Happy birthday to Jah Wobble. Here's Visions of You featuring Sinéad O'Connor, filmed for Going Live in 1992. youtu.be/qwGEsCKv-H8

The GABI study is exploring the experiences of those who give birth under general anaesthetic. Could you or someone you know help improve maternity care by taking part in this valuable research? 👇 qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

Come work with us! The department is full of very talented and clever people, who are also great fun to chat science with. PLUS imaging facilities, great students, and a growing mental health institute led by the fab @sacairney.bsky.social. Aidan is alright too, I guess.

I'm delighted that our book Break Free from Maternal Anxiety is part of @readingagency’s #ReadingWell for families book collection! Designed to support parental mental health and wellbeing in pregnancy and beyond, find out more about the scheme here 👉 readingagency.org.uk/reading-well 📚

🧵1/ New research alert! Our preprint is out: the largest study to date exploring neuropsychiatric and mental health outcomes in women with hyperemesis gravidarum (HG). What did we find? A lot, and it matters. 📄https://ssrn.com/abstract=5263136 👇

Well done arsenal women champions of Europe ⚽️🏆

The GABI study is exploring the experiences of those who give birth under general anaesthetic. This #WorldMaternalMentalHealthDay, could you or someone you know help improve maternity care by taking part in this valuable research? 👇 qualtrics.kcl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_...

14 years ago, the MMHA began with a simple call: "More needs to be done!" From 15 organisations to 130+ members, we’re working together to make equitable, compassionate #PerinatalMentalHealth care a reality for all mums, birthing people, babies & families. 💜 #MMHAW25

🚨 Just out in Nature Medicine: the RESiLIENT study (n=3,936; 9 CBT-based arms vs 3 controls) 📱 Massive RCT of smartphone-delivered CBT skills It challenges major assumptions in psychotherapy research. 📄 www.nature.com/articles/s41... 🧵Three key insights:

32% of people do not have their HIV diagnosis recorded in their mental health records! New paper: journals.plos.org/plosone/arti... @drladesmith.bsky.social @khe-kings.bsky.social @lizhughesdd.bsky.social @mike-newson.bsky.social @bhiva.bsky.social @joolzbw.bsky.social @maudsleynhs.bsky.social

Today, OXPIP's founder Sue Gerhardt launches her new book "1001 days: How Our First Years Shape our Lifelong Health". We're giving away one free copy chosen at random from the people who retweet one of our social media posts by 8th April. Available to purchase from today.

New ARC South London research will explore the experience of giving birth under general anaesthetic. arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/research-and...

very excited to be speaking as part of this important event!

Have you seen this great interactive map of grassroots #PerinatalMentalHeath services in England for parents & professionals created by @hmpartnership.bsky.social buff.ly/3tYLMr9 @mmhalliance.bsky.social @pmhpuk.bsky.social @lucianaberger.bsky.social @dadmattersuk.bsky.social @ellieware.bsky.social

Almost 100% of women will experience perinatal intrusions... intrusive thoughts and images of accidental child-related harm. www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

I’m doing some perinatal OCD upskilling training later this month >> pearlperinatal.com/courses/cbt-...

The most extraordinary thing about James Harrison, who donated his rare plasma every 2 weeks for over 60 years and saved the lives of an estimated 2.4 million babies, is that he had to overcome a FEAR OF NEEDLES. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

#academicsky #philsci British Academy looking for clever stuff

Please retweet: @babcpjournals.bsky.social Spring Conference In Person 8th-9th April, London. Keynotes: Prof Lance McCracken (Uppsala) ACT for Pain, Associate Prof Janet Feigenbaum (UCL) on DBT, Dr Pamela Jacobsen (Bath) on Mindfulness & Dr Mary Welford on Compassion:Info👇 babcp.com/Spring-Confe...

📣📣📣 If you are in the ÙK and working up a mental health research fellowship application this could be just what you need! Please share widely ⬇️⬇️⬇️

If you’ve not read the story before, I promise you, you cannot guess, at any point in the thread, the set of circumstances that leads to this point

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Looking forward to giving my webinar entitled "CBT for OCD: New Tips for Old Challenges" for @cacbt.bsky.social January 8, 11:00am-12:30pm ET Hope to see you (virtually) there! cacbt.member365.ca/public/event...

The Lucy Cavendish Fiction Prize now for the "unputdownable" novel f RT on unpublished women. The winner will receive a £1,500 prize, and all shortlisted authors get a one-on-one consultation with a literary agent. Please share. www.lucy.cam.ac.uk/fictionprize

We will be delivering a parent workshop in Nottingham on Friday 17th January 2025. This workshop is specifically for parents who have children with OCD who are in the CAMHS age bracket (ages 5-18).

Virtual wards in maternity settings could be an opportunity to deliver effective obstetric and psychological support- our discussion paper > www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...

Culture, identity and diversity can affect how we experience OCD and its treatment. This interactive talk and discussion will cover different aspects of identity and diversity shape the therapy journey. Visit our website for more information and to book your place - www.ocduk.org/culture-iden...

"41% of parents say that most days they are so stressed they cannot function and 48% say that most days their stress is completely overwhelming" from the U.S. Surgeon General Advisory on the Mental Health and Well-Being of Parents www.hhs.gov/surgeongener...

Editorial celebrating the work of Hannah Murray, who left us far too soon.

📢📢📢 Fully funded ESRC studentship with us here in @oxexppsy.bsky.social focussing on youth trauma and sexual harm with Dr Alex Lau-Zhu, Prof Lucy Bowes and Dr Carmen Chan. Deadline is Jan 3rd (link says Dec 3rd in error): www.granduniondtp.ac.uk/enhancing-ea...

Great to be invited to the BABCP webinar today on how we can all support an increase in Low Intensity CBT papers etc. Thanks all and all three webinars were recorded and are available for members via the website. @stephcurnow.bsky.social @thwaites.bsky.social

Ah yes… yes. This captures it.

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Hello. Someone told me this was the place to be, so I’m giving it a try! Keen to connect & reconnnect with friends from the worlds of early childhood, infant mental health, dev psych, perinatal, family support, child poverty etc. Please do connect & let me know who I should be looking out for.

PTSD often goes unnoticed in people with mild intellectual disability or borderline intellectual functioning. This prevents them from getting proper care. The authors of this paper developed a screening instrument for this group that achieved decent accuracy.

We are new here but looking forward to getting involved in conversations related to improving child and adolescent mental health

My interview on Perinatal OCDwith Rachel Handley for the BABCP #cbt podcast sites.libsyn.com/529557/site/... I’m still regularly shocked at how much misunderstanding and lack of recognition there is about #perinatal #OCD when it’s such a common problem

Todays ipaper article on unwanted intrusive thoughts in new parents #ocd #perinatal inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...

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I have loved watching the women’s T20 World Cup. Well done to worthy winners New Zealand. Great semis and finals. Back to work now.. 🏏

A common problem when performing evidence synthesis is that popular risk of bias tools don’t precisely suit the kind of studies you’re synthesizing. The LATITUDES network is a searchable library of risk of bias tools categorized by study design www.jclinepi.com/article/S089...

This is a neat little quiz, very quick and quite interesting: is my blue your blue? ismy.blue

Gosh it’s nice over here isn’t it??

#HiSciSky I'm a UK clinical psychologist at Oxford Uni and KCL interested in perinatal mental health, understanding the impact on the family and improving psychological interventions. Specialist expertise in #OCD and anxiety disorders #DevSci #PsychSciSky #ClinPsy