Gavin Campbell

Our @combatstress.bsky.social Center for Applied Military Health Research poster on “translating evidence into real-world impact via knowledge mobilisation and clinical capacity building”. Presented at #ESTSS2025 (Tbilisi) and #VMHC2025 (London)

Mount Kazbek, Georgia

The clouds lifting briefly to reveal the stunning Mt Kazbek, was a perfect end to a long (and fascinating) day and a stunning visit to #Georgia.

Zhinvali Reservoir

After a wonderfully packed and stimulating #ESTSS2025, some time out of Tbilisi is a lovely change of pace

An absolutely fascinating presentation from Kristina Meyer from Charité on the overlaps of PTSD and psychosis, via perceptual changes… and seeing faces in noise patterns

#ESTSS2025

Really looking forward to attending #ESTSS2025 this week, and presenting our poster on translational and applied research to respond to and improve women veterans’ mental health.

We've got another brilliant UKPTS Bites coming up!

Prof Eric Vermetten (‪@unileiden.bsky.social‬)
"What's the added value of #psychedelics to #trauma #treatment?"

🗓️Friday 06 Jane 2025
🕤9.30am-10.00am (UK)
💻Free, online. Register/details: ukpts.org/bites

#ptsd #cptsd #psychology

Love this! Some of my fondest memories as an undergrad are from the Koestler Parapsychology Unit at Edinburgh Uni - creative, fascinating studies designed and conducted with enormous methodological rigour, with some of the fundamental aspects of being human at the very centre.

Looking forward to hearing from Dr Gail Theisen-Womersley (UNHCR) on
trauma and resilience among displaced populations, as part of this month’s free, online UKPTS Bites.

9 May, 12noon (UK)

UKPTS.org/bites

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We’re hugely excited about this on Friday morning….

UKPTS Bites is a series of short free online seminars. The next one is on Eyes in the Sky: drones, modern warfare and psychological wellbeing at 9am on Friday 14 March

Register now for our next FREE UKPTS Bites online seminar:

"Eyes in the Sky: drones, modern warfare and psychological wellbeing"

🗓️Friday 14 March 2025
🕘9am-9.30am (GMT)

ukpts.org/bites for info

#psychology #seminar #trauma #conflict

Superb #ukpts2025 conference from @ukpts.bsky.social in Leeds this week. Brilliant when, despite children & young people not being my particular area of focus, the speakers are genuinely inspiring and I leave with plenty of takeaways for my own work.

ENHANCE+ – Free training for those working with women veterans Free training for health professionals working with women veterans.

Our current work, is further translating and applying both our findings and those of others in the field, to promote some positive change through knowledge mobilisation, training and clinical capacity-building. All of which can be seen here: veterans.training

This resulted in focused, digestible considerations across policy, practice and research for improving access to support for women veterans, and in particular whose who have experienced MST

The other half of this project examined barriers/facilitators to mental health care for women veterans based on a qualitative analysis of the experiences of veterans with lived experience

doi.org/10.1177/0095...

Really enjoyed the first Bites session from @ukpts.bsky.social from @cathycreswell.bsky.social. As well as being fascinating, I took away a lot on how to create co-produced mental health interventions that may actually be ecologically useful ‘in the wild’ with respect to our ongoing work.

Evidence-based treatments for PTSD symptoms resulting from military sexual trauma in women Veterans: A systematic review | Journal of Military, Veteran and Family Health LAY SUMMARY Military sexual trauma (MST) includes experiences of sexual harassment and assault. It is widespread across militaries and disproportionately affects women. Posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) is one of the most frequent outcomes of experiencing MST. However, as Veterans can often respond differently from civilians to psychological treatments, this study aimed to review the literature that exists on treatment for PTSD resulting from MST specifically in women Veterans. Trauma-focused therapies were found to have the best quality evidence base, in particular, cognitive processing therapy (CPT). Emerging evidence was found for Trauma Center Trauma-Sensitive Yoga (TCTSY) to reduce PTSD symptoms. It should be noted trauma-focused therapies had the highest patient dropout rates, and the definition of MST was inconsistent across studies.

Pleased our review into treatments for PTSD in women veterans resulting from military sexual trauma is now out.

I’m aware a lot of great work is/has been conducted since our review ended a while back - all with improved support & treatment for those in need it at the core

doi.org/10.3138/jmvf...

I am on That Other Place, but personal ramblings (when I remember to update them) and details can be found on www.gavinmcampbell.com

Hello BlueSky. I’m Gav. I used to gallivant round the place making the news and other bits of telly.

Now I mentally gallivant round the place conducting translational and applied research into psychological trauma, interventions, and coping.

Go with the latter…..always.

The influence (or otherwise) of weather on mood and behaviour…