Dr Anne Marie O'Dwyer - Liaison psychiatrist, clinical professor at Trinity College Dublin and a great friend has spent years developing and providing psychological services for people with cancer. Her experience and wisdom is now distilled into 'The Cancer Guide' - recommend

Our Social Policy faculty wrote to @IrishTimesOpED & David McWilliams to challenge some misconceptions around the Irish welfare state. Learn more about Social Policy in Ireland #DN750 #CAO myucd.ie/courses/social… Karen Anderson Maria Pierce

Great to facilitate another #SAMAGH #simulation training in the assessment & management of patients after self-harm ASSERT Centre, UCC. w/ National Suicide Research Foundation & Prof Ella Arensman College of Psychiatrists of Ireland trainees & CNS hugely benefit from this experience HSE National Office for Suicide Prevention (NOSP) CPsychI Dean of Education Karen O Connor Sinead O’Brien

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To understand teenagers' mental health today, we should think less about what's new and more about how adolescence is – and always has been – a really challenging period of life Me today in the Guardian Link to online version: tinyurl.com/27d59hvs

Check out excellent systematic review by Jennifer Murphy reporting on levels of suPAR (a marker of inflammation) in people with psychiatric disorders now published in BrainBehavImm 👉 sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

I have wondered this, and am genuinely interested: are there academics in the adolescent/mental health/social media space that agree with Haidt's thesis (i.e. that social media + decline in play is the major cause of an international increase in adolescent MH probs)? /1

⁦listen back to ⁦Prof. Jim Lucey⁩ on ⁦Pat Kenny Newstalk⁩ ‘Acute mental healthcare today is where cancer care in Ireland was 20 years ago- it’s time for meaningful investment’ link.goloudplayer.com/s/pG1J2ArCVHlw

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As psychiatrists, we condemn the ways in which mental health services have deteriorated over the past decade our letter in | The Independent archive.ph/2024.06.15-122…

There's an increasing need to collaborate across teams & systems. Yet many leaders report "collaboration drag": too many meetings & collaborative processes that are messy, political & frustrating. Research shows that trying to reduce "collaboration drag" through senior leadership

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Still literally almost ZERO discussion of mental health anywhere in this general election campaign. So disappointing! #GeneralElection

I’m at Newbridge House today for #FlavoursOfFingal. We’re here all weekend spreading the word about our #GreenRibbonCampaign & the work we do to end mental health stigma in @Shineonlineirel and See Change and Headline - Supporting Media, Changing Attitudes. We are at the Wellness Lawn.

Colman Noctor: Mental health services need urgent large-scale investment irishexaminer.com/lifestyle/heal…

This new systematic review by Luisa Fassi et al is an impressive, helpful contribution to the literature on adolescent social media use and mental health problems tinyurl.com/5xb3ymfa Some thoughts below:

🗣️Free Suicide Prevention Resources We have developed 4 modules, the first one is aimed at anyone with an interest in understanding suicide, the other three modules go into more depth into the psychology of understanding and preventing suicide #Science2PreventSuicide

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“It will ensure mental health is given the same attention and focus as physical health."🔥🔥🔥 We're excited by how prominent mental health was in today's #KingsSpeech. This is just the start. We'll keep pushing to make sure the new UK government delivers on these promises💪

Clinical services must include complexity, from the get go! If I’ve learned anything from working w patients, it’s that people RARELY come w a single physical/mental issue 🧐 Delayed access worsens this reality - so excluding complexity penalises the patient 😫 #healthcare