Victoria Pile

Having a fantastic time at #EABCT2025 - a full house for our symposium on cyclical relationships and cognitive mechanisms during the perimenstrual and prenatal periods! Thank you to our audience for the wonderful enthusiasm and questions 🪇 @kingsioppn.bsky.social @babcpevents.bsky.social

Huge congratulations Becca!

In-Congress Workshops In-Congress Workshops In-congress workshops are half-day workshops and will take place during the main congress, on Thursday 4th, Friday 5th  and Saturday 6th September 2025. Registration f...

Registration is now open for the in-congress workshops at #EABCT2025 in Glasgow this September!

Just £30 for a half-day workshop from world-leading presenters on some of the hottest topics in CBT - check out the listing and register while there's space!

eabct2025.org/in-congress-...

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Head of School of Psychology at University of Birmingham Apply for the Head of School of Psychology role on jobs.ac.uk, the top job board for academic positions in higher education. View details and apply now.

www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DNS973/h... We're recruiting for a new Head of School for Psychology @unibirmingham.bsky.social - please do get in touch if of interest.

Wow, this is a classic.

Here, Becca used photo-elicitation to understand images of the self in YP with depression - really fascinating study. I loved learning more about how young people conceptualise their mental imagery using photos, what is distressing and the link with emotion.

Repeating image of mask half blue with sad expression, half yellow with happy expression on black background. Text: Voices of Experience: Breaking mental health stigma. Fri 16 May, 18:00 - 20:00, Peckham Levels. King's College London and NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre logos in top left.

Join us & @nihrmaudsleybrc.bsky.social at Peckham Levels
on Fri 16 May for a special #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek evening of powerful stories, poetry & artwork exploring lived experience of #MentalHealth, diagnosis, stigma & more.

🎟Free event, register on Eventbrite👉 eventbrite.co.uk/e/voices-of-...

And don't forget, Colin Espie will be giving not only a keynote but also pre-conference workshop on CBT for Insomnia at #EABCT2025 in Glasgow this September - book a place in the workshop while you can!

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🌟 Exciting News! Our study on our method of Gillick Competence assessment in online, anonymous surveys is published! Empowering 13-15-year-olds to self-consent could overcome barriers to low risk, impactful mental health intervention research. Learn more: bmjopen.bmj.com/content/15/3...

What do parents need to know about where UK teens look for mental health information and support online - our team just wrote a blog on this www.wellatschool.org?view=article

Guidelines for involving young people with lived experience in suicide research - National Elf Service Dhea Bendargi summarises a Delphi study that involved lived experience and researcher stakeholders in developing a comprehensive set of guidelines for involving youth with lived and living experience ...

Guidelines for involving young people with lived experience in suicide research www.nationalelfservice.net?p=213158

#Suicide #SuicideResearch #LivedExperience #YoungPeople #YouthMentalHealth #Involvement #Coproduction #Guidelines

JOINT US!! BABCP Spring conference is back! April 8th and 9th, Kings College London (Waterloo Campus): Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Associate Prof Janet Feigenbaum (UCL) on DBT, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness & Dr Mary Welford on CFT: babcp.com/Spring-Confere…

Please retweet: @babcpjournals.bsky.social Spring Conference In Person 8th-9th April, London. Keynotes: Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Associate Prof Janet Feigenbaum (UCL) on DBT, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness & Dr Mary Welford on Compassion:Info👇 babcp.com/Spring-Confe...

Delighted to share our latest study in @jmirpub.bsky.social - rct of a single session self help digital intervention in UK Uni Students.Thanks to my incredible team, incl @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social @victoriapile.bsky.social et al
www.jmir.org/2025/1/e58164
#DigitalMentalHealth #MentalHealthResearch

Opportunity to come and do a funded PhD with us on low mood in boys @uniofeastanglia.bsky.social with @joniholmes.bsky.social @victoriapile.bsky.social applications due 24th Feb www.senss.ac.uk/collaborativ...

Adopting an inclusive approach to patient and public involvement that incorporates the voices of young children is essential for advancing the field and addressing the multifaceted challenges associated with mental health in this vulnerable population acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/...

Definitely! I think it could be really helpful.

In 2025, we're running two fully-funded Writing Retreats for #mentalhealth #researchers. Express your interest using the link below👇

mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/writing-retr...

To prep, we'll be sharing our series of top tips from the last retreat - keep your eyes peeled 👀

One could say that the research field on prevention of depression is stuck. Interested in this field and in solutions how to continue? Read my new open access paper in Current Directions in Psychological Science
doi.org/10.1177/0963...

Please retweet: @BABCP In Person Spring Conference is back! 8th-9th April, KCL, London. “New Generation CBT:Broadening Perspectives by attending to process”. Workshops+keynotes: Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness, more exciting speakers to follow!

[Figure 2 from the publication]: shows a network diagram of 18 different types of mental health support young people report accessing in the last year, alongside perceived helpfulness.

*Networks of care for the modern adolescent* 🫶🌻

In our new paper, we combine a #network approach + applied research lens to explore where #youngpeople are accessing #mentalhealth support & how helpful they find it.

w/ Simon R White & @minafazeloxford.bsky.social

www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

Radical rethink of mental health support for adolescents needed – new study Young people have given important insights into what mental health support they prefer and what does not work for them or meet their needs, as part of a major new study of thousands of adolescents.

New @oxwell.bsky.social study out today puts the #youthvoice centre stage in understanding the availability, accessibility & acceptability of #mentalhealth support in the UK.

PRESS RELEASE ➡️ www.psych.ox.ac.uk/news/radical...

ARTICLE ➡️ www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

📢 Our lab's latest, out today in JAMA Pediatrics: "State Parental Consent Law and Treatment Use Among Adolescents With Depression" jamanetwork.com/journals/jam...

TL;DR Teens with depression living in states that require parent consent for mental health treatment may be less likely to access care 🧵

NYAS Publications This systematic review synthesizes longitudinal studies on risk and protective factors for loneliness in youth under 25 years old. From 398 articles 105 met inclusion criteria, consistently identifyi....

🚨 hot off the press 🚨our new review exploring longitudinal #risk and #protective factors for #loneliness in youth, led by the amazing @bueckersusanne.bsky.social

nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interested in mental health/young people's mental health? We have got post doc jobs out to advert now! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... - this is part of the NIHR award to Bath, and the post doc opportunities are very exciting. Working potentially across work packages and getting training too!