Dr Abby Dunn

Make inpatient mental health hospitals places where family connection is supported.
We are working with working with parents, children and young people, carers and healthcare professionals to develop new family visit rooms. Share your experieces.
@sane.org.uk @mmhalliance.bsky.social

📢 Help us improve family rooms in mental health hospitals

We want to find out about parents, children, carers, and healthcare professionals experiences of family visits to mental health inpatient units — and we’d really love to hear from you.
👉 find out more at inpatientfamilies.org.uk

Come to our celebration of women writers over 50! forthwrite.uk/forthwrite-f...

Today begins the @nihr.bsky.social grant to improve inpatient facilities for parents who are hospitalised and their families. Very excited to colllaborate with @profsamch.bsky.social, Dr Eleanor Ratcliffe, Chloe Elsby-Pearson and Mark Oliver @researchspft.bsky.social @surreypsychology.bsky.social

Looking forward to joining @profsamch.bsky.social to talk about preventing intergenerational transmission of mental illness later at @rcpsych.bsky.social conference 2025

Prevention of mental illness in children of parents with depression

Prevention of mental illness in children of parents with depression

10-min talk from Belinda Platt describing evidence-based interventions to prevent youth mental illness with a focus on an family-and group-based intervention.

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#ACMHlearn

Very much looking forward to being part of the Carers Week webinar today. Talking about the identification (or lack of it) of parents and their children by adult mental health services. @carers-uk.bsky.social @carers-week.bsky.social

Thanks for sharing our work - the CI was @profsamch.bsky.social.

Question: How do researchers who are investigating parenting (from any angle) ensure that fathers are involved?

Very excited to join this brilliant event. The curators have pulled together a fantastic programme in Crawley and Brighton.

Looking forward to meeting everyone at this lunchtime session today.

Great article! Now beavers are stars of @prospectmagazine.co.uk and @allaboutthearchers.bsky.social they are encroaching on capybara www.newyorker.com/magazine/202...

Never too early to start planning.

#PhD #IPV #postpartum #mental #illness - but move quickly, closes. 14 Feb 25

PCPH @bsmspcph.bsky.social
Our seminar this month is presented by Dr Abby Dunn @abbydunn.bsky.social . Please come along to Watson, 301 - all are welcome. Contact primarycareda@bsms.ac.uk for further information.

Really useful

‘I can’t sleep, I’m terrified’: the rise in mothers having their babies taken away within days of giving birth in England Charity finds ‘inhumane’ system is forcing women to defend themselves in court, sometimes from their hospital beds, while in fear of having their newborn child taken from them

Rising rates of post-natal child removal are not a consequence of greater numbers of women with at-risk babies. As a society we should be working harder to prevent this
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Parental mental health biggest cause of child protection referrals in England Public service cuts and ‘stark impact of poverty’ are causing worse outcomes for children, according to survey

Could it be any starker than this
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Writing week. Any academics out there will know why it's almost holiday vibes here. @academic-chatter.bsky.social

Very pleased to have this piece of work out in the world! We know that hospitalisation is difficult for parents and their families. Even small actions can support parent-child connection when a parent is being treated as an inpatient. @surreypsychology.bsky.social