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The MY-CATS team are very sad to be saying goodbye to Natascha Niekamp (she/her). Thank you for all you have done for us and we all wish you the very best of luck in your clinical psychology training with Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training

What should we name the MY_CATS Cat? These are the top 4 choices from the TOPIC Research Group but we want you to help us decide! 🐱

Thank you to everyone who voted. Our MY-CATS cat is now called..........KAJA! 🎉

We hope everyone is enjoying the lovely sunny weather 🌞 The MY-CATs team have been busy this week welcoming newly recruited families into the study, continuing to support families using OSI and doing assessments for families who have reached the 12 month mark of the project.

We are pleased to be working with 865 families across the MY-CATS project - thank you all so much!

Its #WorldMentalHealthDay and #MentalHealthResearchMatters have launched their new campaign video. Check it out below! 👇 Dont forget to visit their website for more information, including ways to get involved: bit.ly/3EvFUZw

Some of the MY-CATS Study team were able to attend the Big Emerging Minds Summit this week! Catch up with some of the thoughts, reflections and live tweeting here - Emerging Minds Network

Hi everyone 👋 We hope you are having a good week! The MY-CATS team have been busy collecting follow-up data from our families and schools. This allows us to understand how they are finding the process, make improvements and increase the validity of our research.

The MY-CATS team have been getting involved in the #MentalHealthResearcherMatters campaign this week! Why does Mental Health Research Matter to you? ✍️

Happy Holidays from all of the MY-CATS team!

MY-CATs supports #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 2023 and Place2Be in their great work encouraging us all to keep connecting and talking to each other #letsconnect

This week the MY-CATS team are busy completing 1 year follow up interviews and questionnaires with schools and parents. This stage of the project is so important to collect results data and we love hearing your feedback.

What does the ✨dream school✨ for good #mentalhealth look like? 🏫 At our Emerging Minds Network workshop, we asked young people, parents, educators, practitioners & researchers. Now Leanne Walker 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ has created this INCREDIBLE illustration of the ideas! Please share widely 🔁

We're nearing the end of the 3rd batch of parent interviews! 🧑‍🤝‍🧑 Thank-you to all the parents and carers we have spoken to so far! Any parents and carers that haven't been able to book in an interview yet, its not too late. Just reply to our texts or emails to get booked in 📲

We hope everyone had a lovely Easter weekend! The team is back and finishing off interviews before the next round starts in June☀️

Our team are working hard finalising their presentations ahead of the World Congress of Cognitive and Behavioural Therapies in Korea next week. We can't wait to share our learnings with everyone! #wccbt2023

It's great to be able to share our work with international colleagues. Well done Cathy and Gemma! #wccbt2023

Meet the MY-CATs team! Natasha is a research assistant who uses reflexive thematic analysis to explore how children, parents and teachers found taking part in the project. Natasha says "the best part of my role is giving people a space to talk about what's important to them."

Meet the team! Here is our research assistant Chloe presenting a poster at the recent #BABCP2023 conference using MY-CATs data to evaluate mental health practices for KS1 children in primary schools

Meet the team! Our Research Assistant Beth used MY-CATs data to identify symptom trends in presentations of separation anxiety. Here she is presenting her findings at the #BABCP2023 conference last week!