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How do they do that? Using Appreciative Enquiry to Develop Safety Culture. As they prepare for their workshop at the #Quality2022 conference in Gothenburg, Tony Kelly, Matt Hill and Nicola Mackintosh speak about: - Understanding the interdependence between safety culture and safety/quality improvement - Appreciating how the local relational aspects of effective teams can support shifts in safety culture - How to practically provide support to teams to generate and nurture effective safety culture Speakers: - Tony Kelly, NHS England & Improvement; England - Nicola Mackintosh, Social Science Applied to Healthcare Improvement Research (SAPPHIRE) Group, University of Leicester; England - Matt Hill, NHS England and Improvement; England - Becky Wilson-Crellin, NHS England & Improvement; England

Keir Harding and Hollie Kerrigan from Beam Consultancy talk about 'personality disorders', out of area placements and diagnostic labels, as they reflect on everything that has happened at the BIGSPD annual conference in Northampton.

David Gibbs and Allison Joseph share their thoughts on racism at the British and Irish Group for the Study of 'Personality Disorder' conference in Northampton. David is a trainer and consultant on race and mental health. He also serves as a Magistrate in Birmingham. As an Expert by Experience consultant, he works with the Department of Psychology, University of Birmingham and with the Common Awards, University of Durham, on race and inclusion. Allison is the @MadBlackPixie, a mental health activist, and part of the Mad Studies Birmingham group that presented at the BIGSPD conference in Northampton.

Having just performed their Open Letter piece at the BIGSPD Annual Conference: A Performed Exploration of Democratic Solutions for Distress Often Referred to as ‘Personality', Fi and Mel talk about their lived experience of mental health difficulties, their creative approach to starting meaningful conversations about 'personality disorders', and their hopes for the future of training for people who work in the mental health system.

Dr Rob Schafer, a GP from the homeless medical centre in Oxford, speaks about his work with Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, developing a personality disorder training programme for general practice teams that transforms attitudes and facilitates specific practice level change.

Ms Helen Morgan, Psychoanalytic Psychotherapist from the British Psychotherapy Foundation, speaks about whiteness before her keynote talk at the 2022 BIGSPD Annual Conference, which is taking place in Northampton on 14-16 June 2022. bigspd.org.uk/conference-2022/

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/

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Dean Rogers Govender, the Dean of Manchester, opens the Tale of Three Cities podcast, which was recorded at Manchester Cathedral on 31st May 2022.

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/

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 Inequality https://valuesbasedpractice.org/what-do-we-do/networks/race-equality-and-whiteness-network/

Professor Andrew Thompson, Dr Sarah Maguire and Professor Mark Dadds discuss a number of national research centres in Australia.

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/

Professor Louise Howard, Professor in Women's Mental Health in the Department 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 and efficiency, and potentially contributing to a failure of health providers to deliver gender-sensitive mental health treatments and services, to the detriment of both men and women. The IoPPN research group Section of Women's Mental Health have therefore focused on gendered determinants of mental disorders (and other structural determinants) and investigated gender sensitive interventions particularly perinatal mental health treatments and services. In this keynote talk, Professor Howard will discuss some of the group's recent findings and their impact.

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 across the globe. The pandemic took us through the fear of the unknown, overwhelmed health systems, delays and cancellations of ‘regular' care. We have big challenges managing the tension between the recovery of our people and the recovery of healthcare services. This interactive session will explore organizational energy and practical strategies on recovery from significant events such as a pandemic. We will explore how we might re-design the way we work so that when we face another crisis, we are prepared to support the wellness of our teams and health of our system. After this session, participants will be able to: -Articulate the need for post-pandemic rest and recovery to ensure the sustainability of our people and the healthcare system -Identify the multiple aspects of organizational energy and implement strategies for addressing in the context of post-pandemic recovery -Explore how quality improvement can play a pivotal role in people recovery and service recovery. Christina Krause is the Chief Executive Officer of the BC Patient Safety & Quality Council and an Adjunct Professor, School of Population & Public Health, Faculty of Medicine at the University of British Columbia. Her interests include the use of social change models and network theory in efforts to engage and mobilize stakeholders, as well as the role of culture, teamwork and communication to advance quality of care. Christina is an EXTRA Fellow with the Canadian Foundation for Healthcare Improvement, a member of the Board for the OSNS Child & Youth Development Centre, and a member of the Board Quality Committee at Canuck Place Children's Hospice.

