Mental Health and You

Diagnosis in mental health is a contentious issue - it has many conflicting sides. In this research edition, NSFT clinical psychologist Corinna Hackmann and senior research fellow for the University of the Arts Hannah Zeilig, who lives with bipolar 1, talk about diagnosis. This is an area they have explored together during a study called INCLUDE and in this paper about collaborative diagnosis. &nb...

This podcast, developed by the Psychology in Schools Team, explores what resilience is and how school staff can support young people to build their resilience. It features a guest speaker from Thurston Community College, who offers their own perspective on how the current context has impacted young people and staff, and what they have found helpful in a school context to build resilience.  Pl...

This week's podcast comes from the wellbeing service. In this episode, Peer Support Workers Rachel and Andrea will be discussing self-care and self-compassion and why they are important for our mental health. Podcast episode links: YouTube -Kristin Neff- The space between self-esteem and self-compassion The Mindful Self-Compassion Workbook- Kristin Neff & Christopher Germer Kristin Neff The Bl...

This week's podcast comes from NSFT research and is about how exercise might be able to help low mood in teenagers and a special study we are undertaking called The READY Trial. Kayte Rowe, co-investigator on the READY Trial and Kiersten Wakefield the READY Trial delivery lead come together to talk about why we are researching exercise and low mood in young people. They chat about how common low m...

This week the NSFT podcast comes from school and parent support. Psychologists Dr Beth Mosley and Dr Alison Woods are joined by Alex Baker, teacher and member of the senior leadership team at Thurston Community College. They discuss the stress on school staff and Alex tells us some of the small, but surprisingly powerful things school staff have done to stay in touch and support one another. This...

This is our first podcast from the NSFT Recovery College - Sarah Kennard the recovery college tutor for Great Yarmouth and Waverney is joined by Sharn a peer tutor for Ipswich and Bury and Mark the recovery college locality lead for West Norfolk. They are talking big subjects like connections - little connections and being connected with yourself and understanding how you feel. Identity - talking...

Peer support workers Andrea and Rachel explain what their role involves. If you are struggling with your mental health they have walked the journey before you and hope to offer reassurance that other people have felt the same way. In this podcast they discuss what resilience means to them. They have collated ideas from their team on resilience - such as sleep, engaging in new things and not OK is...

This is a podcast about low mood in teenagers from our school and parent support team, featuring clinical psychologist Alison Woods, Dr Tamara Scully who is based at Thurston Community College and Bethan who is a former student from there.   This reassuring podcast takes a deep dive in to what it is like to be a young person during lockdowns and tier restrictions and answers questions on why...

This week’s podcast comes from NSFT research. If you’ve ever wondered what trauma is, how PTSD affects children or how many children suffer from this - then UEA professor of clinical psychology Richard Meiser-Stedman gives a brilliant explanation of these subjects. Richard goes on to explain how he is hoping to make a difference in this area through a research study called DECRYPT which helps youn...

Coming up this December is a brand new podcast Mental Health and You from Norfolk and Suffolk Foundation Trust – NSFT. We will dip into a different department each fortnight to hear their current thoughts on many aspects of mental health. One week we might be wrapped up in research with a psychologist talking about what causes PTSD in children and how we might be able to help, next we will be...