💬 Check out our newest blog post "A Day in the Life of a Research Assistant"! Our team member Reilly shares a sneak peak into an day of working in her role at ReSET. Share this with anyone who may be interested in a career in psychology research or is a recent psychology grad!

Go check out the first episode of our ReSET Mental Health Podcast! Listen on YouTube on the Mental Elf's page!🧠🎤

Happy New Year from the ReSET Team!✨⭐ We hope that you see the year out in style - whether that's celebrating with family, partying with friends or relaxing at home watching some good TV!🥂

On the 1st Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 1 Amazing Project 🌈🎁 ReSET is more than a study - it’s a collaborative effort of researchers, schools, teachers, students, caregivers, and clinicians. Here’s to the journey and promising results so far - and what’s still to come!! #12DaysofReSET

Happy Holidays from the ReSET Team!🎄❄️ We hope you have a festive period filled with joy, laughter, and plenty of celebrations. ReSET has enjoyed the festivities - decorating our office, filming holiday related content, festive lunches, and office christmas party. 🥂

On the 2nd Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 2 Professors had an idea 💡🎓 It all started with a conversation between Professors Essi Viding and Pasco Fearon. They saw the growing need for adolescent mental health support, and imagined a school-based, preventative, transdiagnostic intervention.

On the 3rd Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 3 Assessment Timepoints 🧠📈 We tracked our participants over 2-3 years, checking in on their wellbeing, peer relationships, and social-emotional development.

On the 4th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 4 Years Running 🕰️📆 From 2021 to 2025, ReSET’s been on the move - designing, delivering, evaluating and reflecting. Now we’re in the final stretch: analysing results, writing up findings, and sharing what we’ve learned!

On the 5th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 560 Participants 👨👩👧👦🎉 We aimed for 540... and smashed it. Across 28 groups, over 560 young people took part in ReSET — split almost evenly between intervention and control.

On the 6th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 6 Publications (so far!) 📚🖋️ Even with all the busyness of the last 4 years, we still managed to publish! 💪 From evaluations of the feasibility study to development insights, ReSET’s made its mark in academic journals - and we’re not done yet!

On the 7th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 7 South-East Councils 🗺️📍 ReSET's gone nation-wide! While the majority of our groups ran within Central London and surrounding boroughs, we also travelled as far as Kent - visits to each school ranging from 11 to well over 100 times!🏃

On the 8th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 8 Week Intervention 📆 Those allocated to the intervention arm were invited to attend the 8 week intervention. Consisting of a session a week, focusing on developing skills for emotional processing & relational skills.

🔥Team Spotlight🔥 Another ReSET Co-PI who needs no introduction Prof. Pasco Fearon is Director of the Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research and a world-leading developmental and clinical psychologist researching child development and mental health.🧠

On the 9th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 9 Co-Investigators🔍 ReSET involves many moving parts, psychological concepts and methodological considerations. The breadth of the project meant we had to call upon some of the smartest minds to help design and implement ReSET.🧠

On the 10th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 10 Pupils per Group📖 ReSET participants were the top 15% on the Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire, which measures psychopathology. They were randomly put into a group of 10, resulting in varied gender, ethnicity, and neurodiversity.

On the 11th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 11 Secondary Schools🏫 This one is a bit of a stretch, as we technically worked with 12 schools (2 are sites belonging to the same school group) - but we made it work for the song!📖

On the 12th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 12 Team Members❄️ If you have been keeping up with our posts over the last few months you would know the team fairly well by now (shameless plug)!🔌💡

❄️It's beginning to look a lot like ReSET .... ❄️ Make sure to stay tuned over the next 12 days as we reveal a little more information about the finer details of ReSET.🎁🎄 #12DaysofReSET

☀️Team Spotlight☀️ Truly needing no introduction, Prof. Essi Viding is a Co-PI of ReSET. She is Pro Vice Provost for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge and chairs UCL's Children and Young People's Special Interest Group. She also co-directs the DRRU, where ReSET is based.📚

Our very own lab member @ritikac.bsky.social has released her first study from her PhD as a preprint! Well done👏

⚡Team Spotlight⚡ Josh is our newest Research Assistant, assisting the final stages by co-leading our dissemination and using his coding skills to clean, score, and audit our data. He also leads a paper assessing student and school factors contributing to adolescent mental health and wellbeing🧠

📣Team Spotlight📣 Reilly is one of our newest members, leading the project’s dissemination. With a background in creative content production, she’s used her communication skills to assist the final stages of data collection and creating engaging and accessible ways to spread the ReSET message💌

Another shameless throwback! 👀🤫 At our conference we welcomed many wonderful and bright individuals to contribute their voices to ReSET. 😍 Watch this short compilation of some of our interviews to hear their thoughts and what impact they believe ReSET could have! 📣🗣️ youtube.com/shorts/hBYrU...

💡Team Spotlight💡 Introducing Alex, a post-doctoral research fellow on ReSET. Alex has been involved in designing and developing the cognitive-emotional training tasks used in the project. He has been closely involved in our intervention's development and the evaluation of collected measures.

