UCL – University College London UCL is consistently ranked as one of the top ten universities in the world (QS World University Rankings 2010-2022) and is No.2 in the UK for research power (Research Excellence Framework 2021).

⏰Post-doctoral #qualitative job alert! (closes 14/9/25).
@uclpsychiatry.bsky.social is recruiting for a #Qualitative Post‑Doctoral Research Associate to join our #suicide & #selfharm research team on a @nihr.bsky.social grant investigating acceptability of close obs www.ucl.ac.uk/work-at-ucl/...

✐ Can classroom mental health lessons actually harm some students?

This new scoping review looked at CBT & mindfulness-based school interventions and found troubling signs of harm in some cases.

#Schools #YouthMentalHealth #CBT #Mindfulness #UniversalInterventions

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🧠🏫 AWARE and INSPIRE?
School mental health trials show mixed results and unexpected harms.

The Education for Wellbeing programme tested universal mental health approaches with 30k+ pupils.

Some benefits, but also unexpected harms, especially for vulnerable students.

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Interesting preprint (and constructive criticism about it too). There will be plenty watching this space over the coming years

A balanced take, amid a lot of polarisation 👇

Drowning Doesn’t Look Like Drowning Drowning is not the violent, splashing call for help that most people expect.

Thanks for the reminder @janemunday.bsky.social. Every summer, I repost this article DROWNING DOES NOT LOOK LIKE DROWNING. To date, I know of FOUR kids who were saved after someone who'd clicked on the link learnt how to spot actual drowning. Take time to read and pass on.

slate.com/technology/2...

Frontiers | Universal, school-based, interventions to improve emotional outcomes in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis IntroductionThere is debate into the impact of universal, school-based interventions to improve emotional outcomes. Previous reviews have only focused on anx...

For those interested in universal MH interventions in schools, there’s a new meta analysis out today by Hayes et al and I wanted to highlight a few points

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www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi...

Brilliant thread and replies here about how difficult it is to get messages across that contradict people's own views/biases. This resonates with my own experiences with practitioners and policy makers as well as general public. Referenced Guardian article here www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Important new research - our Nav Kapur is one of the co-authors. The first UK study suggesting a recent fall in self-harm in young people.
mentalhealth.bmj.com/content/28/1...

This is really important: if you want to disseminate information beyond academia, you really need to be creating very short, very engaging posts – ideally videos – for Instagram and TikTok.

I have spend the last 4 months figuring out how to do this, and...

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2) Attitudes towards and experience of clinical & non-clinical services among people who self-harm

3)Working towards a definition & classification of harm minimisation for self-harm

#IASPVIENNA2025 @uclpsychiatry.bsky.social @uclbrainscience.bsky.social

I'm excited to be attending this year's IASP in Vienna and presenting our work on

1) Conceptualising #selfharm as an #addictive behaviour

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