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 , UK Too good for your own good? Advances in the understanding and treatment of clinical perfectionism. Adam Radomsky, Concordia University Montréal, Canada Making CBT for OCD better one experiment, one belief, one step at a time. The 50th Annual BABCP Conference will take place in London on 20-23 July 2022: babcp2022.org/

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 you shouldn't wait for the perfect funding call to come along. Find out more about EPSRC: https://www.ukri.org/councils/epsrc/ Find out more about Mental Health Research Matters: www.mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk

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 mental health research. He also talks about the importance of interdisciplinary research, and the role of the EPS community in mental health research. This is a fascinating episode from the #MentalHealthResearchMatters interdisciplinary podcast series. Thank you Terry for taking part. Find out more about DataSig: https://www.datasig.ac.uk/ Find out more about Mental Health Research Matters: www.mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk

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 problems at home. These sensors can help researchers better understand physical and mental health conditions outside of a lab or hospital setting. Amid and Aisling discuss the importance of interdisciplinary research, researching health problems that serve and involve the communities you're trying to help, and share tips for early-career engineering and physical sciences researchers looking to get involved in mental health. Find out more about SPHERE here: https://www.bristol.ac.uk/engineering/research/digital-health/research/sphere/ Find out more about #MentalHealthResearchMatters here: www.mentalhealthresearchmatters.org.uk

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

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.

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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 occupational trauma. Completing her Bachelor of Arts (Hons Psych) in 1998 she was awarded the degree of Doctor of Philosophy in Medicine at The University of Adelaide in 2010 for her research examining the adult mental and physical health outcomes of childhood exposure to the 1983 Ash Wednesday Bushfires. Since 1999 she has held various academic appointments at the University of Adelaide under the direction of International PTSD Specialist Professor Alexander McFarlane and was formally the Director of Research at the University of Adelaide Centre for Traumatic Stress Studies. Dr Van Hooff has authored 57 journal articles, 1 book chapter and 31 commissioned reports for the Australian Departments of Defence and Veterans' Affairs and the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service. Over the course of her career, she has conducted several large-scale longitudinal studies of childhood survivors of the 1983 Ash Wednesday Bushfires, children hospitalised for a significant burn injury, children exposed to the neurotoxic effects of lead in childhood and adults exposed to the 2006 Black Tuesday Bushfires on the Eyre Peninsula in South Australia. Since 2009, her research has focused on the mental health and wellbeing of current and ex-serving Australian military and emergency service personnel, as the lead researcher on three landmark studies: Transition and Wellbeing Research Programme, The Military Health Outcomes Programme and the South Australian Metropolitan Fire Service Health and Wellbeing Study. These studies were the first in Australia to ascertain the prevalence of ICD-10 Mental Disorder in current and ex-serving ADF members and South Australian Firefighters and have been strong drivers of change in relation to policy and service provision. Over the last 10 years, Dr Van Hooff has received over $10M in competitive and commonwealth grant funding, with most of this funding invested in research designed to enhance the mental health and wellbeing of current and former Australian servicemen, servicewomen, and their families. Currently she is a chief investigator on two studies examining the health and wellbeing of emergency service personnel following the 2019/2020 bushfires.

