The Mental Elf

Gill Smith from Kaizen Kata, Northern Ireland and Institute for Healthcare Improvement (IHI) (Ireland) and Elaine Mead from Improvement Care and Compassion (Scotland) preview their workshop at the Gothenburg Quality Forum: "Saving the planet - reducing healthcare waste to improve environmental impact". Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Professor Helen Herrman is is Professor Emeritus of Psychiatry at Orygen and the Centre for Youth Mental Health, The University of Melbourne, and Director of the World Health Organization (WHO) Collaborating Centre in Mental Health, Melbourne. She is former president of the World Psychiatric Association (WPA – 2017-2020) and the International Association of Women’s Mental Health. She is appointed...

Amanda Neil and Fiona Cocker introduce the Society for Mental Health Research podcast, which will accompany the #SMHR22 conference taking place in Hobart, Tasmania, Australia on 24-26 March 2022.Conference website: https://www.smhrconference.com.auConference programme: https://www.waldronsmith.com.au/wp-content/uploads/SMHR2022_Program_V6.1-with-session-chairs.pdf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

The 50th Annual BABCP Conference will take place in London on 20-23 July 2022: https://babcp2022.org/In this podcast, Prof Shirley Reynolds and Dr Jo Daniels talk about the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, and preview the programme for the conference which will include talks and sessions on Adult Mental Health, Children and Young People, Basic Processes and Experi...

How do we work in partnership with patients, carers and service users? Sara Riggare, Patrik Blomkvist and Elin Cederbrant are all members of the patient working group that are working to enhance patient representation across the International Forum. As we prepare for the 2022 European Quality Forum, which takes place in Gothenburg on 20-22 June 2022, Sara, Patrik and Elin speak to us about patient...

Anette Nilsson, Region Jönköping County, Sweden"Don't miss the party in Gothenburg, where new possibilities, inspiration and hope will be created."As we prepare for the 2022 European Quality Forum, which takes place in Gothenburg on 20-22 June 2022, Anette Nilsson speaks to us about how can we build more integrated health and care systems that focus on giving the right care at the right place at t...

Jesper Ekberg, SALAR and Region Jönköping County, Sweden"My heart is really beating a lot around quality improvement and how that can come closer to the public health area".As we prepare for the 2022 European Quality Forum, which takes place in Gothenburg on 30 March - 1 April 2022, Jesper Ekberg speaks to us about creating fairer systems to tackle the inequalities in health. Jesper will be involv...

Welcome to our first ever #ElfNuggets show! If you prefer, you can watch this Elf Nuggets episode on the Mental Elf YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zZrQ45MbQThis show will:- Help mental health practitioners keep up to date with the latest reliable research that they can use in practice- Each month we will discuss three recent studies that we've blogged about on the Mental Elf, w...

Ron Kessler, “Pragmatic Precision Psychiatry”Ronald C. Kessler, Ph. D. is the McNeil Family Professor of Health Care Policy at Harvard Medical School and Director of the World Health Organization World Mental Health (WMH) Survey Initiative. Jon Roiser, “Towards mechanistic precision psychiatry"Jonathan Roiser is Professor of Neuroscience and Mental Health and Deputy Director of the UCL Institute o...

Towards coproduction: Involvement in the Mental Health Policy Research UnitMerle Schlief, "Co-production on the PRU Covid interviews project: what we did"Jackie Hardy, Tamar Jeynes and Mary Birken, "Co-production on the PRU Covid interviews project: reflections - Panel discussion"The IoMH Annual Conference takes place online on Wednesday 15th September 2021: www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh…nferen...

Dr Alexandra Pitman is an Associate Professor in Psychiatry in the UCL Division of Psychiatry and an Honorary Consultant Psychiatrist at Camden and Islington NHS Foundation Trust. Her research interests are in the epidemiology of suicide and self-harm, and preventing suicide. She will be giving a talk on “The impact of peer suicide, suicide attempt, and self-harm on risk of self-harm and suicidal...

Professor Laurence Kirmayer from McGill University is a psychiatrist and expert in transcultural psychiatry. He will be giving the opening keynote talk at the 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress, which will take place online on 14-18 September 2021: www.acots.org/Prof Kirmayer's talk is entitled: "Landscapes of trauma: A social-ecological approach to cultural diversity in mental healt...

