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Recruiting Band 5 Clinical Studies Officer/ Research Assistant! This role is staff & patient facing, delivering research to our mental health, dementia, inpatient & community services across a North East London NHS Foundation Trust (NELFT)! Closing date 5/11! See link for more info ➡️ careers.nelft.nhs.uk/jobs/#!/job/UK…

📢PhD studentship opportunity!📢Interested in finding out if sleep issues contribute to the mortality gap in psychosis with me, Dr Jo Hodgekins 💙, and Benjamin Perry? More details here: tinyurl.com/bdd5cru6 - deadline 10th December! Happy to discuss more with interested applicants.

Concerning findings in our new Mental Health Policy Research Unit paper on ethnic differences in receipt of interventions in Early Intervention Services in England. White British people have substantially higher odds of receiving CBT for psychosis than most other groups. sciencedirect.com/science/articl…

Hey everyone, I need your help! Paul Salkovskis and I are still looking for volunteers to participate in this 20-min online study exploring fear of losing control and anxiety. You can participate here bit.ly/losingcontrols…. Thanks!

Our PPP Team last week presented a quality improvement project on negative symptoms and group CBTp. This was to the CNWL NHS FT trust-wide newly formed Psychosis Special Interest Group - at our recent second meeting! ☺️ Bring on meeting 3!

Just out: intervention development and protocol paper for the FINCH study, in which we have adapted a successful Swiss intervention aimed at reducing repeat compulsory admissions - currently at feasibility trial stage link.springer.com/article/10.118…

📢 Calling all mental health experts! Are you passionate about developing & evaluating mental health interventions? 🧠 We want you on our advisory committee to help shape what we fund! 💪 Paid irregular work, can be done alongside FT job. Deadline Friday wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

To anyone from a middle eastern background living in the UK, please consider completing this brief survey examining perceptions of psychosis. Led by my wonderful PhD student. It only takes 15 -20 minutes. Full UCL ethical approval. Please share if you can! qualtrics.ucl.ac.uk/jfe/form/SV_1U…

Our next Mental Health funding call invites applicants to develop scalable digital interventions for anxiety, depression and psychosis. Here’s what you need to know about the call which launches later this month...️ [1/5]

NEW JOB! SloMo2 will find out how a digitally supported therapy for fear of harm from others is used in the NHS. We're looking for an enthusiastic and compassionate research assistant psychologist to join our team, based at KCL Psychology & NHS Maudsley. Pls get in touch or RT. 🙏

How can we find better ways to intervene early in anxiety, depression and psychosis? We’re funding teams to do just that through developing scalable digital interventions. 💰 Level: £3-7 million 🗓 Deadline: 5 December Find out more 👇 wellcome.org/grant-funding/…

🚨📢Funding call alert!📢🚨 Wellcome's new digital mental health funding call is now LIVE, with the full details here: wellcome.org/grant-funding/… The tl;dr is that we want to fund research to evaluate and further develop scalable digital mental health interventions.

"I was hearing 40 to 50 abusive voices a day. With the help of AVATAR therapy, that went down to 4 or 5." A novel therapy using digital avatars, trialed by King's IoPPN researchers, has shown to effectively reduce distressing voices in #psychosis kcl.ac.uk/news/multi-sit…

What is AVATAR digital therapy? Dr Thomas Ward and Professor Philippa Garety explain how does it works for reducing #psychosis and the results of the multi-site trial by King's College London researchers. Learn more about the therapy and research: kcl.ac.uk/news/multi-sit…

NEW PAPER! How can we harness technology to improve outcomes in mental health? Read our co-produced paper on co-designing digital therapies for psychosis, using SloMoTherapy as a case study. Supported by Wellcome NIHR Maudsley Biomedical Research Centre (BRC) National Institute for Health and Care Research tinyurl.com/mr28u28r

“Flashforwards” future oriented “pictures in the mind’s eye” can be distressing in up to 74% of people w #psychosis. Dr Dr Nithura Sivarajah, Prof Craig Steel Oxford Institute of Clinical Psychology Training & I did a brief therapy case series targeting control of images, published today BABCP journal doi.org/10.1017/S13524…

NEW PAPER! Excellent work led by Rachel Frost - systematic review and meta-analysis of associations between trauma-related beliefs and psychosis symptoms. Findings support targeting trauma-related meanings in therapy to reduce distress. Olivia Collier King's DClinPsy

FINAL CALL! Are you an experienced CBTp supervisor committed to improving care for people with psychosis? We would love you to apply to join the SloMo team! Deadline extended til Sunday 12th Jan. Any queries please get in touch. Thank you!

Digital health tools need user engagement to work well. In this new review/consensus statement, we 1) lack of agreed-upon metrics for engagement, 2) lack of evidence on how better engagement improves outcomes, and 3) lack of standards for user involvement. nature.com/articles/s4174…