In this #OpenAccess JCPP Advances paper, @dralexlloyd.bsky.social et al. identified profiles of socio-affective functioning in early adolescence and how these profiles are associated with transdiagnostic symptoms of mental health problems. https://bit.ly/4f3K4Zi

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Background Adolescence is a developmental period during which many mental health problems emerge or worsen. Recently, there has been a shift towards identifying risk factors that predict psychopatho...

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🚨New preprint🚨 Available here: osf.io/preprints/ps... Do adolescents who report feeling addicted to social media share a single behavioural-emotional profile? We analysed data from >7,000 UK adolescents and found, strikingly, that **47%** feel addicted to social media.

📢 New Research Assistant opportunity at UCL! I’m excited to share a new 18-month Research Assistant opportunity in the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at UCL to work on a new project exploring social media, decision-making, and adolescent mental health.

📢 New Research Assistant opportunity at UCL! I’m excited to share a new 18-month Research Assistant opportunity in the Department of Clinical, Educational and Health Psychology at UCL to work on a new project exploring social media, decision-making, and adolescent mental health.

🚨🚨JOB ALERT🚨🚨 I'm hiring a cogsci/philosophy/compneuro postdoc at @ucl.ac.uk @uclbrainscience.bsky.social @uclpals.bsky.social! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DRH486/p... Come to London & work on frameworks for "testing" for consciousness using Bayesian belief updating & latent variable modeling. Pls share!

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UKgov publishes new screen time guidance for under 5s 👨‍🍼 <2s: Avoid screens except shared activities 👶 2-5s: Try for less than 1hr a day 📱 Choose safe, slow-paced content 🧑‍🧒‍🧒 Lead by example 🛌 Have screen-free areas/times Glad to have contributed. Parent guidance and research report linked below.

Fantastic work by @ritikac.bsky.social on this important topic. See below for a summary of the scoping review 👇

Ritika C@ritikac.bsky.social · 5mo ago

Excited to share 1st study of my PhD now published: scoping review of candidate mechanisms for the neurocognitive social-transactional model - the idea that interpersonal trauma in childhood can change how we think/feel/act in relationships, which in turn could affect mental health. Links below 1/5

I'm in the Guardian today, writing about the question of overdiagnosis of mental illness. I argue we need to stop seeing this as a binary yes/no question - is overdiagnosis happening or is the increase real? - and acknowledge that multiple things can be happening at once tinyurl.com/yzsey97c

Are we really overdiagnosing mental illness?

It’s tempting to dismiss the proliferation of labels as a fad, but there’s more to this phenomenon than a simple culture-war reading allows

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We are recruiting! Postdoctoral research fellow at www.sdn-lab.org, studying the computational & neural basis of social decision-making. Birmingham is a fantastic & affordable place to live, with one of the youngest populations in Europe & over 600 parks. Please share! www.jobs.ac.uk/job/DQO275/p...

Postdoctoral Research Fellow in Social Decision Neuroscience at University of Birmingham

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February is LGBTQ+ History Month!🏳️‍🌈📣 We put together a short video to highlight some statistics surrounding LGBTQ+ mental health, experience with physical healthcare, and discrimination and hate experienced by the community.💔

Here is a little recap of our time at the #AMHDMshowcase conference! 📈 Such a pleasure to be a part of such a brilliant and inspiring room of people 👏 Thank you @events.ukri.org for putting on an amazing 2-day event. youtube.com/shorts/aB88p...

AMHDM Showcase Conference (Feburary 2026)

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Hello and welcome Day 1 of the #AMHDMshowcase is underway! Youth researcher Tegan sets the scene and introduces Gill Attrill OBE (Director at @ukri.org) & Prof Eamon McCrory (CEO of @annafreudcharity.bsky.social), former Directors of the Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind Programme

What does 'This is My Place' mean? 🏫 For Day 3 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we take the theme of 'This is My Place' and outline why schools are already a safe space for young people and how ReSET aligns with schools to support young people's mental health. Check it out below!

I’m thrilled to be starting as a Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Mental Health across the UCL-Anna Freud partnership. I’m grateful to be able to continue my research into identifying risk factors for mental health problems, as well as testing new interventions to prevent their onset and worsening.

In the ReSET Project we have taken a new approach to preventing mental health problems in adolescence. Read more about our school-based intervention in a new BOLD blog post co-authored with Laura Lucas

BOLD@boldinsights.bsky.social · 6mo ago

“Emotions and social relationships are closely interlinked, and the interaction between them can positively or negatively impact mental health.” Alex Lloyd & Laura Lucas share a new approach that teaches at-risk adolescents social and emotional skills and strategies. boldscience.org/can-teen-men...

