This #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we’re highlighting the importance of accessible, evidence-based support for autistic children 🔍
STAR-CAT is exploring whether an online, parent-led approach can improve outcomes for autistic children with anxiety problems 🖥️
Learn more ➡️ osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat/
We're excited to have reached our first big recruitment milestone - over 100 families are now part of the STAR-CAT study! Fantastic work from all of our clinical teams 🤩
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Happy Holidays from the STAR-CAT team!
As the year comes to an end, we want to say a big thank you to all of the families and clinical services who have been involved in the study so far! 🌟
We hope everyone has a relaxing break over the festive period 🎄⛄
Today is #WorldMentalHealthDay and the STAR-CAT research team are wearing yellow in support of Young Mind's #HelloYellow campaign ✨ 💛
Cathy delivering a keynote talk at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies conference in Glasgow
Emily presenting a secondary analysis of OSI data from the OSI-GROWS project (osiresearch.org.uk/osi-grows) at the European Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Therapies conference in Glasgow
Lucy presenting a poster from the iCATS study (osiresearch.org.uk/icats) at the 17th International Conference on Child and Adolescent Psychopathology in Roehampton
It's been a busy few weeks for the STAR-CAT team, presenting OSI research at various conferences! Here's Chief Investigator @cathycreswell.bsky.social and Trial Coordinator @emilykwhitaker.bsky.social speaking at #EABCT2025 and Senior Trial Manager @lucyannataylor.bsky.social at ICCAP ⭐
It's not too late to register for our upcoming webinar exploring the power of mixed methods in #mentalhealth #research.
Featuring insights from a newly published BMJ Mental Health paper by ECRs & a panel of expert voices across the research landscape!👇
mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/advancingmix...
Definitely worth watching this fantastic video to hear more about the brilliant WISDOM school's mental health research network ⬇️⬇️⬇️
@cathycreswell.bsky.social and Chloe are delighted to be in Chile this week - working with friends and colleagues to help increase access to effective treatments for child mental health problems
Very exciting to see OSI making its way to South America! 🌎
Our Chief Investigator @cathycreswell.bsky.social is in Chile this week, delivering OSI training to Chilean health workers!
It's #Red4Research day - a day to recognise all those who participate in, support and deliver research! Here's the STAR-CAT team marking the occasion by wearing red. A big thank you to everyone involved in our study for making the research happen 😻 #Red4Research2025
It's been a busy week for the STAR-CAT team! We've been preparing packs of merchandise for our first few recruited families to welcome them into the study! 🛍️✨
Packing merchandise for our wonderful families !
We're very excited to finish off the week with our first family recruited to the STAR-CAT study! 🎉 🥳 Great work from one of our teams in Devon 🌟
Happy #InternationalClinicalTrialsDay 🎉
Here's our Trial Manager Kelsey with some merchandise from the STAR-CAT trial at @oxprimarycare.bsky.social's stall!
#ICTD2025 #CTD2025 #UKCTUNetwork @ukcrc-ctu.org.uk @topicgroup.bsky.social
The STAR-CAT research team are taking part in #WearItGreen day for #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 💚
In STAR-CAT we're evaluating an online, parent-led intervention for autistic children with anxiety problems 👨👩👧 🖥️
We're excited to announce that the trial is now open to recruitment! Welcome to our very first site, Cambridge Community Services NHS Trust 👋
Over the next two years we will be aiming to recruit 650 families - have a read of our website to find out more: osiresearch.org.uk/star-cat 👈
Congratulations to @amymccall.bsky.social for publishing her first paper from her PhD! This study investigates panic disorder in adolescents and what distinguishes it from other anxiety disorders at this age. 🎉
Check out the thread below for a summary of the findings & link for the paper 👇
Still buzzing from the @oxfordpsychiatry.bsky.social Away Day on Tues!
TOPIC presented two posters: our iCATS-i2i project & "Stakeholders’ views on an ‘identification-to-intervention' approach for child anxiety".
iCATS won the prize for best poster! Well done to both teams for their hard work! 🎉
Dr. Carolina Guzman Holst discusses her most recent paper in this episode of 'Psychology in the Classroom'. She explores the rising #mentalhealth issues among #youngpeople in schools, and the effects of universal interventions like #CBT.
Listen below🎧
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