*** NEW PAPER ALERT *** Our study (joint first author Dr Jo-Anne Puddephatt), “Drinkers like me: a thematic analysis of comments responding to an online article about moderating alcohol consumption” has now been published in Frontiers - Psychology frontiersin.org/articles/10.33…

Soo happy to have started my new role as an Assistant Clinical & Health Psychologist at Liverpool Heart and Chest Hospital! 💚 No one prepares you for how hard it is to secure an AP position. So feeling very glad to see the back of endless applications & begin this new chapter!

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10 visuals to boost your mood. 1. It's all a matter of perspective.

Suffering is a fact of nature, & how we frame it an act of culture.

How to take the news that depression has not been shown to be caused by a chemical imbalance joannamoncrieff.com/2022/07/24/how…

It’s World Mental Health Day 🌎. An opportunity to talk about mental health. To share tips & advice. And to let people know that it’s okay to ask for help if you’re struggling 💚. #WMHD #MentalHealth #WorldMentalHealthDay

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Alcohol harm has reached crisis point. An independent review of alcohol harm is the only way we can understand the scale of the problem and provide targeted recommendations to reduce the devastating costs. ahauk.org/news/independe…

Excited to be in Lisbon for the Addictions Conference; the first of my PhD 💙 So encouraging to see lots of interesting research on co-occurring alcohol & mental health problems! #LxAddictions2022

📢I will be advertising an 18 month postdoc job looking at treatment pathways for co-occurring MH and AUDs. A great team including @ProfAmyODonnell Colin Angus Dr Patsy Irizar (she/her) fiona lobban and Profs Jo Knight and Colin Drummond. Please get in touch if you might be interested!

Alcohol-specific deaths have risen by 7.4% in 2021 and are 27.4% above pre-COVID levels. The last #AlcoholStrategy was in 2012. After 10 years of inaction, alcohol harm is out of control. The Government must commission an Independent Review of Alcohol. Lives depend on it.

📢We are advertising an 18 month postdoc job looking at treatment pathways for co-occurring MH and AUDs. A great team including @ProfAmyODonnell Colin Angus Dr Patsy Irizar (she/her) fiona lobban and Profs Jo Knight and Colin Drummond. hr-jobs.lancs.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx?r…. Closing date 29th Jan!

Such important work by Dan Carden & everyone involved. A independent review on alcohol harm is an essential first step to improving the care for those experiencing problems with alcohol use.

🚨Along with 45 leading health experts including academics and parliamentarians, we are urging Chancellor of the Exchequer Sir Jeremy Hunt MP to increase alcohol duty, save lives and reduce pressure on the NHS. Read why: ahauk.org/news/alcohol-d…

How does the alcohol industry use #InternationalWomensDay2023 to sell its products to women? In this blog, researchers from the Public Health Institute at Liverpool John Moores University explore gendered alcohol marketing. ahauk.org/international-… Amanda Marie Atkinson @profhrs

Very interesting paper outlining what I have talked and written about with respect to depression awareness campaigns: sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Happy to have been a part of such important & interesting research! If you have time, give it a read 👏

New publication! Happy to have been a part of this, with such a lovely team. Give it a read if you get chance❕

This has never been more true. So many sociopolitical factors pushing people towards crisis, therapy can’t compete.