The Mental Elf

The Mental Elf

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Welcome to the Mental Elf podcast, which features interviews with leading experts in mental health: researchers, clinicians, practitioners and experts by experience. I will help you keep up to date with the latest reliable mental health research. Our podcasts are recorded at major mental health events and conferences, and explore a wide range of topics relevant to people who work in mental health and related fields. Check out the Mental Elf website for thousands of free blogs summarising the latest reliable mental health research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Author

The Mental Elf

Category

Science

Podcast website

www.nationalelfservice.net

Latest episode

Jul 9, 2026

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Episodes

Joe Golden 10.10.2019

Joe Golden talks about the 360 video he created for the 2019 World Mental Health Day meeting in York. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Joe Firth 10.10.2019

Joe Firth talks to Vanessa Garrity about Protecting Physical Health in People with Mental Illness: Findings from the Lancet Psychiatry Commission. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Lina Gega 10.10.2019

Dr Lina Gega talks about digital interventions and how they can help people with severe mental illness to manage their physical health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emily Peckham 10.10.2019

Dr Emily Peckham from the University of York talks about The Closing the Gap cohort: a unique resource and opportunity to be involved in research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Simon Gilbody 10.10.2019

Prof Simon Gilbody talks about the mortality gap in mental health and what we can do about it. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Simon Gilbody and Emily Peckham 10.10.2019

Prof Simon Gilbody and Dr Emily Peckham from the University of York preview the World Mental Health Day meeting taking place in York on 10 Oct 2019: "Putting mental and physical health on the same page". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Vanessa Munro 07.10.2019

Prof Vanessa Munro speaks to Vanessa Garrity at the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network meeting in Nottingham. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sian Oram 07.10.2019

Dr Siân Oram talks about the Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network event in Nottingham. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris May 26.09.2019

Chris May, the Founder and Managing Director of Mayden talks to us to finish off the #IAPTconnect19 podcast. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Emma Spencer and Kerry Rolls 26.09.2019

Emma Spencer and Kerry Rolls from Dorset Healthcare NHS Trust talk about developing student wellbeing pathways. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

James Woollard 26.09.2019

Dr James Woollard, the most digitally mature child psychiatrist I know, talks about the here and now of using digital technology to help people who are experiencing mental health difficulties. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Nesta Reeve and Esmee Henstra 26.09.2019

Nesta Reeve and Esmee Henstra talk about the integrated psychological and social model they use at the Norfolk and Waveney Wellbeing Service. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Becky Minton and Lucy Wilson-Shaw 26.09.2019

Becky Minton and Lucy Wilson-Shaw talk about W.O.W. (Ways of Working) - a lunchtime session at #IAPTconnect19. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Rupal Panchal 26.09.2019

Rupal Panchal from the Midlands Partnership NHS Foundation Trust shares her work implementing multiple strategies to help raise awareness and improve staff wellbeing in the South East Staffordshire IAPT team. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jen Martin 26.09.2019

Jen Martin from Mindtech talks about the gameChange VR project, which aims to transform the lives of patients with psychosis by putting powerful automated virtual reality psychological treatment into NHS mental health services. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

David Clark 26.09.2019

Prof David M Clark, National Clinical and Informatics Advisor for IAPT at NHS England, speaks about what IAPT has achieved so far and how the programme can use digital in the future. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ross O'Brien 26.09.2019

Ross O’Brien from the Grenfell Health and Wellbeing Service speaks about using Virtual Reality to start conversations with people affected by the Grenfell Disaster. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Pooky Knightsmith 26.09.2019

A great way to start any podcast, here's Dr Pooky Knightsmith @PookyH helping us all prepare for the #IAPTconnect19 conference in London. She's asking everyone who sits down and talks to people about their mental health these 3 questions:1. Does your patient know you care?2. Do you know what scares them?3. What is good here? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sylvain Baillet 25.09.2019

Professor Sylvain Baillet from McGill University in Canada talks to Mark Brown following his #LaunchIMHCHBH keynote on 'A predictive machinery: network dynamics of brain perceptual inferences'. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Niyah Campbell 25.09.2019

Niyah Campbell, Youth Participation Lead at the Institute for Mental Health at the University of Birmingham speaks to Mark Brown ahead of his Youth Advisory Group workshop on coproducing research. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Heidi Johansen-Berg 25.09.2019

Prof Heidi Johansen-Berg, Director of the Wellcome Centre for Integrative Neuroimaging at the University of Oxford, talks to Mark Brown about brain health, cognitive health and physical activity. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah-Jayne Blakemore 25.09.2019

Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore runs the Developmental Cognitive Neuroscience Group, based at the Department of Psychology at the University of Cambridge and the UCL Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience. At the #LaunchIMHCHBH event in Birmingham she speaks to Mark Brown about the teenage brain. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Louise Arseneault 24.09.2019

Prof Louise Arseneault speaking about bullying and mental health ahead of her keynote at the launch of the Institute for Mental Health and Centre for Human Brain Health at the University of Birmingham. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Matthew Broome 24.09.2019

Prof Matthew Broome, the Director of the Institute of Mental Health at the University of Birmingham talks about the launch of the Institute and the Centre for Human Brain Health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Ed Bullmore 24.09.2019

Prof Ed Bullmore, Head of the Department of Psychiatry at Cambridge University, talks about depression and inflammation, ahead of his keynote talk at the launch of the University of Birmingham Centre for Human Brain Health. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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