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

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 speakers and a Chair will take questions from the audience with the aim to discuss how eating disorders can be integrated into the field of mental health and become everybody's responsibility. Deb Mitchison is an NHMRC Early Career Research Fellow at the Translational Health Research Institute, Western Sydney University, and a clinical psychologist specialising in the treatment of eating disorders. Her research focuses on eating disorder epidemiology, risk, prevalence, distribution, burden and treatment-seeking and she has published > 90 highly cited papers. Dr. Laura Hart is a Senior Research Fellow in the Centre for Mental Health at the University of Melbourne, and a Director of the not-for-profit health promotion organisation Body Confident Collective. Laura's research focuses on developing and evaluating programs for the public to improve prevention, awareness and help-seeking for mental illness, with a special focus on eating disorders prevention. She has published 50 peer reviewed papers and three books. AJ is of Wiradjuri / Wotjobulak Aboriginal background. He is Founder, Director & Lead Consultant of Girraway Ganyi Consultancy since 2007. AJ holds qualifications in Social Work (BSW & MSW), Education (Med), Nursing (specialising in maternal health & mental health), Youth Work (Indigenous adolescence & mental health), Aboriginal Health Work, Community Development, Leadership & Management & Aboriginal Leadership. He is a Principal Master MHFA Instructor, who has provided over 600 Mental Health First Aid courses nationally. AJ has over 30-years experience in the health & community service sector, Aboriginal organisations & communities, TAFEs and universities. From 2010-2015, AJ was the National Program Manager of the Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander MHFA training program. He is a Cultural Advisor for Independent Schools Victoria, Association of Graduates in Early Childhood Education, Beyondblue, Australian Association of Social Workers, ANZEAD and NDEC. He has been involved in research around Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander MHFA, National Quitline Guidelines & Clinical Guidelines for Eating Disorders in larger bodies. AJ was awarded the 2021 NSW Mental Health Matters Award for ‘Indigenous social & emotional well-being', the 2016 Emerging Victorian Indigenous Leader Award, the 2019 Frankston Mornington Peninsula NAIDOC ‘Community Award', 2021 HESTA Awards ‘Diversity & Inclusion' Finalist and the 2021 Reconciliation Victoria HART Award ‘Highly Commended' for the Girraway Ganyi Consultancy YouTube channel. AJ was recently awarded the 2021 AASW Aboriginal Social Worker of the Year. Matthew Flinders Distinguished Professor Tracey Wade is a Clinical Psychologist and director of the Flinders University Services for Eating Disorders. She conducts research across a range of clinical settings as well as in schools. She has over 200 peer-reviewed publications and has co-authored three books describing evidence-based therapy approaches for perfectionism and eating disorders. Professor Hay is an academic psychiatrist and leading mental health researcher. She is the Foundation Chair of Mental Health and academic lead of the Eating Disorders and Body Image (EDBI) group at the Translational Health Research Institute, School of Medicine, University of Western Sydney. Her research focuses on eating disorder epidemiology, burden, treatment and recovery. Prof Hay has published > 330 Scopus indexed scientific papers and 5 books. SMHR Conference: www.smhrconference.com.au

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 Council for the British Association for Psychopharmacology and was supported by the Society for the Study of Addiction as a Senior Academic Fellow. He has contributed clinical guideline development for the National Institute of Health and Care Excellence (NICE) and international projects for the European Union drugs agency. In his talk “The role of cannabinoids in the development and treatment of addiction and mental health disorders” he will firstly outline the effects of THC and CBD, which are distinct cannabinoids found in the cannabis plant. Next, he will present data on how levels of cannabinoids have changed in cannabis over time, and the health impact of these changes. Finally, he will present new trial data investigating cannabinoids as treatments for addiction and mental health disorders.

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, with over 150 publications in this field. Her research has been continuously funded by the ARC and NHMRC over the past 15 years. She has expertise in neuroimaging, psychophysiological, stress, hormonal and memory research. She is a clinical psychologist with over 20 years experience working with traumatized clients and patients with PTSD. She is currently conducting clinical trials to identify ways to augment exposure therapy for PTSD. #SMHR22 conference website: https://www.smhrconference.com.au

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".

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 an Officer of the Order of Australia, included in the Victorian Honour Roll of Women and awarded an honorary Doctor of Medical Science degree from The University of Melbourne, for ‘outstanding contributions to international and community mental health'. Her research and development interests as psychiatrist and public health physician include promoting mental health, community mental health care, and women's mental health. Previously she was Professor and Director of Psychiatry in St. Vincent's Health Melbourne, and for a year acted as regional advisor in mental health for the WHO's Western Pacific Region. She led the WPA's action plan 2017-2020, concerned with supporting the contribution of psychiatrists to global mental health. Publications and lectures include The Lancet-Academy of Medical Sciences International Health Lecture 2021 and “The Lancet-WPA Commission: time for united action on depression” report in 2022. SMHR Conference: https://www.smhrconference.com.au The Lancet Depression Commission: https://www.thelancet.com/commissions/united-action-on-depression

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.au Conference programme: https://www.waldronsmith.com.au/wp-content/uploads/SMHR2022_Program_V6.1-with-session-chairs.pdf

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 Experimental Psychopathology, Bipolar Disorder, Enduring Personality Issues and Psychosis, Older Adults, Intellectual and Developmental Disabilities, Behavioural Medicine, IAPT and PWPs, Therapeutic Techniques and Innovations in CBT, and Training, Supervision, and Professional Issues.

