Thanks so much ASPIRE (Australian Social Prescribing Institute of Research and Education) for allowing me to share my keynote reflections on youth social prescribing: learning from the UK on practice and research
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25.11.2025 04:04 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Youth mental health difficulties have increased in prevalence (rather than better awareness) and key drivers likely include economic precarity, smartphone use, sleep quality and closure of youth services. An excellent piece of research led by @olademk.bsky.social
16.07.2025 08:21 — 👍 11 🔁 4 💬 2 📌 0
Understanding young people’s declining mental health - Youth Futures Foundation
Exploring drivers of worsening mental health among 14-24 year olds through a first-of-its-kind study for England
Very important report out today from the Youth Futures Foundation exploring factors accounting for escalating mental health problems in young people. Lead by fantastic colleagues from the University of Manchester (@olademk.bsky.social et al). Report here: youthfuturesfoundation.org/what-we-do/f...
15.07.2025 10:54 — 👍 11 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 1
First plenary: Tom Osborne: Accessible, community-based youth mental health at scale: what can Africa teach us?
29.06.2025 12:28 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Kicking off #ESCAP with some jazz
29.06.2025 11:10 — 👍 4 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
a cartoon of a pikachu with its mouth open and the words `` yay '' written on it .
ALT: a cartoon of a pikachu with its mouth open and the words `` yay '' written on it .
After a long and quite traumatic train journey, have just arrived in #Strasbourg for the #ESCAP conference. Looking forward to some interesting talks #child and on #youth #mentalhealth, catching up with colleagues and some great French food and wine in a stunning location
28.06.2025 19:48 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Excited to announce that I have been appointed to Principal Research Fellow within @ucl-sbb.bsky.social. It’s an honor to work at such a great university with wonderful colleagues and a fantastic team. Very much looking forward to all the new social prescribing work we have planned.
26.06.2025 16:39 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Anyway I look forward to hearing about your further work on this over the coming months. Respectfully. Dan
02.06.2025 17:55 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I wouldn’t wasn’t to overly speculate if they were or not, but some may fall outside this benchmark as some of the assessment criteria are outside of the deign and researchers control.
02.06.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
I probably would urge a little caution on the subsequent ‘high quality’ studies point post review, we didn’t quality assess them as they weren’t included and the bar was very high/cautious...
02.06.2025 17:54 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Hi Lucy, thanks for your comments and was really interesting hearing the debate this morning. I agree it is a shame to not have included some of the more recent research, but unfortunately the nature of reviews are they are always have a cut off and need time to be reviewed and published 🧵
02.06.2025 17:53 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
@jess-deighton.bsky.social @neilhumphrey.bsky.social @corc-annafreud.bsky.social @umartoseeb.bsky.social @emredeniz.bsky.social @jgas.bsky.social @emmaashworth.bsky.social @pravpatalay.bsky.social @ucl-sbb.bsky.social @ucl.ac.uk
02.06.2025 06:38 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
This suggests we should pay careful attention to what is being implemented.
Additionally, it’s also important to remember the impact of these interventions alone is often small, and should be part of a wider, whole-school approach to mental health and wellbeing.
02.06.2025 06:31 — 👍 9 🔁 1 💬 3 📌 0
Not all interventions are equal. Our analysis found that CBT-informed sessions, where young people learn to understand their thoughts and behaviours, as well as how to manage them, were significantly more effective at reducing anxiety symptoms than mindfulness-based classes…
As such….
02.06.2025 06:27 — 👍 7 🔁 1 💬 1 📌 0
Our findings, based on the most up-to-date evidence, show that whole-class sessions can work in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety. Although the effect is small on average for individuals, such small effects can be impactful once scaled up at a population level.
Importantly…
02.06.2025 06:26 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
It’s great to see this finally out - our viewpoint and learning from implementing #socialprescribing in the #US
25.04.2025 19:20 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
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27.03.2025 07:45 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
What is the impact of youth sector proviso n on mental health? Check out our latest report commissioned by NCST
tinyurl.com/uhxmuu32
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25.03.2025 16:31 — 👍 1 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Very excited to be developin best practice guidelines for #child and #youth #socialprescribing as part of this work
19.03.2025 10:00 — 👍 2 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
A blue square features the Social Prescribing Day logo, alongside a large number 7, indicating there are only seven days to go. Scattered around the image edges are colourful illustrations of trees and people enjoying all kinds of activities such as painting, running and playing music. The hashtag #SocialPrescribingDay appears at the bottom.
Only one week until #SocialPrescribingDay! 📅
We'll be taking the opportunity to share some exciting updates 👀
Keep an eye on our socials & join the Social Prescribing Youth Network mailing list to be the first to know: sbbresearch.org/spyn/
12.03.2025 15:06 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
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).
