The Mental Elf

Sylvia Walby

07 Dec 2018

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Professor Walby OBE will be joining City, University of London, on 1 March 2019. She has been a Distinguished Professor of Sociology at Lancaster Uni...

Seena Fazel

07 Dec 2018

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Seena Fazel is a Professor of Forensic Psychiatry and Honorary Consultant Forensic Psychiatrist. His research focuses on the relationship between ment...

Kate Lovett

07 Dec 2018

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The Dean of the Royal College of Psychiatrists welcomes the launch of the new Violence Abuse and Mental Health Network. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com...

Leonie Tanczer

07 Dec 2018

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Leonie Tanczer is a Lecturer in International Security and Emerging Technologies with a particular interest in the intersection of technology, securit...

Louise Howard

07 Dec 2018

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Professor Louise Howard shares the exciting plans of the new Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network, which is launching today at the Royal College ...

Sian Oram

07 Dec 2018

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Co-lead of VAMHN explains why the new research network will help to understand, prevent and reduce the impact of violence and abuse on mental health. ...

Introduction to #VAMHN

07 Dec 2018

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The Violence, Abuse and Mental Health Network aims to reduce the prevalence of mental health problems among children, adults, and the elderly, by b...

Tom Insel

05 Dec 2018

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Director of Mindstrong and Former Director of the US National Institute of Mental Health, shares his Digital Mental Health Challenge for 2028. Hosted ...

Michael Craven

05 Dec 2018

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AlphaStim cranio-electrostimulation (CES) for generalised anxiety in IAPT services: Health Economic results Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for...

Richard Graham

05 Dec 2018

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Harnessing the Fire: Flourishing in the Digital Age. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Mat Rawsthorne

05 Dec 2018

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Digital Technology for Mental Health: The top ten questions Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Daniel Freeman

05 Dec 2018

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Professor Daniel Freeman, Professor of Clinical Psychology at the University of Oxford & Chief Clinical Officer at Oxford VR, tells us about his work ...

Cathy Cresswell

05 Dec 2018

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OSI Anxiety (Online Support & Intervention for Anxiety), an online therapist- supported, parent-guided CBT program for child anxiety disorders. Hosted...

Ed Watkins

05 Dec 2018

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Developing and evaluating personalised emotional competence skills via mobile app for young people: the H2020 ECoWeB trial. Hosted on Acast. See acast...

Duncan Brown & Manjul Rathee

05 Dec 2018

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Immersive gaming to tackle anxiety in children Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Chris Hollis

05 Dec 2018

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The Director of the MindTech MIC sets the scene for the day today at #MindTech2018 Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Introduction

04 Dec 2018

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Introduction by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Karen McIlwain and Neil Palmer CUES-ED

04 Dec 2018

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Helping children keep their brains amazing! Karen and Neil from CUES-Ed tell us about their innovative psycho-education project based in primary schoo...

Geraldine Strathdee

04 Dec 2018

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"We need to understand people's lives". A great rallying cry from Dr Geraldine Strathdee to kick off a new era for Maudsley Learning. Hosted on Acast....

Chris Attoe

04 Dec 2018

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R&D Lead at Maudsley Learning talks about how their mental health education and training is coproduced for diverse groups of people, not just health p...

James Pathan

04 Dec 2018

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Service Delivery Lead from Maudsley Simulation tells us about his work creating mental health simulation training. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/priv...

Sean Cross

04 Dec 2018

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Dr Sean Cross, CEO of Maudsley Learning talks to me about the relaunch of their mental health learning and education suite of products and tools. Host...

Richard Ings

25 Nov 2018

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Richard Ings from Arts Council England talks about the evidence of impact of arts and culture on health and wellbeing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Vanessa Pinfold

25 Nov 2018

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Co-founder and Research Director at the McPin Foundation talks about the things we can do in our ordinary lives to improve our mental health. Hosted o...

Mark Williamson

25 Nov 2018

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The Director of Action for Happiness talks about his work with communities and mental wellbeing. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more infor...

Helen Chatterjee

22 Nov 2018

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Helen Chatterjee, Professor of Biology at UCL explains why the new MARCH Network is aiming to transform our understanding of how social, cultural & co...