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 involvement and moving towards a future vision for this quality improvement conference becoming a "patients included" event. Find out more about the International Forum Gothenburg 2022: internationalforum.bmj.com/gothenburg/

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 30 March - 1 April 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 the right time. Anette will be involved in this session at the conference: A8: Integrated care: learning from the Swedish experience Find out more about the International Forum Gothenburg 2022: internationalforum.bmj.com/gothenburg/

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 involved in three sessions at the conference: M5: Europe together for population health – Health Improvement Alliance Europe (HIAE) C7: Life is for living! Population based approaches can beat involuntary loneliness D8: Child health in Sweden - 4 projects to improve equity. Best possible start in life. Find out more about the International Forum Gothenburg 2022: https://internationalforum.bmj.com/gothenburg/

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=x6zZrQ45MbQ This 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, which our panel think we should be using in practice Our expert panel - Chair: André Tomlin, Founder, The Mental Elf - Carrie-Ann Black, Mental Health Nurse from Yorkshire, CAMHS Research and Implementation Nurse Lead in South London. Carrie-Ann's job is all about building research capacity and capability across the mental health nurse workforce - Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Psychiatrist from Mexico, where she trained in general adult psychiatry and psychotherapy. Emmeline moved to the UK in 2013 to do a PhD in mental health stigma at KCL. She now works in a crisis team in North London - Becca Read, Clinical Psychologist from Leicestershire. Becca recently completed her clinical psychology doctorate. Now working in the Recovery and Support Team in Richmond General examples of using evidence in every day mental health practice Carrie-Ann talks about a paper that was a catalyst for reviewing physical health needs on her CAMHS inpatient unit. Carney R, Firth J, Pedley R, Law H, Parker S, Lovell K. The clinical and behavioral cardiometabolic risk of children and young people on mental health inpatient units: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2021;70:80-97. doi:10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2021.03.007 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8135692/ Becca talks about a paper that helped her and her early intervention in psychosis team colleagues think through the feelings of disengagement felt by young people in their service and how they could respond: Davidson L, Roe D, Andres-Hyman R, Ridgway P. Applying stages of change models to recovery from serious mental illness: contributions and limitations. Isr J Psychiatry Relat Sci. 2010;47(3):213-21. PMID: 21149986. https://doctorsonly.co.il/wp-content/uploads/2011/12/2010_3_7.pdf Emmeline talks about a meta-analysis that she used when choosing medication to treat a patient: Taylor, DM, Cornelius, V, Smith, L, Young, AH. Comparative efficacy and acceptability of drug treatments for bipolar depression: a multiple-treatments meta-analysis. Acta-Psych-Scand 2014 https://doi.org/10.1111/acps.12343 The world wide woodland Emmeline talks about an article in The Guardian about the pandemic and psychosis https://www.theguardian.com/society/2021/oct/18/psychosis-cases-soar-in-england-as-pandemic-hits-mental-health Becca talks about a BBC news story on Individual Placement and Support https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-58830648 Carrie Ann talks about a new report from The Wellcome Trust about an international survey on anxiety and depression https://wellcome.org/reports/wellcome-global-monitor-covid-19/2020 Elf Nuggets - science making a difference in mental health Emmeline talks about antidepressants in young people https://www.nationalelfservice.net/treatment/antidepressants/antidepressants-youth-depression-anxiety-activeingredientsmh/ Becca talks about autism diagnosis and misdiagnosis https://www.nationalelfservice.net/learning-disabilities/autistic-spectrum-disorder/undiagnosed-autism/ Carrie-Ann talks about self-harm in young people https://www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-health/self-harm/self-harm-primary-care/

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 of Cognitive Neuroscience. Precision psychiatry talks by Ron Kessler and Jon Roiser will take place at the forthcoming IoMH Annual Conference, which takes place online on Wednesday 15th September 2021: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/conference-programme Tickets cost £10 and can be purchased here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/conference-registration

Towards coproduction: Involvement in the Mental Health Policy Research Unit Merle 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…nference-programme Tickets cost £10 and can be purchased here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/conference-registration

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 behaviour” at the forthcoming IoMH Annual Conference, which takes place online on Wednesday 15th September 2021: www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh…nference-programme Poster presentations can be submitted here: www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh…ster-presentations Tickets cost £10 and can be purchased here: www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh…rence-registration If you're in crisis and need to talk right now, there are many helplines staffed by trained people ready to listen. They won't judge you, and could help you make sense of what you're feeling. Samaritans. To talk about anything that is upsetting you, you can contact Samaritans 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can call 116 123 (free from any phone), email jo@samaritans.org or visit some branches in person. You can also call the Samaritans Welsh Language Line on 0808 164 0123 (7pm–11pm every day). SANEline. If you're experiencing a mental health problem or supporting someone else, you can call SANEline on 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10.30pm every day). Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). You can call the CALM on 0800 58 58 58 (5pm–midnight every day) if oyou are struggling and need to talk. Or if you prefer not to speak on the phone, you could try the CALM webchat service. Urgent mental health helplines (England only) If you live in England, you can call a local NHS urgent mental health helpline for support during a mental health crisis. Anyone can call these helplines, at any time. These helplines offer similar support to a crisis team. The NHS website has more information on urgent mental health helplines, including how to find your local helpline.

