Professor Andrew McIntosh from the University of Edinburgh, Professor Ann John from Swansea University, Professor Dermot O'Reilly from Queen's University Belfast and Professor Robert Stewart from King's College London, talk about mental health data science in this podcast recorded shortly after the MQ Data Science meeting in December 2020.

MQ Data Science 2020

Welcome to this podcast on suicide means restriction, brought to you by the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders group and the Mental Elf.

*TRIGGER WARNING*

This podcast is aimed at mental health researchers and policy makers. In it we discuss the ways that we can prevent suicide, restricting the means of people taking their own lives, and methods of suicide. Please do not listen to this discussion if you are feeling unsafe.  

Prof Ann John
Professor in Public Health and Psychiatry at the Swansea University Medical School
Co-Director of the Cochrane Common Mental Disorders Satellite 

Dr Lisa Marzano
Associate Professor in Psychology at Middlesex University

Dr Dee Knipe
VC EBI Research Fellow at the University of Bristol

In the podcast, we will define what we mean by this difficult term: suicide means restriction, we'll present what we know works in this field, where the gaps are in our knowledge, and what the priorities are for future research. We will also discuss about why it's so difficult to talk about suicide and explore how can we have safe and constructive conversations about suicide means restriction that involve all of the right people.

Suicide Means Restriction

Professor Terrie E. Moffitt, Professor of Social Development in the Social, Genetic & Developmental Psychiatry Centre at King's College London.

Synopsis: Repeated mental-health assessments in a birth cohort followed to age 45 reveal that mental disorder eventually affects virtually everyone. The predominant pattern among clinically significant cases is adolescent onset followed by a succession of different diagnoses emerging over decades.  Findings challenge our field’s over-reliance on researching and treating specific mental disorders diagnosed in cross-sectional snapshots.

Bio: Terrie E. Moffitt’s expertise is in the areas of lifelong aging, mental health, longitudinal research methods, developmental theory, neuropsychology, and gene-environment interplay. She is the associate director of the Dunedin Longitudinal Study, which follows a 1972 birth cohort in New Zealand. She also founded the Environmental Risk Longitudinal Twin Study (E-Risk), which follows a 1994 birth cohort in the UK. Dr. Moffitt is a licensed clinical psychologist, with specialization in neuropsychological assessment. Her service includes as a trustee of the Nuffield Foundation (UK), chair of the Board on Board on Behavioral, Cognitive and Sensory Sciences at the National Academies of Sciences, member of the National Advisory Council on Aging (US-NIH), and chair of the jury for the Klaus J. Jacobs Prize (Switzerland). She is an elected fellow of the US National Academy of Medicine, British Academy, UK Academy of Medical Sciences, Academia Europa, Association of Psychological Science, and the American Society of Criminology. Dr. Moffitt enjoys working on her poison-ivy farm in North Carolina. Learn more at www.moffittcaspi.com.

Terrie Moffitt #IoPPNfestival

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.

Anna Motz BIPSPD21

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/dagoldmann
https://twitter.com/DrAmarShah

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/

Equity and quality improvement #Quality2021

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/

Kindness #Quality2021

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.

Prof Laurence Kirmayer - Landscapes of trauma #ACOTS2021

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

Merle Schlief, Jackie Hardy, Tamar Jeynes & Mary Birken - Lived Experience Research #IoMHconf2021

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/

Antidepressants, autism diagnosis & self-harm. Elf Nuggets - Oct 2021

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

Helen Herrman - Time for united action on depression

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.

Tom Freeman - Cannabis and mental health

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

Eating Disorders: All Together Now Panel

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

Mathematics and mental health: what's the connection? with Professor Terry Lyons

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/

Thanos Karatzias - Complex PTSD and Borderline Personality Disorder

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.

Martin Bohus - Complex PTSD and BPD

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.

Carolina Klüft - Generation Pep: physical activity and healthy eating in young people

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/

Andrew Beck and Saiqa Naz help us prepare for #BABCP2022

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/

Helen Morgan - Whiteness: a problem for our time

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.

Rob Schafer - 'Personality Disorder' training for primary care teams

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.

Fiona Kuhn-Thompson and Melanie Ball - An Open Letter

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.

David Gibbs And Allison Joseph

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.

