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

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...

First plenary: Tom Osborne: Accessible, community-based youth mental health at scale: what can Africa teach us?

Kicking off #ESCAP with some jazz

Legends. #Pride #PrideMonth 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

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

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.

🚨 Paper alert 🚨 There’s a lot of debate at the moment around universal, interventions in schools. A thread 🧵 Our new meta-analysis, published today, shows they can work in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety. www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi... Findings discussed more below…

New paper out led by my fab PhD student @sarahhayward25 on collaborative relationships between #professionals and #parents of young people with #neurodisabilities doi.org/10.1007/s404...

It’s great to see this finally out - our viewpoint and learning from implementing #socialprescribing in the #US

Can #socialprescribing be implemented in #schools for #pupils or who #lonely? We are testing this across 12 schools nationally, testing its feasibility, acceptability and suitability (and are looking for more schools for next stage) Protocol paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

What is the impact of youth sector proviso n on mental health? Check out our latest report commissioned by NCST tinyurl.com/uhxmuu32 @ucl-sbb.bsky.social

Very excited to be developin best practice guidelines for #child and #youth #socialprescribing as part of this work

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/

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 @ucliehc.bsky.social

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

New resource alert! Teaching #SocialPrescribing: An Educator’s Guide, based on my course “Social Prescribing in the City" Available here: bit.ly/3VFnz3O

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

🚨 hot off the press 🚨our new review exploring longitudinal #risk and #protective factors for #loneliness in youth, led by the amazing @bueckersusanne.bsky.social nyaspubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

Interested in mental health/young people's mental health? We have got post doc jobs out to advert now! www.bath.ac.uk/jobs/Vacancy... - this is part of the NIHR award to Bath, and the post doc opportunities are very exciting. Working potentially across work packages and getting training too!

Looking to connect with the #SocialPrescribing community on Bluesky? Check out my starter pack and let me know if I missed someone:

📢Reminder to join us for the next #GlobalSpeakerSeries session on Nov 28! 🌍 I, along with Dr. Nicole D'Souza, and Le-Tien Bhaskar, will explore social prescribing opportunities on post-secondary campuses and #studentmentalhealth Register now uoft.me/b55

Did you miss out webinar detailing practical examples and learning from #socialprescribing in #CAMHS. It’s now available to stream here: youtu.be/50Mvwug1xv8?...

We're delighted to have published this new new study 📣 Read the first comprehensive analysis of #SocialPrescribing across diverse referral pathways in the UK, using data records provided by Access Elemental - full BJ Psych paper in the link below sbbresearch.org/pioneering-i...

Had a great last night hallowing carving with colleagues at UCL Social Biobehavioural Research Group 👻🎃

Led by the fab CaitlinMuhl our collective commentary on #socialprescribing seeking consensus and defining across context is out now bmchealthservres.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Looking forward to a second great day at Edge Hill university exploring green youth #socialprescribing for # children and #youngpeople

Toronto bound for the Canadian Institute for Social Prescribing conference. Looking forward to hear lots of exciting work in the #socialprescribing , seeing lots of amazing colleagues and meeting new people from across the globe

Youth social prescribing in action This NASP webinar on 14 Nov, 12-1.30pm will share the latest learning & research from the Wellbeing While Waiting project by UCl exploring how #SocialPrescribing could help young people while they wait to access #CAMHS: ow.ly/tlRK50TmI0e

Hi #psychscisky! Have taken the plunge I’m a researcher/psychologist interested in social, cultural and community support and its imapct on mental health outcomes. My main interest is social prescribing and am currently running studies in schools and camhs investigating implementation & impact