Looking to interview a few staff from UK adult inpatient mental health services about management of self-harm for a PhD study - please contact me [email protected] if interested in taking part.

I'm doing a remote talk with the lovely people at Thalamos at 12:30pm today Monday (22 Sept) to support NHS leaders to prepare for when the Mental Health Bill becomes law. Sign up here: events.teams.microsoft.com/event/a6127d...

Incredible week at 49th #ACMHN2025 Conference 🌿 600 delegates, world-class keynotes, & powerful invitation to Treaty from Te Ao Maramatanga. Proud to stand with #MHNurses & #RMIT driving innovation, education & leadership in #MentalHealthNursing 💚 Blog + photos: drrhondawilson.com/f/mental-hea...

Are you a researcher who works with young people? Our #McPin10for10 resources showcase our learning & reflections from working across a wide range of projects with young people for over a decade - find out more below 👇 #YMHD2025

Reflections 4 #mhnr2025 Keynote by EbE Raf Hamaiza on taking every opportunity to build bridges, the importance of continuing to demonstrate compassion & kindness, and a key theme about rehumanising nurses…

Reflections 3 #mhnr2025 having a research conference dedicated to MHNursing feels essential for the continued development and vibrancy of our profession, and for the quality & safety of the care we provide. Yet it remains so challenging for nurses to attend….

Reflections 2 #mhnr2025 we keep funding psychological interventions in lots of settings primary care/ED (but they exclude too many groups, largely not implementable), why are we not able to fund this in routine secondary mental health care/inpatient settings.

Wonderful presentation from Beth talking about #PsychologicalSafety and restrictive practices - incredible PhD #mhnr2025

Reflections from #mhnr2025 MHNursing research & innovation key to developing creative solutions from population to the ward. Too much focus on the ‘injectables’ rather than the art & science need. None of this would be possible without true input from those with lived experience.

Prof Paul Crawford talking about using creative video to improve the health literacy of young people. #MHNR2025 www.whatsupwitheveryone.com

At the 30th International Mental Health Nursing Research Conference #MHNR2025 - so important to keep raising the profile of #MHNursing research.

Warm thanks to Professor @drjohnabaker.bsky.social , our amazing keynote speaker at @acmhn.bsky.social conference today #MHNurses #ACMHN2025

Psychiatric Coercion Lacks Ethical or Legal Justification, Scholar Argues Dirk Richter reviews the five ethical and legal standards for forced treatment and finds none are met. By Kelly McFadden www.madinamerica.com/2025/09/psyc...

"Managing Your Mental Health During Your PhD: A Survival Guide" has been out for 3 years. I don't do "proud" very often, but I am proud of the people I've helped through writing it. Thank you to everyone who's supported me with it and convinced me that writing it was a good idea.

At the #HSJpatientsafety Congress, and delighted to be part of the session ‘Breaking the silence: confronting failings of the UK mental health system: neglect, failings and systemic breakdowns’ continuing to have those difficult #HonestConversations…..

England’s oldest psychiatric hospital stages haunting new exhibition of patient art www.euronews.com/culture/2025... h/t @overdenken.bsky.social x

"Whistleblower warned police against axing mental health callouts" - Strictly speaking, I cautioned them against axing mental health callouts they should still be going to, but near enough. Also nice to see @wmpolice.bsky.social did not deny ignoring my concerns. www.thetimes.com/uk/crime/art...

Day 2 @ #acmhn2025 bringing #WardSonar #psychologicalsafety and lot of other research to Australia, keynote at 9am….(bit nervous)

Day 2 @ #acmhn2025 bringing #WardSonar #psychologicalsafety and lot of other research to Australia, keynote at 9am….(bit nervous)

🚨 New research alert! Women with ADHD are up to 4x more likely to experience severe premenstrual mood symptoms (PMDD) — especially if they also live with depression or anxiety. 🌀 🧵 THREAD #ADHD #PMDD #WomensHealth #MentalHealth

At start of #acmhn2025 with welcome to country, and graduation ceremony. @ACMHN 49th conference of over 600 mental health nurses from Australia and beyond - incredible achievement.

On route to #ACMHN conference very much looking forward to raising the profile of #MHNursing @rhondawilsonmhn.bsky.social @acmhn.bsky.social

Some (no doubt annoyingly) glass-half-full reflections on REF2029 pause, for academic and PS staff involved in HEI submission(s). If, like me, you're having to deal with the hiatus in the known unknowns, what's a viable approach to take? Some very preliminary thoughts. 1/7

Great opportunity to join us at the University of Leeds as a Research Fellow in Quality and Safety, focusing on applied research to improve medicines safety and patient safety... jobs.leeds.ac.uk/Vacancy.aspx...

Now Recruiting – #StaffedWards Lived Experience Advisory Group. For more information, see the webpage below: drjohnabaker.co.uk/2025/09/04/n...

Now Recruiting – #StaffedWards Lived Experience Advisory Group. For more information, see the webpage below: drjohnabaker.co.uk/2025/09/04/n...

