📢📢ARFID online training courses. Free to HSE staff, €50 to others. Email [email protected] for application form or call (01)2150508 9am-1pm. National HSCP Office, HSE IASLT Association of Occupational Therapists of Ireland HSE Ireland

New survey on language interventions for autistic people! If you're... ✅ an autistic person ✅ a parent/carer of an autistic person ✅ a professional (e.g., SLT) working with autistic ppl ✅ an autism researcher AND in the UK, please consider taking part! bit.ly/3raK6py

"The file" does an incredible disservice to many people with intellectual disabilities. Imagine if you had a file. What would it say about you? What if it recorded some of your worst moments or decisions? Would you want people to read it before they meet you?

Congratulations to my friend and colleague @CorinneMcCabe3 on her first publication today! It was a pleasure to help contribute to this fantastic review UL Psychology Acquired Brain Injury Ireland tandfonline.com/doi/full/10.10…

In this interesting Association for Child & Adolescent Mental Health podcast, Sinéad McGilloway, Founder-Director of the Centre for Mental Health and Community Research Maynooth University and Christine Mulligan Sharma (PhD), discuss how best to support young families experiencing parental mental illness. A must listen: bit.ly/3FAnA0S

“Our graduating class will be the only doctoral psychology cohort in Ireland to receive no payment for our labour this year” buff.ly/3NtFAiv

Celebrating World Maternal Mental Health Day here in the The Coombe Hospital Up to 1 in 5 women experience maternal mental health difficulties www.parenting support.ie/mmh #maternalmentalhealthmatters #letsbreakthesilence

They say not to meet your heroes. I'm so glad Jeff Stelling is mine. I didn't want treatment when in the grip of anorexia. I refused to comply time and time again. Terrifying to think that if that was happening now, I could be given end of life care. Things need to change. NOW.

Thoroughly enjoyed presenting research I completed on occupational stress in CAMHS staff with Fiona McNicholas and colleagues in UCD Child Psychiatry and SJOG Research Foundation at today's ESCAP conference in Copenhagen #ESCAP2023 College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Important data from the Coombe considering the housing crisis in our nation's capital! Lyndsay Creswell The Coombe Hospital Homelessness in pregnancy - European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology ejog.org/article/S0301-…

🚨 Competition Alert 🚨 INSIDE OUT 2 is screening from June 14, but thanks to Walt Disney Studios, Ireland we have a family pass to give away for a special screening on Tuesday, June 11. To be in with a chance of winning, simply RT this!

Instead of spending €9 million on phone pouches, it could be spent on any of the following: - 273 SNAs - 180 teachers - 167 speech and language therapists - 160 occupational therapists - 112 educational psychologists - 26 Dáil bike shed

No bother. What questions are we asking them?

Irish friends, watch this video Alison Oliver and I made about how the Green Party Ireland is about to break its promise and pass a bill to fast-track & prioritise dangerous LNG terminals. Then sign & share the petition telling them to stop it and ban LNG! greensoffgas.org

Our study on the TikTok algorithm and eating disorders is finally published (big thx 2 Emily Harris). We scraped the metadata for ~1 million TikTok videos delivered to users w/ eating disorders versus users w/out eating disorders (i.e. healthy controls) sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

SCIENCE: Exercise such as walking, jogging and strength training, particularly when intense, are 'an effective treatment for depression' and 'could be considered alongside psychotherapy and antidepressants as core treatments', according to Australian research published in BMJ.

Great opportunity with a super team; might be of interest to MU Psychology grads with strong participant recruitment and data management skills ⬇️ #ResearchAssistant

The Pay and Numbers strategy is failing patients and physiotherapists alike. We are calling for it to be stopped. We fully support Physiotherapists taking industrial action to fight for safe staffing and proper resourcing. Enough is enough – the health of patients and