School-Based Emotional Burden and Mental Health in Autism and ADHD RE-STAR findings on school-based emotional burden in autistic and ADHD students, what helps during distress, and links to mental health.

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School-Based Emotional Burden and Its Relationship with Mental Health in Autistic and ADHD Students

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Dr Georgia Pavlopoulou, UCL
Dr Steve Lukito, King's

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Florence Nightingale, facing front, standing with owl, Athena. F. Holl after a sketch by N. Parthenope, afterwards Lady Verney, her sister. Photo from the Wellcome Collection. http://catalogue.wellcomelibrary.org/record=b1171058

In the fourth of our series on London's renowned epidemiologists & defining public health moments, we turn to someone who proved that data - when communicated well - can change policy: Florence Nightingale, the founder of modern nursing.

Yesterday, 31st March, we had a great centre seminar delivered by Kath Evans, Direct of Children's Nursing, Barts Health, on integration in healthcare through relationships, participation & advocacy, focussing on care experienced young people. Wonderful work, with a real role for research too

Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry Original Article · Open Access

📄 In #JCPP: Adolescence under fire: a multi‐method study of psychological vulnerability and resilience among adolescents impacted by war
👉 https://doi.org/10.1111/jcpp.70052
#MentalHealthResearch #Anxiety #PTSD

The 2025 Behaviour Change Conference Organising Committee and Volunteers stood at the front of the room, listening to Dr Marta Marques close the conference. The screen behind shows 'stay tuned - there's more next year!'.

A huge thank you from the entire Organising Committee to everyone who’s booked their place at #BCConf2026, we’ve had a fantastic response so far! Haven’t registered yet? Today is the final day to secure Early Bird rates - don’t miss out!
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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Children growing up in low-resource settings are at greater risk for lifelong psychiatric problems. They are both more likely to have risk factors for early psychopathology and to be less...

Harnessing personal and social resources in managing internalising and externalising symptoms in children living in low‐resource settings - Michalek - JCPP Advances - Wiley Online Library pls share! acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

We had a great centre meeting yesterday where we had a series of short talks from colleagues across the Centre to mark Social Prescribing Day from the centre Social Prescribing Special Interest Group led by Dr Abi Woodward - thanks to all who joined us.

What should be included in a digital mental health intervention, based on solution-focused therapy, for young people who self-harm? A qualitative exploration of young people and clinicians’ views Author summary There are lots of digital mental health interventions available but very few are developed and tested thoroughly. Additionally, many existing digital interventions are not used consiste...

New paper - a report of the first study to explore the application of solution focussed therapy to a novel digital intervention, and the first to explore its acceptability with young people who self-harm - please do share! journals.plos.org/digitalhealt...
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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library Background Children growing up in low-resource settings are at greater risk for lifelong psychiatric problems. They are both more likely to have risk factors for early psychopathology and to be less...

A new paper highlights the importance of harnessing both internal strengths & positive social resources when thinking about intervention programmes for symptoms of emotional disorders in children growing up in deprived areas - online today! Pls share - acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Francois moved on to conduct a monitoring visit in Hanoi this week. He conducted file reviews, looking at all the consent and assent forms, and checking a selection of the data forms against the data in REDCap. It is a great opportunity for the team to review what can be done to improve quality.

Other midway observation, 2 outdoor/1 indoor in SR, smooth, productive, fruitful sessions. Teachers were very cooperative, confident and students were very engaged, enthusiastic. A very promising program in school and impactful @m-bright-study.bsky.social

First trip of the first mid-way observation, 28 February 2026 was through indoor/outdoor sessions. Student was active and engaged, while intervention teams were cooperative, confident, and covered nearly all planned content. Students found that MHL was very important in @m-bright-study.bsky.social

🍽️ About 1 in 4 children in the ALSPAC cohort experienced food insecurity in early childhood.

Even when it resolved by age 5, elevated risk of binge eating and compensatory behaviours remained in adolescence.

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#FoodInsecurity #EatingDisorders #ChildHealth

This week the monitoring visit moves to Hanoi. Some pictures from Hanoi, including mottos on the files that are giving us joy!

The importance of friendship in early intervention for people with an experience of psychosis This article describes the findings of a research project exploring the importance of friendship for people with an experience of first-episode psychosis. Data collection methods included analysis ...

New article out open access on friendship and early intervention for people with an experience of psychosis - written with a wonderful student and pratice colleagues - pls share www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Exciting news! The @yorkpsychology.bsky.social are recruiting 3 new ART (research and teaching) lecturers! One role will be prioritised for cognitive, affective and/or social neuroscience.

#neuroskyence #cognition #psychscisky #neurojobs

Day of Co-Creation Join us to celebrate creative and participatory research practices. Join for one event, or for the whole day! Co-badged with The School of Scottish Studies Archives, Poverty Truth Community, Outwith a...

I'll be in Edinburgh with @thebinkshub.bsky.social on 2nd April for a Day of Co-Creation, celebrating creative & participatory research practices.

Creative writing + zine workshops, & the book launch of A Field Guide to Artist-Researcher Collaborations - join us!
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Prenatal tests are so important!

📸 Ultrasound – See your baby’s growth!
🩸 Blood & urine tests – Check for infections & anaemia
🔬 Blood pressure & glucose screening – Prevent complications
🤰🏾 Regular baby monitoring – Ensure a safe delivery

Great to see that Francois is halfway through his mounting visit to Phnom Penh and Hanoi. Always great to spend time with the country teams working on improving procedures, documentation and processes.

Monitoring visits can feel a bit daunting for teams, but hopefully this week with Francois has been a great opportunity to learn about research processes and procedures and to tighten these up for the country teams. Francois certainly enjoyed his time in Phnom Penh. Hanoi next!

Some welcome rain on the penultimate day of Francois’s monitoring visit to The Royal University of Phnom Penh. A few pictures from enchanting Cambodia!

Francois has travelled to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, for a monitoring visit. Read about this and all our other news on the M-BRIGHT website: www.qmul.ac.uk/wiph/centres...

Great to see a paper on the work that was done prior to the M-BRIGHT study - Promoting adolescent mental health in Tanzania and Vietnam through a co-created universal school-based initiative: Findings from a mixed method study.

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@qmul.bsky.social @bartscharity.bsky.social Doctoral Training Programme - five fully funded 4 year PhD Studentships in Biomedical Research. Closing date for applications: Monday March 16th 2026 Please share - more info here: www.findaphd.com/phds/program...

Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness? It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allows

I'm in the Guardian today, writing about the question of overdiagnosis of mental illness. I argue we need to stop seeing this as a binary yes/no question - is overdiagnosis happening or is the increase real? - and acknowledge that multiple things can be happening at once

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It's Climate Action week at Queen Mary 🌱 Staff, students, friends & neighbours are invited to join us at 13 events taking place on campus and locally. With hands-on activities, talks and more, check out our full event schedule: buff.ly/JrodPdc

Abstract submissions have now closed, but there's still time to sign up for this free #healtheconomics conference on Friday, 20th March. Find out more:

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Phonics to help kids read Using research to boost reading skills.

Many people across the UK struggle to see how research affects their daily lives.

That's why we're sharing stories that are making a huge difference - to spread the word that R&I is improving lives and livelihoods.

Read our first one, here: www.ukri.org/news-and-eve...

Very much looking forward to this conference, to be hosted at @qmul.bsky.social The Octagon is a great venue, that we're sure will be a hit with attendees. Do read more, share and submit your abstract:
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Just enough time to get your abstracts in for this conference hosted at @qmul.bsky.social