Paul Ramchandani, Early intervention for mental health: the promise and the perils

14 Nov 2018

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The LEGO Professor of Play in Education, Development and Learning at the University of Cambridge talks about prevention and early intervention in ment...

Hamish McAllister-Williams, Antidepressants: the myths and the facts

14 Nov 2018

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Professor of Affective Disorders in the Institute of Neuroscience at Newcastle University speaks about depression, antidepressants and evidence, ahead...

Paul Crawford and Kam Bhui

08 Nov 2018

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Paul Crawford from the University of Nottingham and Kam Bhui from Queen Mary University of London Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more info...

Karen Newbigging

16 Oct 2018

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Senior Lecturer in Healthcare Policy and Management at the University of Birmingham talks about the Mental Health Policy Commission: Investing in a Re...

Eoin Killackey

15 Oct 2018

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The Head of Functional Recovery in Youth Mental Health at Orygen in Australia shares his thoughts on what UK policy makers can do to improve youth men...

Matthew Broome

15 Oct 2018

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The Director of the Institute for Mental Health in Birmingham previews their Inaugural Forum taking place today. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

David Skuse and Roz Shafran

10 Oct 2018

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Prof David Skuse (Consultant Psychiatrist, Head of Behavioural and Brain Sciences at the Institute of Child Health) and Prof Roz Shafran (Consultant C...

Therese Kristine Dalsbo and Marita Sporstol Fonhus

20 Sep 2018

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Two Norwegian Cochrane reviewers talk about their recent systematic review entitled: Patient‐mediated interventions to improve professional practice...

Erin Walker and Katrina Brooks

20 Sep 2018

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Katty Brooks and Dr Erin Walker talk about involving young people in meta-synthesis projects.More information on this work in these two podcasts:https...

Ed Watkins on what the evidence is for transdiagnostic approaches to mental health challenges

18 Sep 2018

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A final interview for #transdx2018, with Ed Watkins examining whether the evidence is there for transdiagnostic approaches and what research might loo...

Gregor Smith - #RealisticMedicine at #CochraneForAll

18 Sep 2018

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Casey Quinlan talks with Gregor Smith, an MD and Deputy Chief Medical Officer of Scotland, talks about #RealisticMedicine and the development of a Sco...

Ruth Elwood Martin & Mo Korchinski

18 Sep 2018

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Ruth Elwood Martin and Mo Korchinski talk about their work in Canada with women in prison: Arresting Hope - Women Taking Action in Prison Health Insid...

Peter Norton On Transdiagnostic Group Therapy

18 Sep 2018

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Doing group based CBT for anxiety but with people who don;t share a diagnosis? That's what Peter Norton has been doing and #beyondtheroom spoke to hi...

Victor Montori - Patient revolution, #PatientsIncluded, and healthcare transformation

18 Sep 2018

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Beyond The Room teammate Casey Quinlan talked to Dr. Victor Montori about his work creating a patient revolution in healthcare, and his message to Coc...

Sara Tai On Taking Not A Transdiagnostic Approach To Therapy But An Adiagnostic One

18 Sep 2018

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Sara Tai On Taking Not A Transdiagnostic Approach To Therapy But An Adiagnostic One at #transdx2010 in Cambridge Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privac...

David Barlow On Neuroticism And The History Of Transdiagnostic Approaches at #transdx2018

18 Sep 2018

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David Barlow is senior leader in the field of psychological treatments. He spoke to #beyondtheroom at #transdx2018 in Cambridge about the importance o...

Caitlin Hitchcock On Autobiographical Memory And Mental Health #transdx2018

18 Sep 2018

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Autobiographical memory is the story we tell ourselves about who we've been. Caitlin Hitchcock spoke to #beyondtheroom at the second day of the #trans...

Emma Cartwright & Jess Rees (part 2)

18 Sep 2018

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They were so good we had to interview them twice! Emma Cartwright and Jess Rees, recipients of the Rosamund Snow prize, speak to André Tomlin (The Me...

