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In her debut blog, Shivangi Talwar from @uclpsychiatry UCL Institute of Mental Health UCL Brain Sciences explores this realist review of psychosocial interventions for survivors of human trafficking, which aims to determine what works for whom, in what contexts, and how. nationalelfservice.net/?p=178970

Big thanks to everyone who has shared our Mental Elf fundraising appeal AND to the generous people who have also donated. We elves are quite emotional today, reading all of the lovely supportive responses. Thank you ❤️ Donate now gofundme.com/f/please-help-…

The Mental Elf has >3,000 freely available blogs that keep us all up-to-date on the latest, reliable mental health research. But we need your help to keep this going! Check out the video and #GoFundMe link below to see how you can help save The Mental Elf ⬇️

I’ve had the pleasure of knowing and collaborating with the The Mental Elf for many years. He and his team have been fantastic supporters of mental health nursing research and in promoting and enhancing quality mental health research and critiquing of research. Support if you can.

Have a think about doing something to support the The Mental Elf service. When I joined twitter many moons ago the Mental Elf was one of the big accounts for my area of work.

This was such a fun podcast to host and produce 🎙️ click below to hear about the brill #decolonising #globalhealth event put on by Roxanne Keynejad and Circle U. earlier this year ⬇️

New National Institute for Health and Care Research Mental Health Policy Research Unit pre-print🚨 'Approaches to improve #mentalhealth care for #autistic children and young people: a #systematicreview and meta-analysis'⬇️ Tamara Pemovska Becky Appleton anna greenburgh Una Foye Alan Simpson 💙 Sonia Johnson et al... medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

This is exciting news 🤩🎙️ Our pod, available now on Spotify Podcasts 🎙 and Apple Podcasts check it out ➡️ Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network iVAMHN Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience King's College London HSPRD IOPPN #coercivecontrol #podcast

Very proud of the team that presented and commented on the Mental Health Policy Research Unit work on surveillance technologies in mental health today. Thank you, Una Foye, Jess Griffiths, Dr Andrew Grundy PhD (acgrundy.bsky.social) and Georgia Johnson and to @RRowanOlive for her fine words.

Our Mental Health Policy Research Unit paper on the effectiveness, experience & implementation of #peersupport for mental health is out 🚨 Congrats team Sonia Johnson Alan Simpson 💙 karen machin Phoebe Barnett Becky Appleton Dr Sophie Allan (she/her) et al HSPRD IOPPN Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience National Institute for Health and Care Research ⬇️ bmcmedicine.biomedcentral.com/articles/10.11…

What do we know about peer support for mental health? 1/6. The Mental Health Policy Research Unit Mental Health Policy Research Unit including lived experience researchers, have conducted one of the largest evidence reviews of peer support to date.

A major review involving Prof Sonia Johnson (UCL Psychiatry Mental Health Policy Research Unit) & led by researchers from Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience finds evidence that peer support can aid mental health recovery, #depression and self-belief. Read the story ⬇️ bit.ly/3V1ZyV5

1. The latest paper I’ve co-authored with Mental Health Policy Research Unit. The problem we have with reviewing literature is that results of past research which often not exploring areas of concern identified by Peer Workers, designed, done & written with #LXP researchers is regurgitated >

The use and impact of surveillance-based technology initiatives in inpatient and acute mental health settings: A systematic review (pre-print, before peer-review). New paper from a great team @mentalhealthPRU medrxiv.org/content/10.110…

An update 🚨 With a revamped username (Dr Kitty Saunders), I have taken up an exciting new position as Senior Policy Fellow with Behavioural Research UK UCL Centre for Behaviour Change and the Government Office for Science Government Office for Science - what a first week, hey! 🗳️

New paper out! We collated a list of adaptations to services and treatments for autistic people, many of which are acceptable and can be readily implemented. Approaches to improving mental healthcare for autistic people: systematic review bit.ly/3LNdPPN Mental Health Policy Research Unit

Last week we were visited by Kristina Pfeffer & Bibi Heiberg from Danish Centre for Motivation and Behaviour Science. We were very grateful for their help with developing the fidelity & engagement ontologies (and for the Danish pastries!). Read about the visit & our growing ontology community: 👉 ucl.ac.uk/behaviour-chan…

👀 The Government Office for Science is currently recruiting 8 new members for The Council for Science and Technology! Find out more below. …for-public-appointment.service.gov.uk/roles/8395 ❗Deadline for application is midday on the 7th of October.

New paper alert 🚨 I was so generously brought into this project during my research visit to The Offord Centre for Child Studies last year, huge thanks to Katrina R. Abela, MA (she/her) Melissa Kimber (she/her; #ClincianScientist) and team for this opportunity 🤍 #DomesticViolence #QualitativeResearch link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Great to see Mental Health Policy Research Unit work from researchers at both UCL and Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience featured by National Institute for Health and Care Research 😎 #peersupport #mentalhealth