Keir Harding and Hollie Berrigan

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

Tony Kelly, Matt Hill and Nicola Mackintosh

Dr. Michel Dugas, Professor of Psychology at the Université du Québec en Outaouais, speaks about his work looking at uncertainty and generalised anxiety disorder.

Find out more about the 50th Annual Conference of the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies, which is taking place in London on 20-23 July 2022: babcp2022.org/

Michel Dugas - Behavioural experiments for intolerance of uncertainty

Dr Sarah Watts and her former patient Paul Edwards speak abut their journey together as a CBT therapist and client, and the book they are writing together about hope and recovery.

Paul Edwards And Sarah Watts

Professor Willem Kuyken, Director of the Oxford Mindfulness Centre, discusses his new meta-analysis of mindfulness based cognitive therapy (MBCT) for recurrent depression. This new study is an important step forward for MBCT which now deserves to be considered alongside other evidence-based treatments for preventing the recurrence of depression. 

Willem also told us about his own personal journey to becoming one of the world's leading mindfulness researchers, and along the way we talked about the evidence for mindfulness-based interventions, the safety and cost-effectiveness of mindfulness, researcher allegiance, mindfulness in schools and how he sees mindfulness fitting into care pathways for people with depression.

Mindfulness with Willem Kuyken

The COCAPP study is about mental health risk, care planning and therapeutic relationships. This podcast interview with Alan Simpson and Sarah Carr explores the importance of assessing and managing risk, how to make care planning work for staff and service users, and what constitutes a positive therapeutic relationship.

Along the way we talk about the impact that austerity is having on the lives of service users, carers and staff, and we discuss what needs to be done to make research a central component of frontline mental health practice.

Recovery-focused care planning with Alan Simpson

Professor Sonuga-Barke discusses his ERA study, published today in The Lancet: Child-to-adult neurodevelopmental and mental health trajectories after early life deprivation: the young adult follow-up of the longitudinal English and Romanian Adoptees study.

Early life deprivation with Edmund Sonuga-Barke

Amir Sariaslan talks to Derek Tracy and André Tomlin about his recent study: Neighborhood influences on violent reoffending risk in released prisoners diagnosed with psychotic disorders. The discussion also broadens out to discuss causal inference in social epidemiology.

Amir Sariaslan

Clinical Psychologist, Psychotherapist and Activist Jay Watts talks to us about borderline personality disorder and trauma-informed care.

Jay Watts

Fennie is working to increase access to mental health care and empower patients to master their own well-being. Smart use of technology can facilitate sustainable behavioural change in people.

Fennie Wiepkema & Sophia Abbar-Rimlinger

Clinician, Academic and Writer, Professor Linda Gask speaks about her own experience living with depression and anxiety, whilst working as a psychiatrist in the NHS.

Linda Gask

A conversation with Dr. Christine Borgman and Dr. Irene Pasquetto about their Cochrane Collaboration presentation "How and why do scientists reuse others’ data to produce new knowledge? Background, Foreground, and Beyond"
Dr. Borgman on Twitter: https://twitter.com/SciTechProf
Dr. Pasquetto on Twitter: https://twitter.com/IrenePasquetto

Beyond The Room Cochrane Colloquium 2018

Christine Borgman + Irene Pasquetto - Data Science

Professor of Mental Health and Social Inclusion at the University of Nottingham talks about hope, recovery and mental health.

Mike Slade

Dr Shubulade Smith talks about ethnic variations in compulsory detention under the Mental Health Act and what we can do about them.

Lade Smith

Bethan Edwards, Rick Burgess and Ellie from Recovery in the Bin

Neorecovery: A survivor led conceptualisation and critique

This keynote at #MHNR2019 aims to introduce the survivor led critique and conceptualisation of Neorecovery. It will do this by:
- Contextualising the emergence of Neorecovery, paying particular attention to its policy, service and political context.
- Conceptualising Neorecovery as a distinct vision and approach by examining its values, politics, practices and harms.
- Examining Neorecovery’s implications for mental health nursing and research.

Recovery in the Bin

Dr Trevor Turner, Consultant Psychiatrist from the East London NHS Foundation Trust talks to Mark Brown about the past, present and future of mental health community care.

Trevor Turner

Dr Marc Bennett from the University of Cambridge talks about his Wellcome Trust Active Ingredients project on psychological decentering as a core component in the treatment and prevention of youth anxiety and depression.

Marc Bennett - Psychological decentering

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