Lyubov Lytvyn - #PatientsIncluded in evidence + guidelines

18 Sep 2018

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Casey Quinlan talks with McMaster University PhD student Lyubov Lytvyn about including patients in the research that builds medical evidence.Follow he...

Roz Shafran On Perfectionism And Transdiagnostic Approaches

17 Sep 2018

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Roz Shafran gave a keynote at #transdx2018 on perfectionism and transdiagnostic approaches. We grabbed her straight afterwards for summary for you at ...

Anne Bryde Christensen And Pat Gwyer On Transdiagnostic Ideas And Their Discontents

17 Sep 2018

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Anne Bryde Christensen And Pat Gwyer Discuss some of the challenges in applying the different ideas and approaches within transdiagnostic discussion t...

Sarah Morris On RDoc And Transdiagnostic Approaches To Research

17 Sep 2018

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Sarah Morris Explains RDoc and the US National Institute of Mental Health Health approach to thinking about research Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/pr...

Emma Cartwright & Jess Rees - Rosamund Snow Prize Recipients

17 Sep 2018

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Emma Cartwright and Jess Rees, recipients of the Rosamund Snow prize, speak to Sally Crowe at #CochraneForAll. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy ...

Dalila Martínez - Journey from doctor to patient to medical researcher

17 Sep 2018

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Dr. Dalila Martínez is an epidemiologist, a health researcher, and a patient with a serious condition. She spoke about how those roles have intersect...

Mark Taylor

17 Sep 2018

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The Head of Impact for the Central Commissioning Facility of the National Institute for Health Research talks about research impact, his own experienc...

Dorothy Oluoch - Mothers' experiences in neo-natal hospital wards

17 Sep 2018

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Dorothy Oluoch is a researcher with the KEMRI Wellcome Trust in Nairobi, Kenya. Her keynote at #CochraneForAll carried an emotional punch. Hear her ta...

Jill Newby talks Transdiagnostic Online CBT at #transdx2018

17 Sep 2018

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Jill Newby talks Transdiagnostic Online CBT at #transdx2018 by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Andy Oxman

17 Sep 2018

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Research Director of the Global Health Unit at the Norwegian Institute of Public Health, talking about the Informed Health Choices project and Key Con...

Lisa Hinton

17 Sep 2018

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Deputy Director for Applied Research at the Health Experiences Research Group in Oxford talks about Health Talk: a source of free, reliable informatio...

Tim Dalgleish - What Is A Trans Diagnostic Approach?

17 Sep 2018

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Tim Dalgeish answers the burning question: just what is a transdiagnostic approach to psychiatric challenges? Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy f...

Jennifer Johannesen - The Problem with Patient Engagement

16 Sep 2018

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A BeyondTheRoom conversation with Jennifer Johannesen about her keynote presentation at the 2018 Cochrane Colloquium in Edinburgh.Jennifer on Twitter:...

Holger Schünemann

16 Sep 2018

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Holger Schünemann, Chair in Clinical Epidemiology & Biostatistics at McMaster University talks about the GRADE framework. GRADE a transparent framewo...

Christine Borgman + Irene Pasquetto - Data Science

16 Sep 2018

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A conversation with Dr. Christine Borgman and Dr. Irene Pasquetto about their Cochrane Collaboration presentation "How and why do scientists reuse oth...

Jonathan Gadsby

15 Sep 2018

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A thought provoking conversation about coercion and forced treatment from the founder of the Critical Mental Health Nurses Network. Hosted on Acast. S...

Margaret McCartney

15 Sep 2018

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GP Margaret McCartney talks about evidence-based medicine, relationships and trust, ahead of her keynote speech at the 25th Cochrane Colloquium in Edi...

Richard Morley

15 Sep 2018

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Richard Morley, the Consumer Engagement Officer at Cochrane, explains why it’s so important that #CochraneForAll this year is a #PatientsIncluded ev...

Alan Simpson

13 Sep 2018

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Ahead of his Mental Health Nurse Academics lecture, Professor Alan Simpson from City University talks about the future of mental health nursing, auste...

Laoise Renwick

13 Sep 2018

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The Chair of the International MHNR Conference previews the 24th Annual Event: Place, Purpose and Politics: Reimagining Mental Health Care Hosted on A...

