As he prepares for his #IoPPNfestival keynote talk, Prof Edgar Jones talks about the roots of research excellence at the Maudsley-IoPPN
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Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience NHS Maudsley Maudsley Charity

#History #Maudsley #Origins

New research suggests that mental health practitioners need to show curiosity when working cross-culturally and increase their awareness of the challenges minoritised individuals may face when engaging with services nationalelfservice.net/?p=191836

KCL Masters student Xinxin Qiu discusses a recent study by Catherine Winsper et al, published in BMJ Mental Health, about improving mental healthcare access and experiences for ethnically minoritised people in the UK nationalelfservice.net/?p=191836

Mental healthcare for ethnic minority groups: a call for substantial change nationalelfservice.net/?p=191836

Community outreach services can rebuild trust with black and ethnic minoritised communities and raise awareness to improve access to treatment nationalelfservice.net/?p=191989

Great students on a great course Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience - I love teaching on it.

A place of safety? Podcast See my blog on antipsychotics for The Mental Elf but which also discusses the importance of good services nationalelfservice.net/treatment/anti…

Every year, for the last 5 years, we've been publishing blogs written by masters students on the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience Mental Health Studies MSc.

This week we'll be publishing 5 more award-winning blogs! Congratulations to the students 🥳

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Black and South Asian Women's experiences of perinatal mental health care: nationalelfservice.net/?p=191989

Clinicians’ curiosity, kindness and flexibility towards cultural and religious traditions were appreciated by participants as a sign of respect and empathy.

Today Madeline Katta-Worae madeline mawusi summarises a UK study of perinatal mental health services, which explores the experiences of Black and South Asian women nationalelfservice.net/?p=191989

Ping The Motherhood Group Maternal Mental Health Alliance PMHP UK Race Equality Foundation blkwomenshealth FaithAction

How do Black and South Asian women experience perinatal mental health services? nationalelfservice.net/?p=191989

What are the reasons for barriers to accessing health care for autistic people, and what can be done to alleviate subsequent adverse health outcomes? nationalelfservice.net/?p=192802

Throughout the thematic analysis, the researchers found that #EpistemicInjustice underlies the experiences of #autistic people accessing healthcare, with respondents feeling reduced to the singular label of autistic nationalelfservice.net/?p=192802

#WholePerson #DiagnosticOvershadowing

A brilliant new Centre for Mental Health blog by my wonderful colleague Jan Hutchinson explaining the relationships between work and mental health and why Individual Placement and Support principles are essential to help people with work in the right ways for them

£16bn to be spent by Wellcome between 2022 & 2032

Mental health one of three urgent health challenge foci (alongside infectious disease and climate & health)

“How can we find new solutions — pharmaceutical but also behavioural and digital — in the mental health space? “

Black people are much more likely to be exposed to the known risk factors for poor mental health such as poverty, housing insecurity & unemployment. The Black Mental Health Manifesto is calling for action to tackle these drivers.

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Capacity to consent to having capacity assessed – and why thinking about capacity in the abstract is usually so unhelpful mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk/capacity-to-co…

The SPACE framework (Sensory, Predictability, Acceptance, Communication, Empathy) can help clinicians make their healthcare settings more accessible for autistic service users nationalelfservice.net/?p=192802