Mental Elf Monthly for August 2025 is now LIVE Catch August’s most-read blogs, from trauma to CBT harms, and book your free spot at our difficult-to-treat depression webinar. national-elf-service.kit.com/posts/mental...

Views of #Suicide-Bereaved Adults Regarding the Significance of the Deceased’s Death Date: our new article in the Journal of Loss & Trauma highlights the importance of future dates (eg birthdays; death anniversaries) as potential temporal risk factors for suicide www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Looking for mental health research funding? 👀 We've launched a new portal where you can search open grant calls – from conference support to multi-year consortium grants! Free to access & open to all disciplines 👉 iamhrf.org/researchers/ #MentalHealthResearch #Funding

These findings raise questions about the extent to which the NHS is not only reliant on, but has outsourced particular types of care, or the care of specific populations. Read our analysis in full. www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...

🧵NHS mental health services have a long-standing relationship with the independent sector. Our recent analysis shows that in March 2025, over 28% of NHS-funded mental health bed availability was in the independent sector.

✐ Can classroom mental health lessons actually harm some students? This new scoping review looked at CBT & mindfulness-based school interventions and found troubling signs of harm in some cases. #Schools #YouthMentalHealth #CBT #Mindfulness #UniversalInterventions 🧵 THREAD

🎙️ New MPFT Podcast episode! Just me, talking about my NIHR funded Senior Research Position and how we aim to build a research culture and support MH & LD nurses to become more involved. 🎧Listen now: youtu.be/10S02Cumk4w?... #MPFTResearch #NIHR #ResearchCareers #NursingResearch #SRL

Our paper - ‘Towards a Mad Technoscience: revealing, repurposing, and reimagining carceral mental health technologies’ is out now (limited access here) bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/view/journal... You can get full access to our original here: www.researchgate.net/publication/...

As part of the Culture of Care Programme, @drleahquinlivan.bsky.social is delivering learning events on topics related to personalised approaches to risk, alongside people with lived experience & academic experts. Recordings available for each event on our website: buff.ly/6Ypdvbx

New article: Menstruation is undoubtedly an important consideration when evaluating the physical well-being of patients in eating disorder treatment. However, the focus must go beyond simply equating the return of menstruation with health and recovery link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Thank you to @nsunnews.bsky.social for funding the research. The full research article is available here: onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1111/...

It was a sad but necessary pleasure to sit down with @dctaudio.bsky.social and Richard Horton last month and talk about police mental health and suicide. A difficult topic, but in need of airing given awful, recent events. You hear the first 10-minute taster here - audioboom.com/posts/876396...

We have been working hard updating #WardSonar, thanks to @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social, we have some fab new designs, and thanks to a funded intern, we nearly have a version of #WardSonar which can be made available under an open-source software free to use license.

We have been working hard updating #WardSonar, thanks to @niftyfoxcreative.bsky.social, we have some fab new designs, and thanks to a funded intern, we nearly have a version of #WardSonar which can be made available under an open-source software free to use license.

I still get chills Meet Mike *30+ years severe depression *first hospitalized @ 13y *20 meds *3 rounds of ECT *2 near-fatal suicide attempts Mike felt joy for the first time in decades after we turned on his new brain pacemaker or PACE see videos, read paper, follow thread doi.org/10.31234/osf...

🔺 People with ADHD were 9x more likely to be hypersensitive 🔻 Hyposensitivity more likely in adults 🎧 Difficulties with sound, touch, movement, and light 🚫 Tools often fail to reflect these differences 🤷🏽♀️ Underrepresentation of women & ethnic minorities 📖 Read more: buff.ly/JPvWsvW

Sir Keir Starmer’s plan to overhaul the NHS has been thrown into chaos after no money has been set aside to cover the costs of making thousands of redundancies at ICBs www.thetimes.com/article/14b7...

⚡️ Trauma is more than PTSD. It’s a public health issue affecting minds, bodies & systems across the globe. This 15-year review takes a lifespan, gendered & transdiagnostic lens; exploring diagnosis, comorbidity, neurobiology & moral injury. #Trauma #MentalHealth #PTSD #PublicHealth 🧵 THREAD

An important new development at NCISH. We are resuming detailed data collection into patient homicide. This programme will expand on the national homicide inquiry that ended in 2018. We plan to explore new questions, additional methodologies & work closely with affected families.

Read our new MJA qual paper! Clinicians in psychiatric emergency units (PECCs) face intense emotional demands and systemic contradictions around risk. Clear frameworks + flat hierarchies protect wellbeing—but structural change is needed. Read more 👉 doi.org/10.5694/mja2... #mentalhealth #psychiatry

🚨 A new joint policy paper from @centreformh.bsky.social and @prisonadvice.bsky.social highlights a growing mental health crisis in prisons and calls for urgent reform in how funding is allocated to support people with mental health needs. 🔗 tinyurl.com/43wr3s4s

Prisons are facing a mounting mental health crisis. ➡️ Rates of self-harm have more than tripled in the last decade ➡️ Among prisoners, 56% of men & 74% of women report having mental health problems ➡️ Too many unwell prisoners face long waits for transfer to hospital We need change - now.