We are looking for a #researchfellow / #trialmanager to come and work with us at @ucl-sbb.bsky.social on 2 exciting #socialprescribing #trials in #CAMHS and #schools
Link for further information here: shorturl.at/RFcdv
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28.02.2025 15:25 — 👍 2 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 1
Really great work - looking forward to read in more detail
09.01.2025 03:37 — 👍 1 🔁 0 💬 1 📌 0
Over the moon that I have been selected as one of the recipients for a @medresfdn.bsky.social launchpad grant - where I will be testing #socialprescribing as part of #CAMHS treatment to help take a holistic approach to be tackling #youthmentalhealth @ucl-sbb.bsky.social
06.01.2025 16:12 — 👍 14 🔁 3 💬 1 📌 0
New resource alert!
Teaching #SocialPrescribing: An Educator’s Guide, based on my course “Social Prescribing in the City"
Available here: bit.ly/3VFnz3O
19.12.2024 13:53 — 👍 8 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
Home - SBRG
Hello Bluesky 👋
We’re the Social Biobehavioural Research Group, a WHO Collaborating Centre for Arts and Health at UCL.
We investigate how social connections & behaviours impact people’s health by conducting cutting-edge, cross disciplinary research.
Learn more about us 👇
sbbresearch.org
13.12.2024 11:58 — 👍 14 🔁 5 💬 0 📌 0
We are the Evidence Based Practice Unit for youth mental health research and innovation. The unit is a partnership between @uclbrainscience.bsky.social and @annafreudcharity.bsky.social
Research Clinical Psychologist @Oxford Health & Uni of Oxford
A&E Clinical Psychologist [University of Oxford, Oxford Health NHS FT] • PhD & Hon. Research Fellow [University of Glasgow] • netECR Co-founder (netecr.org) • Suicide, self-harm, attachment, scientist-practitioner model. Views are my own.
Open-access peer-reviewed journal publishing articles that advance services for children, young people and families. Free to read, no author fees.
Published by @cfecfw.bsky.social.
www.childrenaustralia.org.au
Social Prescribing to promote and improve access to health and care services for people in vulnerable situations in Europe
Husband. Father to 3 goons. Consultant Paediatrician with critical care & mental health special interest. CYP MH advisor to Devon ICB. Clinical Co-Lead for South West Paediatric Mental Health Network. Maintaining a precarious relationship with coffee.
Retired CEO, SAPHNA.
Striving to promote, prevent and protect the health and wellbeing of children through the provision of an adequately resourced expert school nursing workforce.
Contact via https://sharonwhite.co
RN, PhD Epidemiologist focusing on youth co-occurring substance use & mental health concerns @ McMaster School of Nursing & Peter Boris Centre for Addictions Research. #CIHR_ImpactECR www.jillianhalladay.com
Clinical psychologist | Cognitive and developmental researcher | Prof. of Psychology #UCLM | Passionate about art, good books and cheese | Spain 🇪🇦
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📍 Postdoc @ CRESS, Université Paris Cité
Clinical Epidemiology | Youth Mental Health
Person-Centred Care | Measurement Science
Retired Professor Child Mental Health: Uni of York & HYMS Med School, NHS Deaf Child service, NHS CAMHS, COMIC child oriented innovative research. Interested in developing child friendly interventions. Husband, dad, grandad. Enthusiast for kindness & fun.
Associate Professor | Harvard Medical School
Co-Director | Center for Depression, Anxiety, & Stress Research
Director | Treatment & Etiology of Depression in Youth Lab | McLean Hospital | www.WebbsLab.com
McGill & UPenn alum | Canadian in Boston
NHS manager, nurse & social worker: works in children's & young people's mental health, 14-25, transition to adulthood, SEND, biopsychosocial, collaboration, innovation. Interested in what works... Views my own
We conduct research on topics that matter to neurodivergent people and their allies, through working in collaboration with #autistic and #adhd people with or without learning disabilities and syndromes. Our group is based at UCL's Brain Sciences.
#YouthInvolvement at The McPin Foundation, Young People's Network 🥳 Lived experience perspective, views my own.
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Professor of Psychology @Yale studying brain development, stress, and mental health in childhood and adolescence 🧠
http://candlab.yale.edu/
NIHR ARC Wessex Research Fellow at the University of Southampton (UK) | Interested in intervention and prevention targets for young people mental illness and mental health care provision
Paediatrician on verge of CCT (aug 2025). Works for NHS & Association for Young People's Health. Special interest - young people's health; advocacy; data translation; communication; participation; integrated mental and physical health; health inequalities
Assistant professor | School psychologist | Nature enthusiast. I study #SchoolMentalHealth and work to improve mental health equity through early identification, wellness promotion, and #ImpSci. Views are my own.