📣 New Blog is live on @boldinsights.bsky.social ! @dralexlloyd.bsky.social and Laura Lucas discuss the promise of school-based interventions to preventing teen mental health issues. #schools #mentalhealth #adolescents #intervention #research boldscience.org/can-teen-men...

Can teen mental health problems be prevented in school?

A new approach teaches at-risk adolescents social and emotional skills and strategies

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I'm delighted to have received a junior faculty grant from The Huo Family Foundation to investigate mechanisms linking social media use to mental health outcomes in young people. huofamilyfoundation.org/news/updates...

Huo Family Foundation Awards $17.6M for Groundbreaking Research on the Impact of Digital Technology on Young People – Huo Family Foundation

The Huo Family Foundation is pleased to announce the award of 20 major multi-year research grants, totalling $17.6 million, through its inaugural Science Programme on the Effects of the Usage of Digit...

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🎙️ RESET Podcast Ep 2: Supporting Emotional Skills Why do adolescent brains experience emotions so intensely but struggle to regulate them? (Developmental mismatch: amygdala fully online, prefrontal regions still developing) #Neuroscience #SchoolMentalHealth @resetproject.bsky.social 🧵 THREAD

On your marks, get set...GROW! 🌱 Applications for our GROW 2026 Researcher Development Programme for #mentalhealth and #addiction early career researchers are now open. ‍💫 APPLY NOW 👇 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/grow/

Interested in how to deliver support for mental health in schools? Then this is the podcast for you! Hear from the experts about how we can best support young people’s wellbeing 🧠👥

The Mental Elf@thementalelf.bsky.social · 7mo ago

🎙️ RESET Podcast Episode 1 is live! Universal or targeted mental health interventions in schools? The evidence is clearer than you might think. Featuring Pasco Fearon, Lucy Foulkes, Roslyn Law, and school staff who've implemented these approaches. @resetproject.bsky.social 🧵 THREAD

Interested in applying to the next GROW and Peer Coaching (PeCo) programmes? ⏳ Hoping to attend one of our fully funded #WritingRetreats to develop your next paper or application? 🌳 Be the first to know when 2026 applications open: buff.ly/xQp8J4G

⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️ I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.

⚠️ Job Alert ⚠️ I'm recruiting a postdoc to work with me and Professor @jonroiser.bsky.social on an exciting new project examining the link between young people's decision-making on social media and their mental health.

Stellar work from @ritikac.bsky.social pulling together a huge amount of evidence for this review! Great to see this out ☺️

Ritika C@ritikac.bsky.social · 8mo ago

V excited to have 1st study from my PhD out as a preprint. We looked at whether interpersonal adversity in childhood is associated with changes in trust, mentalizing, agency and interpersonal emotion regulation and in turn, with mental health. All feedback much appreciated :) osf.io/preprints/ps...

Wondering what the conference looked like? Well, here it is! ✨ Hosted at Anna Freud for the day, the event delved into the ReSET Project and our results, as well as touching upon school-related topics such as developmental language disorder, social networks and bullying.

📣Exciting announcement below!📣Curious to know what we're all about? ReSET is a novel indicated preventative intervention to improve the mental health of UK adolescents, by teaching strategies to support emotion regulation and social relationships🥰 (See more...⬇️)

First up is Dr Alex Lloyd @dralexlloyd.bsky.social who is going to talk about The Development, Pilot and Feasibility Study of a Preventative, Transdiagnostic Intervention for Mental Health Problems in Adolescence: Building Resilience Through Socioemotional Training (ReSET) #ReSETMentalHealth

👋 Good morning everyone, and a very warm Mental Elf welcome to the @resetproject.bsky.social conference in London. You can follow along all day at 🌟 #ReSETMentalHealth 🌟 We are going to be talking about Relationships, Emotions & Adolescent Wellbeing. I'm André - hello! 🧵 THREAD

Looking for a PhD? Interested in cognitive computational neuroscience, motivation and decision-making? See our project listed in the BBSRC MIBTP competition for funding for a 4-year PhD in the @msnlab.bsky.social in the @thechbh.bsky.social. Deadline 27/11. More info: tinyurl.com/5d5vz8m7

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PhD Project - The computational and neural dynamics of human motivation and cognitive control at University of Birmingham, listed on FindAPhD.com

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New preprint from the @resetproject.bsky.social! Here we identify profiles of socio-affective functioning in adolescents at heightened risk for mental health problems 👇

PsyArXivBot@psyarxivbot.bsky.social · 10mo ago

Transdiagnostic Profiles of Socio-Affective Functioning in Adolescents At-Risk of Poor Mental Health: https://osf.io/839nr