The Mental Elf

Lucy Rocca from Soberistas and Prof Julia Sinclair from the University of Southampton preview their Public Lecture, which is taking place at the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) Summer Meeting in Manchester on 24th July 2023. Find out more by visiting the BAP2023 website, which includes the full programme and details of how to participate: https://www.bap.org.uk/BAP2023 Hosted on A...

The President of the British Association for Psychopharmacology (BAP) helps us prepare for the annual BAP Summer Meeting, which is taking place in Manchester on 23-26 July 2023. Find out more by visiting the BAP2023 website, which includes the full programme and details of how to participate: https://www.bap.org.uk/BAP2023 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Before her keynote talk at the 2023 BIGSPD conference in Glasgow, Dr Satbinder Kaul Bhogal, talks about the importance of exploring intersectionality in addressing harm in services. Dr Satbinder Kaur Bhogal, Clinical Psychologist.  Dr Kaur Bhogal has worked for over 20 years within the field of Mental Health in various organisations. She has led services to support children and adults experie...

Before his keynote talk at the 2023 BIGSPD conference in Glasgow, Dr Daniel Taggart, from the University of Essex, talks about mental health provision for adult survivors in the wake of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse (IICSA) - lessons from the Truth Project. Dr Daniel Taggart, Senior Lecturer in Clinical Psychology, University of Essex  is a senior lecturer in clinical psycho...

Before his keynote talk at the 2023 BIGSPD conference in Glasgow, Prof Giles Newton-Howes from the University of Otago in New Zealand, talks about the history of the term personality disorder and how thinking about taxonomy can help us consider the benefits and harms of diagnosis. Professor Giles Newton-Howes, Professor & Consultant Psychiatrist, University of Otago.  A consultant psychia...

Speaking before his keynote talk at the 2023 IoPPN Research Festival, Professor Oscar Marin talks about his work investigating the development of the cerebral cortex in health and disease, specifically how alterations in the development of the cerebral cortex may predispose humans to schizophrenia or autism. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Speaking before her keynote talk at the 2023 IoPPN Research Festival, Professor Janet Treasure talks about the history of eating disorders, how services and research have developed over the last 30 years, and the problems she is now trying to solve in her work at KCL. The Centre for Research in Eating and Weight Disorders (CREW) aims to find out more about the neurobiological, genetic and psycholo...

Speaking before his keynote talk at the 2023 IoPPN Research Festival, Professor Sir Robin Murray reflects on his 50 years working as a psychiatrist and researcher. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Jesper Ekberg (Strategy for Health Lead; Swedish Association of Local Authorities and Regions (SALAR), Sweden) and Tracey Herlihey (Head of Patient Safety Incident Response Policy; NHS England) talk about precision and passion – the art of making population health actionable; and learning from patient and relative reported adverse events. Jesper and Tracey will be running sessions at the...

Joan Russell (NHS England), Douglas Findlay (Royal Berkshire NHS Foundation Trust), Charlotte Verner Rossing (Danish College of Pharmacy Practice) and Radha Sundaram (NHS Greater Glasgow and Clyde) talk about involving and working in partnership with patients in patient safety; building capacity to understand the patient, and yourself; and care at end of life in ICU – what matters to patients matt...

Alice Forsythe (Virginia Mason Institute), Cian Wade (Harvard School of Public Health) and Mando Watson (Connecting Care for Children) talk about embedding equity into leadership and practice management, reducing health inequalities through collaboration, and how action on patient safety can reduce health inequalities. Alice, Kian and Mando will be running sessions at the International Forum on Qu...

Göran Lindahl (Chalmers University of Technology, Gothenburg, Sweden), Cat Chatfield (Director of Health Services Research UK) & Paul Barach (Thomas Jefferson University, Philadelphia, US) talk about the challenges currently facing health systems around the world, in terms of recruitment and retention of health professionals, and staff wellbeing. They discuss the built environment and how we c...

