The Mental Elf

Andrew Beck (President of the BABCP) and Saiqa Naz (President-Elect of the BABCP) help us prepare for the 50th Annual Conference of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, which is taking place in London on 20-23 July 2022.Find out more on the #BABCP2022 website: https://babcp2022.org/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Carolina Klüft is a former elite track & field athlete and today the Operations Manager at Generation Pep. Generation Pep is a non-profit organisation promoting physical activity and healthy eating behaviors among children and youth in Sweden. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Martin Bohus, Senior Research Fellow, Ruhr University Bochum, Heidelberg University, speaks about "How to treat co-occurrinq PSTD in Patients with BPD" before his keynote talk at the #BIGSPD22 conference. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Sarah Hughes, CEO of Centre for Mental Health, shares her vision for communities that can truly provide the support that young people affected by severe mental illness need. This conversation was recorded at the Tale of Three Cities event, which took place at Manchester Cathedral on 31st May 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Peter Fonagy, Chief Exec of the Anna Freud National Centre for Children and Families, speaks about youth mental health, 'personality disorders', and how we can best support young people. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Five women from the PLACE Network speak about their experiences as parents and carers of young people with a diagnosis of personality disorders. This conversation was recorded at the Tale of Three Cities event, which took place at Manchester Cathedral on 31st May 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dean Rogers Govender, the Dean of Manchester, opens the Tale of Three Cities podcast, which was recorded at Manchester Cathedral on 31st May 2022. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Thanos Karatzias from Edinburgh Napier University, talks about"Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder: the overlaps and differences" before his keynote talk at the 2022 annual conference of the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder. Find out more: https://bigspd.org.uk/conference-2022/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Speaking before his plenary talk at the 2022 BIGSPD conference, Dr Colin King from the University of Oxford Race Equality and Whiteness Network, speaks about Personality Disorder and Racial Inequalityhttps://valuesbasedpractice.org/what-do-we-do/networks/race-equality-and-whiteness-network/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Andrew Thompson, Dr Sarah Maguire and Professor Mark Dadds discuss a number of national research centres in Australia. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Oliver Dale and Kirsten Barnicot preview the 2022 Annual Conference of the British and Irish Group for the Study of Personality Disorder (BIGSPD), which is taking place in Northampton on 14-16 June 2022.https://bigspd.org.uk/conference-2022/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Louise Howard, Professor in Women’s Mental Health in theDepartment of Health Service & Population Research at King's College London. Differences in the epidemiology of mental disorders in men and women are well-established. Despite this, it could be argued that until recently mental health research largely ignored sex (and gender) differences, risking undermining of scientific validity a...

How do we support health and care staff who are burned out, exhausted and thinking of leaving their profession? Christina Krause, CEO of the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council previews her workshop with Helen Bevan from NHS Horizons, which takes place on Wednesday 22nd June 2022: Rest and recovery post-covid: a necessary step for quality. Covid-19 placed unprecedented stress on healthcare systems...

Speaking before their keynotes at the BABCP 2022 Annual Conference, Roz Shafran and Adam Radomsky talk about OCD, Control, Doubt, Perfectionism & CBT.Roz Shafran, UCL Great Ormond Street Institute of Child Health., London , UKToo good for your own good? Advances in the understanding and treatment of clinical perfectionism. Adam Radomsky, Concordia University Montréal, CanadaMaking CBT for OCD bett...

As the mental health crisis continues, The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council are finding mental health researcher higher up their priority list. Philippa Hemmings, Head of Healthcare Technologies at the EPSRC tells the Mental Health Research Matters team how the EPS community can contribute to mental health research. She touches on the importance of interdisciplinary research, and...

How can mathematics contribute to mental health research? Although the two seem distinct, the connection is found in data. Mathematics can help make sense of complex, messy evolving data, helping to build a helpful bigger picture from multiple smaller snapshots. JJ speaks to Professor Terry Lyons, the principal investigator on EPSRC-funded DataSig, about how his work in mathematics led him to ment...

The Mental Health Research Matters team spoke to Dr Aisling Ann O'Kane and Dr Amid Ayobi from the SPHERE project to find out more about human-computer interactions and mental health. Amid and Aisling are part of a team of 100 researchers from different disciplines working on SPHERE - an EPSRC-funded project where participants use wearable or at-home sensors to monitor physical and mental health pr...

Prof. Tony LaMontagne talks to Adam Nebbs at the Society for Mental Health Research conference in Hobart in March 2022.Anthony D. LaMontagne is a Professor of Work, Health & Wellbeing at the Institute for Health Transformation and the School of Health & Social Development at Deakin University Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Fiona Cocker facilitates a discussion with early career researchers about how SMHR can ensure a commitment to building our evidence base to enhance knowledge, services delivery and outcomes. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Gemma Sharp - KIT The Positive Body Image Chatbot by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Dr Miranda Van Hoof previews her talk on "Working with Military and First Responders in Research and Clinical Practice" from the Society for Mental Health Research conference in Hobart. Dr Van Hooff is the Director of Military and Emergency Services Health Australia and an experienced research scientist specialising in the mental health impacts of bushfires, adverse childhood adversity and occupat...

Speaking before their Mental Health Research Architecture and Policy Panel discussion at the Society for Mental Health Research conference in Hobart, Prof Michael Berk and Prof Susan Rossell talk about the new Mental Health Australia General Clinical Trials Network (MAGNET).#SMHR22 conference website: www.smhrconference.com.au Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

All Together Now Panel - Eating Disorders as a specialisation or generalist responsibility. With Deborah Mitchison, Laura Hart, AJ Williams-Tchen, Tracey Wade & Phillippa Hay. This plenary will provide an update on eating disorders epidemiology and burden, and an examination of the historical deprioritisation of these illnesses in mental health treatment, research and funding. A panel of four spea...

Dr Tom Freeman talks to us before his plenary talk at the Society of Mental Health Research conference in Hobart on "The role of cannabinoids in the development and treatment of addiction and mental health disorders".Dr Tom Freeman is Senior Lecturer and Director of the Addiction and Mental Health Group in the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath, United Kingdom. He is a member of Co...

Professor Kim Felmingham speaks to us before her plenary talk at the Society of Mental Health Research conference in Hobart, Australia. Professor Kim Felmingham is the Chair of Clinical Psychology in the School of Psychological Sciences, University of Melbourne. She is recognized for her research investigating the neurobiology of PTSD and the neurobiological mechanisms underlying exposure therapy,...