Fundamental changes to Scotland’s care system are needed say researchers, following a study of almost 500 young children in foster and kinship care led by @profminnis.bsky.social & @nspcc.bsky.social #FosterCare #ChildrensHearings #InfantMentalHealth gla.ac.uk/news/headlin...
Helen Minnis
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Academic child psychiatrist @UofGlasgow @GillbergCentre @LSHTM-alum. Loves a challenge! Complex interventions, neurodevelopment, trauma, stirring it
Exciting day for us - we're launching our study showing HUGE delays for children in foster care. Our paper is in Nature Medicine rdcu.be/ekep1 and a short animation www.youtube.com/watch?v=TwDu... @righttrial.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social @rachelhiller.bsky.social @nspcc.bsky.social
Infant mental health services for birth and foster families of maltreated pre-school children in foster care (BeST?): a cluster-randomized phase 3 clinical effectiveness trial
Nature Medicine - In a trial examining the effectiveness of an infant mental health service targeting birth and foster families of children aged 0–5 years, families were randomized to...
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Looking forward to kicking off the UCL Health of the Public Annual Symposium talking about the interplay between neurodivergence and childhood adversity @UCLHealthPublic.bsky.social @uofgshw.bsky.social
Heading out shortly for day 3 of Scotland's Whacking Weekender. So much joy. So much community. So much DANCE 🥰
Jill's research is always ahead of the curve 👏🏾
New UofG research finds brisk walking may reduce risk of heart rhythm abnormalities by up to 43%. The study led by UofG's School of Health & Wellbeing Professor Jill Pell has been published in the journal Heart. Read more ⬇️🫀
Impact of young people’s admissions to adult mental health wards… @nihrarcs.bsky.social @arc-em.bsky.social @nihr.bsky.social @rcpsych.bsky.social @cypmentalhealth.bsky.social www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Impact of young people’s admissions to adult mental health wards in England: national qualitative study | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core
Impact of young people’s admissions to adult mental health wards in England: national qualitative study - Volume 11 Issue 2
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New study in collaboration with @nihr.bsky.social highlights the challenges of under-18s admitted to adult mental health wards ▶️ www.psychiatry.cam.ac.uk/news/new-stu...
Some surprising NHS statistics (unless you follow me) Since 2019: - GP appoints increased by 5m to 31million/month - 111 calls total 1.7m/month - Ambulance calls and transfers unchanged 750k / month - A&E attendances 2.2million/month GPs providing more extra appts than total of all others combined
www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025... The US gets less safe by the minute. We shouldn't be surprised but this is incredible in the place formerly known as "land of the free"
US judge rules Mahmoud Khalil can be deported for his views
White House has claimed that Khalil’s ‘beliefs and associations’ are counter to US foreign policy interests
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I haven’t stopped singing this since I first heard it. And no, I don’t speak French😂
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#ddp #childtherapy #traumainformedcare #psyflix #mentalhealth… | Bram van der Boom
🧠 Free Psyflix Masterclass – April 10, 2025 | 8 PM GMT (9 PM CET) The Science of Psychological Therapy: The Case of DDP Join us for an inspiring masterclass exploring Dyadic Developmental Psychother...
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Such important work - an example of really making a difference 👏🏾
Delighted to share development of Scotland's national Distress Brief Intervention New way of responding to people in distress >82,000 people across Scotland have received DBI since its inception & currently being trialled in Australia & England. bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....
I've recently joined this Bluesky and seem to have landed in the US. Nothing against Americans but is there anyone from anywhere else in the world on this platform?
Hi all, finally got myself a bluesky account after months in the doldrums because of that Musky smell on twitter. I hear this is a much friendlier community:)