiatry department under the direction of Dr Daniel Michelson. Closing date 25th April 2024 kcl.ac.uk/jobs/087506-re…

1. Congratulations to Jiedi Lei, a graduate of our 2020-23 cohort and winner of our Jack Rachman prize for her DClinPsy project publication in the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry.

The publication 'Understanding the relationship between social camouflaging in autism

UCL Humma Andleeb 🍉 Annie Gaule Alex Lloyd The ReSET Project Kate Merritt Anna Roach poses a question: we have lots of great evidence-based mental health treatments for children and young people so why do mental health difficulties continue to increase? What role do low intensity interventions have in closing the evidence-practice gap?

Here UCL Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit we worked closely with the investigators to make this study a success, and we're now very pleased to see it published in The Lancet :-)

Read below for the results of this important study in children and young people's mental health.

Gr8 paper thelancet.com/journals/lance… showing effectiveness of intervention for mental health problems in children with epilepsy. Further evidence screening & intervention should b part of standard care@EpilepsyInst Epilepsy Scotland Epilepsy Action Young Epilepsy Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children.

Up to 60% of children and young people with epilepsy have associated mental health difficulties.

A recent study evaluated the clinical effectiveness of integrated mental health treatment for children and young people with epilepsy.

Read this and more: hubs.li/Q02r1RKj0

A new mental health treatment has been developed for children with #Epilepsy that enables multiple conditions to be treated at once, instead of having different treatments for different #MentalHealth difficulties.

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Thank you so much to UCL Comprehensive Clinical Trials Unit for their collaboration and support throughout the trial!

A new modular approach to treating #mentalhealth in children with #epilepsy has been found to be more effective than standard treatment. It was developed by scientists UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health, inc. Dr Sophie Bennett & Profs Roz Shafran, Isobel Heyman & Helen Cross
ucl.ac.uk/news/2024/mar/…

Thrilled to write this Comment for The Lancet with Jo Dudeney on the amazing UK MICE trial of psychological care for youth with #epilepsy highlighting the value of integrated care for #mentalhealth thelancet.com/journals/lance…
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Results from the MICE Study ICH Psych Med Research have been published! Shows effectiveness for a mental health intervention for children with epilepsy, compared to standard care. Thank you to our North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT) Community Medical Paediatrics teams for being involved!⭐️

thelancet.com/journals/lance…

Great to see evidence of effectiveness for a mental health intervention for children with epilepsy.

New treatment could transform the mental health of #children with #epilepsy UCL News The Lancet medicalxpress.com/news/2024-03-t…

Breakthrough Treatment Enhances Mental Health in Children with Epilepsy wiobs.com/breakthrough-t… #Epilepsy #MentalHealth #PsychologicalTreatment #Children #MICE #IntegratedCare #RemoteTherapy #HolisticApproach #ResearchStudy

And a pleasure to have you as part of the team Elana!

We agree about Isobel Richard Brown! Thank you for all of your support of MICE and for taking part as a PIC site!

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