📢Health child/youth/family voice projects 📢 💡Do you have good engagement/PPI/involvement work to share from 2022? 👥Were children/young people/parents/carers involved in improving health services? ➡️Tell us more! forms.office.com/e/p9LMCY65H0 ⏰Deadline 19.04.23

Researchers engaging with policy should take into account policymakers’ varied perceptions of evidence #ResearchImpact wp.me/p4m9em-c2x

thank you for taking an interest in our research Familienforschung – Universität Wien ! imp to raise awareness & support parents-children experiencing mental health challenges. focusing on strengths, empower families to identify + improve their network @imed_tweets LBG OIS Center #COPMI Supporting children in Tirol, Austria

did you see our opinion piece in DER STANDARD over the weekend? we discuss the situation in Austria for perinatal mental health, with 2 recent reports available on our website village.lbg.ac.at derstandard.at/story/20001459… @imed_tweets

1/ Co-production can be applied to all kinds of different health & care research. We are coming to the end of #CoProWeek but if you still feel hungry for #coproduction knowledge (theoretical this time!), take a look at this reading list 🧵:

Hearing from prof Kevin nugent about the storytelling capacities of newborns - they have stories to tell us if only we make the efforts to understand what they are trying to tell us and respect the baby as an individual #waimh2023

Excited to be here and get started with this wonderful program! #WAIMH2023

Interesting plenary at #WAIMH2023 by Prof David Oppenheim, discusses the LTP to observe family interactions - moving beyond parent-child to consider additional insights possible by 3 constellation - parent insightfulness, seeing and viewing things from the child’s point of view

Confronting numbers which should challenge change in perinatal/infant mental health care - numbers from Ireland presented by Dr Aoife Twohig, not unique compared to other counties, stigma and fear of child removal major reason for mothers not disclosing their fears #waimh2023

As my nephew refers to him, ‘president of the babies of the world’ Campbell Paul encouraging #WAIMH2023 delegates to consider role of child psychiatry in supporting infant needs/ ‘seeing’ our youngest people. Babies have a wonderful advocate for their agency& mh needs with my dad 🙌

why do we need to diagnose infants, they will just grow out of it Campbell Paul comments, he references hippocrates - "a diagnosis is a way of knowing through, it's a process not an endpoint" #WAIMH2023 infants have a right to a mental health assessment, should they need it

Why should we care about burnout for doctors? Prof Elisabeth Barrett reminds us that higher staff engagement results in better patient care. Burnout especially prevalent in the PICU/NICU with high rates of shame and guilt #WAIMH2023

Rating infant withdrawal - Prof Emeritus Antoine Guêdeney giving his state of the art lecture on shared pleasure and social withdrawal in infant mental health #WAIMH2023

our new review paper as part of our #healthyminds project, led by PhD student Laura Hölzle examining components of peer support programs for women experiencing perinatal mental illness. frontiersin.org/journals/psych… #pimh #peersupport healthy-minds.i-med.ac.at

In our #healthyminds project, we are sensitive to diverse experiences of parenting and gender roles. Our PhD student, Philipp Schöch, focuses on fathers, he investigates screening tools & current limitations for use with men @imed_tweets frontiersin.org/journals/publi… @imed_tweets

Our new paper from Supporting children in Tirol, Austria led by PhD student Mona Schamshula is out - we use discourse analysis and explore ways in which stigma is evident in research interviews with mothers with a mental illness Medizinische Uni LBG OIS Center Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft doi.org/10.1186/s40359…

I was pleased to be part of this doi.org/10.1038/s44220… w colleagues from EU projects sharing experiences of supports for children with a parent with a mental illness. great to co-write w local stakeholders, families, and young people! LBG OIS Center @imed_tweets Supporting children in Tirol, Austria

Happy we can keep talking about mental health, impacts of social support, strength-based, trauma informed, early intervention family approaches in Tyrol @imed_tweets Supporting children in Tirol, Austria science.apa.at/power-search/1…

We examined gendered dimensions of getting treatment for mental illness as a mother - work led by PhD student Mona Schamschula @[email protected] Mothers interviewed discussed structural and perceived barriers sciencedirect.com/science/articl… @imed_tweets Supporting children in Tirol, Austria Ludwig Boltzmann Gesellschaft

Our new paper reporting on Austrian services available for parents and babies to support mental health in perinatal period. Despite services existing, barriers including cost, access, and gaps in care. A national PIMHC strategy is needed @imed_tweets link.springer.com/article/10.100…