Dr Duleeka Knipe is a Vice Chancellor's Fellow, Bristol Medical School (PHS) at the University of Bristol. She will be giving a talk in the forthcoming IoMH Annual Conference, which takes place online on Wednesday 15th September 2021: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/conference-programmeDr Duleeka Knipe's talk is entitled: "Suicide in low and middle-income countries – what do we...

Professor Meaghan O'Donnell is the Head of Research at Phoenix Australia, and Professor in the Department of Psychiatry, University of Melbourne. She will be leading a parallel session at the The 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress will take place online on 14-18 September 2021: www.acots.org/Prof O'Donnell's session is entitled: "Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emot...

Professor Katherine Iverson from the Women’s Health Sciences Division of the National Center for PTSD at the VA Boston Healthcare System, and the University of Boston is a clinical research psychologist and an expert in intimate partner violence. She will be giving a keynote talk at the The 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress will take place online on 14-18 September 2021: www.acots.o...

Professor Tony David, Director of the UCL Institute of Mental Health, talks about the forthcoming IoMH Annual Conference, which takes place online on Wednesday 15th September 2021: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/conference-programmePoster presentations can be submitted here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/iomh-conference-poster-presentationsTickets cost £1...

Professor Nicholas Procter from the University of South Australia is a mental health nurse and will speak about the use of co-design and lived experience within vulnerable populationsHe will be giving a keynote talk at the The 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress will take place online on 14-18 September 2021: www.acots.org/The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (th...

Professor Tim Dalgleish from the University of Cambridge is a clinical psychologist who specialises in transdiagnostic interventions. He will be giving a keynote talk at the The 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress will take place online on 14-18 September 2021: www.acots.org/Prof Dalgleish's talk is entitled: "Transdiagnostic approaches to human distress in the aftermath of trauma".Th...

Professor Zachary Steel, President of the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies (https://www.astss.org.au/) helps us prepare for the 21st Australasian Conference on Traumatic Stress, which is taking place online on 14-18 Sep 2021.The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttrau...

Dr Bob Klaber, Consultant General Paediatrician and Director of Strategy, Research and Innovation at Imperial College Healthcare NHS Trust, speaks about the importance of kindness in relation to healthcare and quality improvement.https://twitter.com/BobKlaberFind out more about the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare Europe 2021, which took place on 9-11 June 2021 international...

Don Goldmann (Harvard Professor and Chief Scientific Officer, Emeritus at the Institute for Healthcare Improvement) and Amar Shah (Forensic Psychiatrist, Chief Quality Officer at East London Foundation NHS Trust, and National Improvement Lead for Mental Health at the Royal College of Psychiatrists) speak about the importance of equity.https://twitter.com/dagoldmannhttps://twitter.com/DrAmarShahFin...

Dr. Cat Chatfield, Research Integrity Editor at The BMJ (https://twitter.com/drcatchatfield) and Dr. Daljit Hothi, Home HD Lead, Consultant Paediatric Nephrologist, Associate Medical Director at Great Ormond Street Hospital (https://twitter.com/DalHothi_HD_QI) speak about the importance of workforce wellbeing. Find out more about the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare Europe 2...

Anna Motz - Working Psychotherapeutically with Women’s Invisible Trauma. Consultant Clinical and Forensic Psychologist working in the Offender Care Service at the Central and North West London NHS Foundation Trust, who has extensive clinical experience working with women in prison and in the community, and with the staff teams who support them. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Professor Peter Kinderman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Liverpool will be speaking at the BIGSPD 2021 online conference, which takes place on 15-16 June 2021. His talk is entitled: "Beyond disagreement and consensus - managing multiple perspectives."Visit the conference website to find out more:https://bigspd.org.uk/online-conference-june-2021/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.c...

Prof Grainne McAlonan, Professor of Translational Neuroscience in the Department of Forensic and Neurodevelopmental Sciences at King's College London. Synopsis: Autism Spectrum Disorder (ASD) is clinically diverse, and its etiological mechanisms are poorly understood. To inform prognosis and generate intervention opportunities we need a better understanding of causal pathways; and subsequently, a...