New paper - a feasibility trial of an innovative crisis planning and monitoring approach to preventing compulsory detentions under the Mental Health Act. Please do have a look and share if you think it's interesting! Thanks link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Resource: helping families when there’s a mental health crisis Included: links to other resources eg the guilt and grief after a suicide. Developed in partnership with dr Rachel Gibbons, a medical psychotherapist Please share. MFC is a nonprofit. www.makingfamiliescount.org.uk/life-beyond-...

Hi! I've just joined Bluesky, so I thought I'd re-share my paper about area-level predictors of involuntary psychiatric hospitalisation across England. Give it a read if you're interested! link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Enhancing mental health care for autistic people: practical adaptations, ready to go buff.ly/MzJvUPJ #Autism #MentalHealth #MentalHealthCare #MentalHealthServices #SystematicReview 🧵 THREAD

While I'm at it... I'm equally looking forward to this one!

Looking forward to singing in this really lovely programme next Sunday in Greenwich!

Apologies - in our excitement at joining bluesky we managed to get our own concert date wrong- our beautiful Lenten programme of Howells, Purcell, Briggs, Dove, Lobo, Charpentier, Biber and more is on Sat 8th March!

An honour and privilege to examine early career researchers especially (Dr) Sarah Ikhtabi. I feel so optimistic to meet researchers who value science, rigour, curiosity & lived experience. Congratulations to the splendid supervision team @soniajohnson1.bsky.social @alexandrapitman.bsky.social

Many congrats to my & @alexandrapitman.bsky.social 's brilliant PhD student Dr (almost) Sarah Ikhtabi for breezing through her viva for her PhD on Loneliness & Complex Emotional Needs, and to v kind & insightful examiners @andygumley.bsky.social and Hélène Joffe! #proudsupervisor

New paper - a synthesis of qualitative studies on loneliness among people with psychosis, exploring aspects of psychosis that put people at risk of being lonely, including stigma and the isolating nature of psychotic experiences @alexandrapitman.bsky.social journals.plos.org/plosone/arti...

How can we help young people feel less lonely? https://buff.ly/3ORlXQN Lauren Turner @laureneturner.bsky.social explores young people’s views on the acceptability and feasibility of youth loneliness interventions. @soniajohnson1.bsky.social #Loneliness #Youth #Interventions

We're delighted that 22 of our academics have been identified in Clarivate’s annual ‘Highly Cited Researchers List’ 2024, recognising authors of the most influential research papers around the world. @neilmdavies.bsky.social, @soniajohnson1.bsky.social, @susanmichie.bsky.social bit.ly/3ZARQ4R

The @MentalHealthPRU has just published a systematic review on surveillance technologies in inpatient mental healthcare settings.