Alan Cohen

12 Sep 2018

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The recently retired GP and Chair of the Clinical Advisory Group for Equally Well UK explains why physical health is such a big issue for people livin...

Kevin James

11 Sep 2018

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Kevin James, a Lived Experience Consultant from Norwich shares his own story of living with severe mental illness and trying to remain physically and ...

Sam Allen

11 Sep 2018

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Samantha Allen, Chief Executive at the Sussex Partnership NHS Trust explains what they do to ensure that people living with mental illness get the phy...

Maria Barquin

07 Sep 2018

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Clinical Psychologist and Clinical Supervisor at IESO Digital Health talks about the evidence base for psychological interventions online. Hosted on A...

Philippa Weitz

07 Sep 2018

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Pip Weitz, R&D Director from the Association for Counselling and Therapy Online talks abouther vision for digital technology and clinical psychology....

Julian Childs

07 Sep 2018

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The Head of Digital Development & Evaluation at the Anna Freud Centre, and Associate Professor at UCL, tells us about his digital mental health work w...

Helen Pote and Alesia Moulton-Perkins

07 Sep 2018

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Listen to the organisers of the "The Future is Digital: Is Clinical Psychology Ready for Digital Practice?" conference Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/...

Introduction

06 Sep 2018

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André from the Mental Elf introduces The Future is Digital - Is Clinical Psychology Ready? A BPS-DCP event taking place in London on Friday 7th Septe...

Tim Dalgleish & Melissa Black

05 Sep 2018

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A preview of the 2018 Conference on Transdiagnostic Approaches to Psychological Disorders, taking place in Cambridge on 17-18 September. Hosted on Aca...

Linda Nazarko

30 Aug 2018

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The Nurse Consultant in Physical Healthcare from the West London Mental Heath NHS Trust tells us what she is doing to ensure that people living with m...

Peter Byrne

30 Aug 2018

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NHS Psychiatrist Peter Byrne talks about smoking and mental illness: "The largest preventable part of the 17 years of life lost is due to smoking, and...

Lucy Schonegevel & Hannah Lewis

30 Aug 2018

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Rethink Head of Health Influencing (Lucy) and Senior Policy and Practice Officer (Hannah) talk to us about the new Equally Well UK collaborative. Host...

Andy Bell

24 Aug 2018

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Deputy Chief Executive from Centre for Mental Health tells us about the new #EquallyWellUK collaborative that is launching in the UK on 13th Septembe...

Sonia Johnson - Mental Health PRU

03 Aug 2018

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Professor Sonia Johnson talks about the new NIHR Mental Health Policy Research Unit Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Robin Murray

03 Aug 2018

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Professor Sir Robin Murray previews his keynote talk at the Mental Health Nursing Research conference in Manchester on Friday 14th September 2018. Hos...

Sonia Johnson - CORE RCT

02 Aug 2018

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Professor Sonia Johnson talks about her new RCT published in The Lancet, which shows that support from people with lived experience reduces readmissio...

Tamsin Ford and Neil Humphrey - STARS trial

17 Jul 2018

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Professor Tamsin Ford from Exeter Medical School and Professor Neil Humphrey from the Manchester Institute of Education talk about the STARS trial of ...

Emily Herbert and Iram Shah from The Retreat in York

10 Jul 2018

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Emily Herbert and Iram Shah from The Retreat in York by The Mental Elf Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Sarah Williams and Daniel Meron

10 Jul 2018

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Two of the people behind the Solent NHS Research and Improvement conference talk to Mark and André in our #BeyondTheRoom team as the event draws to a...

Side By Side - Patient Ambassadors changing things

10 Jul 2018

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An interview with members of Side by Side, the patient ambassador group responsible for changing the course of Solent NHS Trust's approach to patient ...

Clare Ryan on qualitative research and it being about what patients say is important

10 Jul 2018

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Clare Ryan (@clareryan99) is a Clinical Physiotherapy Specialist (spines) in the Musculoskeletal Service @SolentNHSTrust. Her presentation at #solentc...