🌟 Excited to share insights from my PhD research on accessing mental health support for children in care! 💙 This blog dives into challenges and facilitators for accessing support, such as trusted adults and addressing apprehensions felt by children in care and care-leavers

I'm still looking for a few more #CEP participants. I will be closing this study just before Christmas, so if you want to take part, this is your last chance! Thanks to everyone who has contributed! 🫶

*RA JOB* UCL UCL Psych & Lang Sci We're advertising a full-time 18-mo Research Assistant role to join the ReThink project - exploring the transdiagnostic mental health of care-experienced yp. I'm biased of course, but it's a lovely team to work in. Link in thread. Pls RT!

I will again host the Care Leavers Association Christmas Quiz and Zoom Get-together on Christmas Day (7-9 p.m.). It's for care leavers of all ages. We'll send out joining details in the next day or so. I'll be writing the questions, so feel free to suggest categories.

🚨 Newly published paper! In this qualitative project, we asked nine care-leavers (18-25 y/o) about their experiences of trying to access professional mental health support. Published open-access in @BPSofficial 's Psychology and Psychotherapy! bpspsychub.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/pa…

Had the loveliest day yesterday with our care-experienced advisors 🥰 my heart is so full! They are each so inspiring and remind us why we are doing this research, and always centre us back to the most important messages that we need to share! So grateful for all their support 🙏🏼

Devastating report on the scale and impact of child poverty. Urgent action following an evidence based approach is vital as spelled out very clearly here- n8research.org.uk/media/CoTN_Pov…

Yesterday, Rosie McGuire, Dr Eva A Sprecher and I hosted a webinar for #SocialWorkWeek about supporting the mental health needs of children in care and care-leavers. Thank you to attendees for sharing your stories of what works for you and the young people you care for ✨

I'm reposting this, as the deadline has been extended to next Monday, 15th April. The ICO have so far had almost 200 completed responses. They want to improve the experience for care leavers accessing their care files. This is the best chance we have to influence their guidance.

Recruiting for a laboratory study. You must be aged 18-50 and be able to bring an accompanying person with you. This can be a friend, partner, family member or other! Get in touch with me at [email protected]. Please retweet LJMU Psychology PGR Liverpool John Moores University LJMUHealth

Read our latest blog about barriers to delivering #MentalHealth treatments to young people in care by Rachel Hiller from NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) West NIHR Applied Research Collaboration North Thames, Rosie McGuire and Zoe Trinder-Widdess 🌱💚 👇 nihr.ac.uk/blog/how-can-w…

Check out our first author interview for our new children's book 'Where Did My Dinosaur Go?' - a book about trust and foster care, developed from UCL research in collaboration with care-experienced people and foster carers. Published with CoramBAAF eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com/?url=https%3A%…

With the UK Trauma Council (Anna Freud) we’re running online and in-person roundtables to understand commissioning practices across England, that might affect mental health provision for young people in care. Pls share widely! NIHR Applied Research Collaborations (ARCs) NHS England

If you are care experienced and working in academia, or would like to be in the future, this article is invaluable. In particular, the interviews with care experienced academics are a pot of gold that the article authors make good use of.

The 1st paper from the ADaPT project is out now 📝 I’m so grateful to all of our participating services for sharing their experiences of implementing trauma-focused CBT with care-experienced young people. We hope sharing this learning will impact practice - please share widely!

So proud of this project - we’ve worked hard to share our key messages in as many formats as possible to help get a wider reach 👀 check out our blog post too!

Most kids in care in England cannot access direct psychotherapy (let alone tf-CBT) due to service set-up. This is a solvable problem! - Joined-up working btw social care & CAMHS - Priority access to CAMHS - Prioritise high quality assessment Already good examples out there

A perfect symposium organised by R Meiser-Stedman dedicated to the life and work of Prof Bill Yule. Fittingly, hearing from the next generation of child trauma and PTSD researchers, looking at needs across different methods and contexts. BABCP #BABCP2014