Great new paper about child mental health from York’s Emily Hayward Dr Lucy Tindall and others: journals.plos.org/plosone/articl…

ComBAT team members Emily Hayward and Susan Moore visited Lincoln Castle Academy to train staff to deliver our behavioural activation intervention - many thanks to them for joining our study

“The very existence of this new Institute demonstrates how important this issue is. We must act now to better support those facing poor mental health." Professor Lina Gega has been appointed the Director of the new Institute of Mental Health Research. bit.ly/3rxunkD

ComBAT team members Emily Hayward and Susan Moore today trained staff at Westbourne Academy to deliver our behavioural activation intervention - many thanks to them for joining our study

We are excited to announce that we have recruited the 1st person to our #behavioural #activation #RCT with thanks to our site partner Northorpe Hall Child & Family Trust 😀

Further training today on our behavioural activation intervention, this time with East Norfolk Sixth Form College - many thanks to them also for joining our study

Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay. As part of our study we are trialling a new #behavioural activation intervention within the community. We share the vision that mental health support should be inclusive and available to all who need it.

Our recently published Alleviating Specific Phobias Experienced by Children Trial results found One Session Treatment to be comparable to Cognitive Behavioral Therapy in treating specific phobia in young people & is an acceptable cost-saving alternative youtu.be/qohVypPetFk

Great new paper by Lucy Tindall, Lina Gega, Barry Wright and colleagues showing the challenges of carrying out innovative treatment research in NHS child mental health services after years of reduced service resourcing and reorganisation frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

See 🧵 below to read all about the #ASPECT trial which compared one session treatment (OST) to cognitive behavioural therapy (#CBT) for children with specific phobias. Funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research HTA programme Sponsored by Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Katie Biggs COMIC Research

Recruiting now! 🎉 We are seeking families with children with ADHD aged 5-11 to test our new, co-produced, nature-based intervention at home. Contact [email protected] or [email protected] for more info!

This week is Place2Be #Children’sMentalHealthWeek. ComBAT focuses on behavioural activation to improve young people's wellbeing. So we are glad to help spread the word. Learn more at: childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk

What's the most valuable lesson you've learned as an adult which you wish you knew as a teenager?

This week is #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek See below to find out about the #ASPECT study which looked at treatments for phobias in children. This study was funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research HTA programme and sponsored by Leeds & York Partnership NHS Foundation Trust Katie Biggs COMIC Research

Another successful day of training in ComBAT Behavioural Activation with our friends at Humber NHS Research Team East Riding 0-19 (25) ISPHN Service - we are so glad to have you as partners in our #RCT - and thank you for all the young people you have recruited and delivered the intervention to so far!

Thank you @ForestMoor! 😃 We much enjoyed meeting you and delivering training in our #behaviouralactivation - welcome to the ComBAT family of sites and we wish you lots of success with your #recruitment of young people onto our #RCT

ComBAT team members Emily Hayward and Susan Metcalfe have been on the road again to provide training in delivering our #Behavioural Activation to young people within our #RCT. This time they have been with RDaSH NHS FT who are joining soon - we look forward to working with you!

We're proud to announce the publication of a new article by the ComBAT team presenting the results of our feasibility study, survey and stakeholder consultations with many thanks to the publisher Frontiers, editor Daniel Hayes, PhD and the reviewers. frontiersin.org/journals/child…