Jason Leitch (National Clinical Director for Scotland) and Laura Wilson (Director for Scotland for the Royal Pharmaceutical Society) talk about the impact that our healthcare systems have on climate change, the commitments made to address these problems, and what everyone (from big corporations to frontline practitioners) can do to make our healthcare more sustainable. Jason and Laura will be pres...

Welcome to the podcast for the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare https://internationalforum.bmj.com/copenhagen/ Jointly organised by the  Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI)  and  BMJ , the International Forum has a rich history of supporting and energising the international movement for health and care improvement. From 300 people meeting in London in 1...

Deanna Van Buren is an award-winning architect and activist recognized internationally for her leadership in using architecture, design, and real estate innovations to address the social inequities behind the mass incarceration crisis. Van Buren is co-founder of  Designing Justice + Designing Spaces , an architecture and design firm with the mission of dismantling the punitive infrastructure...

Alex Kenny (Peer Researcher) and Jessica Bond (Senior Researcher) from the McPin Foundation talk about the patient experience of gameChange using a peer research approach. Dr Sinéad Lambe, Research Clinical Psychologist & NIHR Doctoral Fellow at the University of Oxford presents the results from the gameChange trial and next steps with implementation in the UK and overseas. Hosted on Acas...

Dr Stefan Rennick-Egglestone, Senior Research Fellow at the University of Nottingham Institute of Mental Health, speaks about the NEON study (Narrative Experiences Online) after his talk at the MindTech conference in London on 24th November 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Tim Kendall, National Clinical Director for Mental Health from NHS England, speaks to us before his keynote talk at the MindTech conference in London on 24th November 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Can school connectedness help prevent anxiety and depression? How can schools support the mental health of LGBTQ+ youth? In this 28-minute discussion, Dr Monika Raniti and Dr Gemma Lewis explore the links between school connectedness and mental health; specifically how the school ethos, environment and policy can help promote mental health in LGBTQ+ young people. 00:44 Introductions 01:06 What is...

What's the relationship between money and mental health? What impact can we have with cash transfers or universal basic income? In this 24-minute panel discussion, Prof Johannes Haushofer, Prof Matthew Johnson and Laura Peters from Rethink explore the links between money and mental health; specifically how interventions like cash transfers or universal basic income can help prevent or treat anxiet...

How can emotional regulation help with youth anxiety and depression? How can we teach emotion skills to young people? In this 22-minute panel discussion, Dr Alex Daros (Toronto, Canada), Dr Matt Sommerville (London, UK) and Chloë Morgan explore the links between our emotions and our mental health; specifically how giving young people the skills to manage and control their emotions can help prevent...

Can physical activity prevent or treat youth anxiety or depression? How can remote measurement technologies help with youth mental health? In this half hour panel discussion, Dr Alan Bailey (Melbourne, Australia), Fiyory Ghezae, and Dr Annie Walsh (London/Birmingham) explore the links between physical activity, exercise and good mental health, and consider the future possibilities of wearable tech...

Why is sleep so important for youth mental health? In this half hour panel discussion, Prof Sarah-Jayne Blakemore (Cambridge, UK), Prof Russell Foster (Oxford, UK) and Prof Ian Hickie (Sydney, Australia) explore the relationship between sleep and youth anxiety and depression. They explain why sleep is so important during adolescence and present some of the ways that young people can learn more abo...

Can having a sense of purpose in life help with youth mental health? How can spiritual and religious beliefs help us to stay mentally healthy? In this half hour panel discussion, Dr Emily Hielscher (Brisbane, Australia), Prof Christopher Cook (Durham, UK) and Dr Shilpa Aggarwal (Mumbai, India) explore the links between religion, sprituality, sense of purpose and youth mental health. 01:17 Introduc...

Warren Binford is an internationally recognized children’s rights scholar and advocate who is a frequent writer and speaker on a variety of children’s issues, including 21st century forms of child abuse, exploitation, and neglect. She founded the Child and Family Advocacy Law Clinic at Willamette Law School and has provided legal expertise to many international organizations, including Save the Ch...