@iaspinfo.bsky.social Good to hear about initiatives like this that seek to understand and prevent youth self-harm and suicide, especially if it gathers evidence from young people themselves. www.ingentaconnect.com/content/ben/...

Whatever the origins of war, is it not a principle of great importance that those in power, or with influence over conflict, should do all they can to protect children - from war itself and from its consequences? Children carry those traumas into their futures, and indeed they are the future.

1/5 A very welcome announcement in the UK for increased funding for youth services. www.gov.uk/government/n...

Language deprivation (including adequate early access to sign language and good communication) are huge problems facing deaf children - affecting educational outcomes, social & emotional development, subsequent employment & finances and quality of life. Hugely important in a deaf child’s early life.

An interesting related study from Yorkshire led by @megang04.bsky.social (>6000 children in 21 schools) showed most schools believed they had a whole school approach, but only 43% achieved at least 4 of the 6 main elements. pmc.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/articles/PMC...

2/14 Research on child mental health support and interventions needs to broaden its horizons. Services have tended to prioritise interventions often based on adult models such as medication and CBT. Should we have more developmentally appropriate, child friendly interventions? What would these be?

Important report out this month exploring youth mental health in England, with highlights including decline in the myriad tapestry of youth services since 2010 youthfuturesfoundation.org/wp-content/u... @jess-deighton.bsky.social @olademk.bsky.social @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social

New research set to uncover lost ancient medical texts A team of researchers at @manchester.ac.uk have secured a major €2.5 million grant from the @erc.europa.eu to uncover lost medical writings that could transform our understanding of ancient medicine. ⤵️ www.manchester.ac.uk/about/news/n...

Evidence from the MBRRACE-UK perinatal epidemiology study showing higher risks & worse maternity outcomes for women with past children’s social care involvement. Better co-working & communication is needed between maternity services, social care & community health. www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

More important research from York’s Professor of environmental science @AlistairBoxall.Bskyb.social @york.co.uk showing levels of pollution in UK rivers of great concern to health www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... @SteveBarclay.bskyb.social

Why this matters: While we know deaf people face unique challenges growing up, we've lacked standardized ways to measure these experiences and their impact on lifelong health and wellbeing. 2/6

In June English teachers will collect Early Years Foundation Stage (EYFS) profile information for Reception children across 7 areas of learning/development: socio-emotional, expressive arts, communication/language, understanding the world, physical, literacy and mathematics. 1/3

Maternal warmth in infancy is a powerful factor in children’s social and emotional development. For example…1/3

More great work from the “Born in Bradford” research family @bihr.bsky.social @profrosiemc.bsky.social

A great piece of research exploring how accurately autistic people, non-autistic people and a mixed group with both, pass on information on in a chain of communication. A nice short informatics video also to explain the results.

📢Calling experts in UK health and social care staff wellbeing, including staff working there! We need your help to understand the demands staff face at work and which resources best support them to inform future research. Find out more: tinyurl.com/3wb5vj6x

Manualised attachment-based interventions can help to nurture parent-infant relationships. Great to see this new systematic review highlighting that 80% of the studies found an improvement in parent-infant relationships. #Attachment #parentinfantrelationships link.springer.com/article/10.1...

Children caught up in war are at risk in so many ways. Their physical and mental health should be protected from the impact of war. This article in Global Public Health lays out clear ways to try to achieve this: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Eating together with friends or family members has benefits such as enhancing social connectedness. Countries where people share more meals have higher levels of social support and positive social reciprocity, and are less likely to experience loneliness. worldhappiness.report/ed/2025/shar...

A recent UK survey @rnid.bsky.social of over 1000 deaf people found that, of 121 British Sign Language users who responded, 56% had to rely on a family member or friend to interpret for them in NHS settings (including their children) rnid.org.uk/get-involved...

There has recently been more research and gradually increasing understanding of the role of non-coding RNA in neurodevelopmental disorders. doi:10.1371/journal.pone.0287131

Interesting paper by Prof Amy Bogaard & colleagues on archaeological data from 45 000 houses, ranging from 20,000 years ago-20th century (Western Asia to the South Pacific). Early findings on house size distribution suggest societal inequality is not inevitable. More to come! doi.org/10.15184/aqy...

