The Mental Elf has received a 3-year discretionary award from the Wellcome, to continue running the website as we have been doing for the last few years.

Thank you to Niall Boyce Prof Miranda Wolpert for this amazing show of support! ❤️

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Our findings suggest that school environments could reduce depressive symptoms by:

📍Prioritising learning, development & growth over achievement

📍Seeing mistakes as opportunities for growth & development

📍 comparing with past performance rather than to other students

Loneliness Linked to Personality Disorders

A recent systematic review synthesizes evidence from 70 studies to examine loneliness and perceived social support (PSS) in individuals with personality disorders, offering new insights into their social challenges.

The analysis

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✔️1 in 4 autistic patients received what they believed was a psychiatric misdiagnosis prior to being diagnosed.
✔️The most common misdiagnosis was personality disorders.
✔️Previous misdiagnosis was more common in women.

= #AutismNotPD

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New open access article: Severe mental illness and the perimenopause | BJPsych Bulletin | Cambridge Core - bit.ly/4ctsV9f

This study uncovers five distinct suicide profiles, highlighting the 'invisible risk profile' related to physical health challenges. Findings emphasizes the need for tailored suicide prevention strategies beyond the one-size-fits-all approach. ja.ma/3Pu5tPl

Are you a researcher working in field of suicide and self-harm?

Come join us in Glasgow in June.

Only event of its kind internationally: friendly & supportive highlighting the latest & best research

Closing date for abstracts: 12th April

Full details: suicideresearch.info/8th-suicide-se…

Battle Scars recommends using a Safe Self-harm Kit to reduce rather than encourage self-harming behaviour This kit can be a bag/box containing items a person uses to self-harm & items to make the act of self-harming as safe as possible. battle-scars-self-harm.org.uk
#SafeSelfHarmKit

Division of Psychiatry are showcasing some of our research, events and division-wide initiatives that focus on women’s health for #UCLWomensHealthWeek

Find out more on our webpage:
ucl.ac.uk/psychiatry/ucl…

Our 2nd paper describes the stresses that middle-aged men face before they take their lives and their contact with services that could be preventative. Both long-standing and recent risks contribute to suicide risk. 1st author Jane Graney BMJPublicHealth bmjpublichealth.bmj.com/content/2/1/e0…

Interested in doing a PhD in mental health and sexual health?

The NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) are offering fully funded 3-year PhD studentships with one on: 'Inequalities in HIV and Severe Mental Illness' (CO24-033) Apply now! maudsleybrc.nihr.ac.uk/academic-caree…

Deadline 01/04/2024

More welcome attention on children's health today - this report focusing on v worrying health trends & inequalities of under fives. Crying out for Govt focus and investment along with a wholesale move to prevention & family based support such as Sure Start bbc.com/news/health-68…

Suicide rate in mental health inpatients fell substantially over 2009-20 but downward trend appears to have stalled.

Need to re-emphasise safe care of admitted patients.

Our new paper NCISH. 1st author Isabelle Hunt.

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Have you got your ticket yet for our Small Steps, Big Changes webinar?

A panel of experts will focus on how the mental health needs of children and young people can be met by making small changes to services.

Get your free ticket now!
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'waiting list was associated with the highest mortality in AN. This finding ... should encourage ED services offering treatment for AN to avoid passive waiting list, & to offer psychoeducational elements & active monitoring to those awaiting admission...'

NEW PUBLICATION ALERT
Review of psych assessment after #selfharm published in BJPsych Journals is the largest global review incl >140,000 persons & >2.2m episodes across 26 countries Dr Katie McGill Bernard Leckning Benjamin Davies Dr Jo Robinson AM (she/her) Orygen University of Melbourne

dx.doi.org/10.1192/bjo.20…

What's a better time for reading a new #eatingdisorder paper than ... now? Here's hot off the (virtual) press: A systematic review on non-suicidal self-injury in individuals with an eating disorders #OpenAccess onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/ea… See for key findings below! 👇

Our experimental study describes the influence of peer non-suicidal self-harm #NSSH on young adults’ urges to #selfharm Acta Neuropsychiatrica with important public health implications bit.ly/4axHirS

“Fix the system … the people who are in it are not the ones that are broken” A qualitative study exploring UK academic researchers’ views on support at work. Great paper by Helen Nicholls Prof Jo Billings Sonia Johnson #AcademicTwitter #HigherEd cell.com/heliyon/fullte…

I'm teaching a group of mental health masters students from UCL this morning. Hello! UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs 👋🏽

Talking about science blogging & social media.

I'm often asked what makes a good science blog, so here are examples from the last few years 👇🏽

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