Eco-anxiety to agency: mental health in the age of climate change youtu.be/FIlx54ljaqg As climate change accelerates, so does the mental distress it causes. New podcast with Dr. Elizabeth Marks and Dr. Kris De Meyer exploring the critical intersection between mental health

Supporting NHS colleagues following a coworker’s suicide: a postvention theory nationalelfservice.net/?p=201828 Brittany Oldale & Sarah Watts Sarah Watts summarise a postvention theory for how to support colleagues’ following a colleague’s suicide within the NHS.

Huge congratulations to Brittany for having her first blog The Mental Elf published. Midlands Partnership University NHS FT CombinedNHS

New The Mental Elf podcast produced by our #MentalHealth PhD students discusses eco-anxiety & considers to what extent such emotions should be classed a clinical disorder. UCL Institute of Mental Health #climatechange

Informative resource on diagnosis, 👇which is clearly here to stay, but will continue, of course, to be improved upon. The bio marker issue also occurs in many physical health conditions (including some neurological conditions), but bear in mind that patients are likely to

Many thanks to Niall Boyce for discussing our paper on diagnostic pluralism in The Mental Elf ! 👇 I hope this encourages folks to read the full text. You can access the pdf here: awaisaftab.com/uploads/9/8/4/… And you can also read some excerpts on my blog: psychiatrymargins.com/p/navigating-d…

📢We need to hear from you! Young people aged 16-25 please answer our 5-minute survey to prioritise our focus on a new digital intervention to support you waiting for mental health treatment ✏️rb.gy/76ahsq @imperialBRC #waitingwell #mentalhealth #coproduction

New national suicide figures are published today in a series of reports. Headline message from Office for National Statistics (ONS) is a rise in 2023, the highest rate since 1999. But, taken together, the reports tell a more complex story. Short 🧵

Solutions like action-based storytelling engage the social brain, helping us learn, solve problems, and build a movement. Sharing stories of action highlights the seriousness of the issue and combats hopelessness. #psychology #ClimateAction

What can GP records tell us about mental health throughout childhood? nationalelfservice.net/?p=200578 Niamh Dooley summarises a recent paper in @TheLancetPsych by Morwenna Senior, Professor Dawn Edge, Tamsin Newlove-Delgado et al #YouthMentalHealth #PrimaryCare #GPs #Trajectories

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