After 47 incredible years in the NHS, ODP Steve “Robbo” Robinson is retiring 👏 Starting his career as a porter at 18, he’s been a much-loved part of York Hospital since 1986 - bringing skill, stories, and smiles to every department. Thank you for all your dedication, Robbo! 💙

3/3 One way forwards is, with young people’s help, to supercharge a lot more research into child oriented, child friendly interventions that make use of the arts (e.g. music, art, drama, movement, dance, poetry), nature, activities, play and social networking. doi.org/10.3390/ijer...

1/2 A UK survey of attachment intervention and support with infants such as adopted or fostered children shows that many interventions with a good evidence base are not being used and some of the interventions being used don’t have a good evidence base doi.org/10.3310/IVCN...

1/3 www.annualreviews.org/content/jour... Repeated systematic reviews over the years from John Weisz and colleagues suggest that treatment in young people for common conditions such as low mood and depression “have shown persistently modest effects”…

Are you a UK-based teacher, support worker or teaching assistant who works with autistic children? A masters' student in my Faculty is doing some research into autistic social play and would really like to hear from you cambridge.eu.qualtrics.com/jfe/form/SV_...

Sign Language Week is a flagship awareness week for British Sign Language and Irish Sign Language, celebrated every year in March to commemorate the first time BSL was acknowledged as a language in its own right by the UK Government on 18 March 2003. 2/5

@dstibbardhawkes.bsky.social Fascinating questions asked in this paper about how much evidence may be left behind as time passes from the tools and objects hunter gatherers use. doi.org/10.1017/S014...

An important report on the state of wildlife in Yorkshire for anyone interested in our supporting our diverse wildlife.

Some impressive reflections and sheens from the North Yorkshire coast today

📢 Shortlisting survey! What are the most important questions that researchers should be investigating on the topic of Childhood Deafness and Hearing Loss? Have your say:

If you are working in Deaf Studies and want a fully funded paid year as a researcher at Gallaudet University, this Deaf Studies incubator fellowship is open for applications deafincubator.com/apply/?fbcli...

1/2 An interesting article from Nature Medicine doi.org/10.1038/s415... @austinargen.bsky.social exploring the contributions of lifestyle factors and genetics towards mortality

Snowdrops out in force

In this article for the @wsj.com, Dr Lucy Foulkes outlines the responsibility of #socialmedia tech companies to protect #teenagers, and why parental and guardian support is incredibly important in our digital-led world. @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social 📝 www.wsj.com/health/welln... (🎨 Madeline McMahon)

An innovative article by Gemma Harvey @geodiverse.bskye.social and colleagues looking into 600 animals and how they profoundly influence Earth surface processes and landscapes. doi.org/10.1073/pnas...

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1/2 Interesting review exploring some youth mental health clinical work/research where the important work of goal setting with the child/young person has taken place (important to ask the child and family what they would like from therapy) doi.org/10.1111/papt...

Excellent study mirroring themes from this qualitative systematic review of reasons young people give for self harm including: identity, peer influences, educational stress, mental ill health, cognitive/neuropsychological, trauma/attachment, internet influences, social media. doi.org/10.2174/2210...

Our large scale mental health in schools trial findings are out now! Lots to dig into, and we’ll have events next month to talk through in more detail.

Thanks for sharing It’s been striking how often the same points come up across these qual studies, how relevant they are for different aspects of MH, and how each study is adding such helpful nuance. For us this was a helpful additional layer of thinking about how gender sits across all this!

1/4 Agree it is important to work with local parents, young people & experts in order to develop culturally relevant materials.

Excellent paper identifying ways to reduce perinatal loneliness. The intervention categorisation could be used for other groups such as children & young people e.g: shared identity social support groups; creative approaches including arts, nature or exercise based & holistic, place based support.

3/14 The following areas are ripe for research in the field of child mental health. They all have a positive literature but few large RCTs as yet @nihr.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @ukri.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social

Mental health problems cast a shadow over young people's lives - one that can last a lifetime. But too many children are going without the support they need to manage their mental health and thrive. As #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek kicks off, here are four key facts about the situation we're facing 👇

Some excellent Art of Medicine seminars to come at York Medical Society in the next few months. [email protected]