Today wraps up Anti-Bullying Week - but that does not mean we should stop discussing bullying and making sure we are doing what we can to support our peers! The team had a lot of fun wearing our #OddSocks - do you own a fun pair??👀🧦

Today is World Kindness Day 💛 Showing kindness towards others is a fundamental part of the ReSET groups – whether it's listening, showing empathy, or helping someone feel seen by your actions. Let’s take a moment to notice others and choose kindness today 🌸 #worldkindnessday #ReSETMentalHealth

This is anti-bullying week, pioneered by the Anti-Bullying Alliance and a particularly relevant cause for ReSET as we work with adolescents. At our conference last week, Prof. René Veenstra and Prof. Lucy Bowes presented some interesting research surrounding adolescent bullying behaviours.

Co-production – an increasingly common indicator of good and relevantly informed research. However, it should be more than a buzzword thrown around to ensure the right box is ticked🚨✔ – a belief both ReThink and ReSET strongly hold.

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.

Reflecting on the ReSET conference last week... Thank you to everyone who made the day brilliant, the speakers presented interesting research – including our own results showing evidence for reductions in mental health symptoms for those who received the intervention!

👋 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

🌿 Today is National Stress Awareness Day. It's important to remember that not all stress is bad, but if stress begins to interfere with daily life and cause other negative symptoms, it's time to take action. Here is a one-minute breathing video that can help with immediate relief 💙 buff.ly/JJs7Yum

📣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...⬇️)

Today is officially ReSET conference day!😍 For those who aren't able to join us in-person, The Mental Elf will be live-tweeting our event over on their Bluesky page! Give them a follow @thementalelf.bsky.social for updates posted throughout the day.#ReSETMentalHealth #conference #UCL#research

🙌 Our much anticipated #ReSET conference is just days away! This Tuesday 4th November a BIG announcement will be made about the results of our project...👀 @thementalelf.bsky.social will be live tweeting the event, so be sure to have your notifications on to catch all of the latest updates 🔔 #UCL

ReSET combines elements of interpersonal therapy with app-based cognitive-emotional training 🧠 📱. Through group sessions, young people used different “Me” and “We” strategies to consider different ways to resolve interpersonal issues and perceive others’ emotions and behaviours more positively.

🔆Team Spotlight🔆 Laura needs no inroduction! As ReSET's project manager she has lead all aspects of project delivery from the very beginning, including intervention development, recruitment of schools and students, data collection and dissemination activities.

🧡 The theme of this year's #ADHDawarenessmonth is 'The Many Faces of ADHD'. In this second episode of #CoffeeReSET, we discuss the long NHS wait lists, how ADHD affects boys vs girls, and how school's are adapting to better support young people with ADHD. www.tiktok.com/@reset.proje...

💡Team Spotlight💡 Libby has been with ReSET since June 2023, being involved with school screening, data collection & cleaning, and facilitating the ReSET sessions in schools throughout the ‘main trial’ phase.

📣 Attention all secondary schools! We’re inviting secondary schools to join the IMAGINE Study, an exciting UCL project on young people’s body image, wellbeing, and mental health. Help shape the future of adolescent mental health. 💭 Express Interest: buff.ly/wZ1aAnj Website: buff.ly/oOWFkZh

OCD Self-Care / Coping Strategies Mind (buff.ly/VW4iyFt) have some brilliant, and scientifically informed, self-care coping strategies for OCD. We particularly liked these three strategies, as they are not only useful for coping with OCD but also managing general wellbeing (very on-topic for us!).

This week is OCD Awareness Week. 📊Some stats📊 OCD affects 1 in 50 people in the UK, with various factors contributing to it's onset and it presenting differently for each person affected by it.

Today marks World Mental Health Day – a day for raising awareness about mental health around the world. However, it is important to remember that mental health is important to talk about every day, not just one day per year. #WorldMentalHealthDay #HelloYellow

We had the pleasure of attending Generation New Era’s consultation event yesterday featuring ReSET’s very own Professor Pasco Fearon, as well as co-directors Professor Alissa Goodman and Professor Lisa Calderwood.

💡Team Spotlight💡 Introducing Dr Tom Wu a post-doctoral research fellow on ReSET. Tom’s role focuses on our social network analysis – mapping the relationships and dynamics between the young people we’ve worked with. He assisted with data collection, cleaning, and analysing.

🚨 New paper alert! Adolescents’ Experiences of Risk and Protective Factors in Relation to Mental Wellbeing and Mental Health New study identifies distinct support profiles shaping how 11–12 year olds handle challenges. 🔗 www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.... #Research #CYPMH

Self-awareness is a critical skill to learn for emotional wellbeing – for both young people and adults! 🧒 🧓 Check out our previous blog post outlining ReSET's approach to building self-awareness. These strategies can be applied to people of all ages – not just young people. See below

🔆 Team Spotlight🔆 Everyone meet Manveer Sadhra, one of the research assistants on the ReSET Project. Manni is our longest-standing research assistant, having been on the team since January 2023. Manni's organisation, management, creativity, and problem-solving skills have been vital.

💡Team Spotlight 💡 We are excited to welcome Joshua Wood to the ReSET Team as our newest research assistant.

Our latest paper has just been published! 🎉 In this paper, we outline the multi-disciplinary approach used in developing the ReSET Project programme, a new transdiagnostic preventative intervention for adolescents. Read the full story here 👇 lnkd.in/eYkuaHZB