Dr Emma Černis It’s an exciting start to the week as we welcome Sapphi to the OCAP research team Oxford Psychiatry 🥳 (feat. fellow #Mentalhealth researchers: Sinead Lambe Simone Saidel Rowan Diamond, Ellen, and Ariane)

Fantastic to welcome 150 clinicians to the first ever training of the Feeling Safe Programme - the most effective psychological therapy for persecutory delusions youtube.com/watch?v=vUUxrt…

NEW JOB? We are looking for three assistant psychologists to join the RAPID trial - a new project to help people manage suicidal thoughts. Closing this weekend. jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916… jobs.nhs.uk/xi/vacancy/916…

"You're kind of like, I've got the world to grow into, but it's not something safe." This is one I like a lot: in-depth interviews understanding paranoia in adolescents. Important gender aspects too. Great work Jessica Bird Felicity Waite Oxford Psychiatry doi.org/10.1111/papt.1…

Many patients with psychosis can be largely housebound. We’ve been outlining how this can be viewed as agoraphobia arising from multiple fears (treatment results coming soon too). The new Oxford Cognitions and Defences Questionnaire aids this perspective. doi.org/10.1017/S13524…

We are looking for participants to come in to the OxfordUni Oxford Psychiatry for a 45-min virtual reality (VR) study, looking at the introductory experience of VR consultation for fear of heights. You will be reimbursed for your time! Sign up:oxford.onlinesurveys.ac.uk/vr-study-scree… #VR #psychology

VR role-play therapy helps people with agoraphobia, finds study theguardian.com/technology/202…

gameChange results are out! Six sessions of automated VR therapy reduced agoraphobic avoidance and distress for patients with psychosis. People who were mainly housebound had large benefits maintained at 6mths. Oxford Psychiatry National Institute for Health and Care Research @TheLancetPsych thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

What is happiness? How can we nurture our self-confidence and well-being? We are researchers at University of Oxford Oxford Psychiatry looking for people to take part in an online #study about #selfconfidence. Learn more ▶️ tinyurl.com/confidenceoxfo… #mentalhealthresearch #mentalhealth

Any UCL DClinPsy trainees out there who would be willing to chat to me about the course please?! 🙏🏼 Need to decide which course to accept and would love some UCL intel #dclinpsy Thanks 😁😁

We’re recruiting for our brilliant research team University of Oxford Oxford Psychiatry! If you’re interested in #youthmentalhealth then definitely get applying! 👇🏼 my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit… #mentalhealth #researchassistant #assistantpsychologist

Join our clinical psychology research group! Two research assistant positions are available in the Oxford Cognitive Approaches to Psychosis team. Oxford Psychiatry my.corehr.com/pls/uoxrecruit…

A new clinically-relevant framework to understand hallucination distress. Listening and believing negative voices – and there are understandable reasons why people do – will increase anxiety/depression. Congrats Bryony Sheaves fantastic work Oxford Psychiatry academic.oup.com/schizophreniab…

A pleasure to be part of this paper - and an even bigger pleasure to have been part of this research group!

Using virtual reality (VR) to treat persistent persecutory delusions. The THRIVE trial: a test of brief automated VR cognitive therapy vs VR relaxation therapy. Oxford Health NHS FT Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

An excellent training opportunity to become a CBT-ED therapist (CBT for eating disorders). If you’re interested in an enriching and inspiring opportunity within a warm, caring and supportive team, this is for you ➡️ tinyurl.com/Cbt-Ed

📣 We are looking for #healthprofessionals to take part in a focus group to support the development of our UCL Psych & Lang Sci research trialling a #psychologicaltherapy for #menopause Get in touch if you’re interested! We’re keen to hear from you Menopause Mind Lab

So pleased to share our editorial piece ‘The Metaverse as a Therapeutic Space: Opportunities for Public Health Benefits and Clinician-Industry Partnerships', published in the IJHCS. Brilliant to work on this with Simon Riches and Grace Elizabeth Williams shorturl.at/CxtFh

Are you experiencing the menopause transition? We are trainee clinical psychologists at UCL looking for women to participate in our research. Menopause Mind Lab UCL Psych & Lang Sci Please see our poster and scan the QR code for more details. #menopause #menopauseresearch #mentalwellbeing

New early stage experimental work from our team on the use of VR for smoking cessation. Aitor Rovira our VR computer scientist lead. Oxford Psychiatry Oxford ExpPsychology Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre nature.com/articles/s4159…