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 health research, theory and practice.". The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. The 2021 virtual conference will be of interest to a broad range of people interested in trauma, including practitioners, researchers, consumers, service developers and policy makers.

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-programme Dr Duleeka Knipe's talk is entitled: "Suicide in low and middle-income countries – what do we know?". Poster presentations can be submitted here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/iomh-conference-poster-presentations Tickets cost £10 and can be purchased here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/conference-registration If you are interested to read more about means restriction in Sri Lanka you can read the following blogs: https://theconversation.com/pesticides-and-suicide-prevention-why-research-needs-to-be-put-into-practice-102533 https://unearthed.greenpeace.org/2021/03/24/paraquat-papers-syngenta-toxic-pesticide-gramoxone/ If you're in crisis and need to talk right now, there are many helplines staffed by trained people ready to listen. They won't judge you, and could help you make sense of what you're feeling. Samaritans. To talk about anything that is upsetting you, you can contact Samaritans 24 hours a day, 365 days a year. You can call 116 123 (free from any phone), email jo@samaritans.org or visit some branches in person. You can also call the Samaritans Welsh Language Line on 0808 164 0123 (7pm–11pm every day). SANEline. If you're experiencing a mental health problem or supporting someone else, you can call SANEline on 0300 304 7000 (4.30pm–10.30pm every day). Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). You can call the CALM on 0800 58 58 58 (5pm–midnight every day) if oyou are struggling and need to talk. Or if you prefer not to speak on the phone, you could try the CALM webchat service. Urgent mental health helplines (England only) If you live in England, you can call a local NHS urgent mental health helpline for support during a mental health crisis. Anyone can call these helplines, at any time. These helplines offer similar support to a crisis team. The NHS website has more information on urgent mental health helplines, including how to find your local helpline.

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 Emotional Disorders' and its treatment of PTSD". The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. The 2021 virtual conference will be of interest to a broad range of people interested in trauma, including practitioners, researchers, consumers, service developers and policy makers.

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.org/ Prof Iverson's talk is entitled: "Harnessing health services research and implementation science to improve care for individuals who experience intimate partner violence (IPV): Examples from the US Veterans Health Administration". The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. The 2021 virtual conference will be of interest to a broad range of people interested in trauma, including practitioners, researchers, consumers, service developers and policy makers.

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-programme Poster presentations can be submitted here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/iomh-conference-poster-presentations Tickets cost £10 and can be purchased here: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/mental-health/iomh-conference/conference-registration

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 populations 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/ The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. The 2021 virtual conference will be of interest to a broad range of people interested in trauma, including practitioners, researchers, consumers, service developers and policy makers.

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". The 2021 ACOTS conference is a collaboration between ASTSS (the Australasian Society for Traumatic Stress Studies) and Phoenix Australia – Centre for Posttraumatic Mental Health. The 2021 virtual conference will be of interest to a broad range of people interested in trauma, including practitioners, researchers, consumers, service developers and policy makers.

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 Posttraumatic Mental Health. This year's conference theme lays down a challenge to us all in our enduring quest to improve outcomes for those impacted by trauma. The Scientific Committee has brought together a range of international and national keynote speakers who bring their own distinct perspective to challenge the trauma field. Plenary sessions, panel discussions, clinical tutorials and papers will represent a range of interests and current issues in trauma research and practice. This year ACOTS will be a virtual conference using the highly awarded EventsAIR platform in partnership with ICMS to provide a conference platform that will allow real-time interaction and small group online meeting places and discussion groups. Those of you who had the opportunity to join the recent International Childhood Trauma Symposium will have seen what a great digital platform they provided. We have maximised the benefits of a virtual platform to ensure that an engaging live event with real opportunities to interact and an ongoing digital resource that you can view and access for 12 months. Conference website: https://www.acots.org/ Conference programme: https://www.acots.org/conference/conference-program/ Twitter coverage of the conference: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23ACOTS2021&src=typed_query&f=live

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/BobKlaber Find out more about the International Forum on Quality and Safety in Healthcare Europe 2021, which took place on 9-11 June 2021 internationalforum.bmj.com/europe/