Our paper on brief 11-item RCADS is now available as a preprint!🤓A BIG thanks to all schools, families and co-authors! @pollywaite Tessa Reardon Cathy Creswell 💙 Dr Faith Orchard AnDY Research Clinic TOPIC Research Group #SueSpence #BruceChorpita #RayPercy More details below... 👇

Research Review: The relationship between #socialanxiety and social cognition in children and adolescents: a systematic review and meta‐analysis (2020) By Samantha Pearcey Bhisma Chakrabarti @bhisma.bsky.social Professor Helen Dodd Brynjar Halldorsson Cathy Creswell 💙 et al buff.ly/2POH5bN

Really pleased to see this paper out online (open access) exploring adolescents’ experiences of brief behavioural activation for depression and its impact on the symptom of anhedonia 😀onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.11… @DrS_Reynolds Laura Pass Prof Ciara McCabe

New #CoSPACEOxford report finds children & young people from low income households 2.5 times more likely to have had elevated mental health difficulties during lockdown than higher income peers. Economic and Social Research Council Medical Sciences Cathy Creswell 💙 UK Research and Innovation @pollywaite bit.ly/2Rq8kKw

Great to see and hear young people describe their experiences of life during the pandemic using creative outputs Fully Focused #YouGotThis youtu.be/6f9XyehEeeA

Do you work with 11-16 yr olds? Would they be interested in sharing what they think YP need to support their mental health during COVID-19? emergingminds.org.uk/co-ray-project/ We have designed a quick activity and would love your help to produce useful resources for YP. @TRIUMPHnetwork

My wife Suzannah Stuijfzand, my teammate, my buddy, my best person in the world, died last week. She was an incredibly talented Developmental Psychology researcher, deeply passionate about her work and its impact. I want this thread to showcase some of her important work.

Congratulations to @SellarsElise on her recent article on Young people’s advisory groups (#YPAG) in #healthresearch. Amazing work and well done from everyone in the group! 👉Read Elise's article here: adc.bmj.com/content/early/…

Great to see so many people at our #CoRAY webinar today! Looking forward to using all these great insights to develop/disseminate mental health resources for young people in collaboration with our project partners Fully Focused Headliners UK

So happy to have passed my PhD viva today! 🙂 Thanks to Barney Dunn and Fiona Knott and to everyone who helped and supported me along the way!! 🥰

Sending so much respect and admiration to everyone this morning who is waking up again today exhausted but ready to do all they can to support and protect the children and young people they support, care for and work with.

New paper alert🥳In this #QualitativeResearch study, we asked 22 adolescents with the diagnosis of #anxiety and/or #depression (+20 of their parents) about reasons for (not) seeking professional help for their #mentalhealth problems. What did they say?👉 link.springer.com/article/10.100…

Do you support or work with 11 - 16 year olds? For our CoRAY project, we have worked with researchers and clinicians on evidence based briefs for those supporting young people on the topics that YP told us were most important right now 1/6 emergingminds.org.uk/resources-for-…

🗣️ Free online conference: Youth Mental Health & #COVID19: What do we know and what should we do? hosted by Emerging Minds Network, The Policy Institute & ESRC Centre for Society and Mental Health 👉1 March – 3 March👈 Register here: emergingminds.org.uk/conference-you…

Watch the first film in the KeepCool series, co-produced with young people from McPin Young People's Network, and share your tips on how to deal with anxiety with #KeepCoolKCL. In collaboration with Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, NHS Maudsley and The McPin Foundation.

We are updating our #CoRAY evidence synthesis on how the pandemic has affected the mental health and wellbeing of YP aged 11-16 in the UK. What have you been working on? [email protected] emergingminds.org.uk/co-ray-project/ emergingminds.org.uk/co-ray-researc…

Feeling tired and unmotivated? Read some useful advice from Dr Becca Watson! 👇issuu.com/cherwellonline…