Dennis Ougrin
@dennisougrin.bsky.social
Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at QMUL
This was a near-miss, unlike many tragedies. If you are a parent, be curious what your children talk to ChatGPT about.
November 7, 2025 at 9:03 AM
This was a near-miss, unlike many tragedies. If you are a parent, be curious what your children talk to ChatGPT about.
A good way to mark World Mental Health Day. Commissioned by the Lancet, our stellar team created this article www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with the accompanying video produced by the Lancet team m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3lJ...
Mental health of children and young people in the WHO Europe region
Most mental health disorders start before adulthood. They are highly prevalent, disabling
and often treatable. This Series paper discusses the current problems that contribute
to the growing child, ad...
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October 10, 2025 at 4:45 PM
A good way to mark World Mental Health Day. Commissioned by the Lancet, our stellar team created this article www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with the accompanying video produced by the Lancet team m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3lJ...
How do you develop quality standards for child and adolescent mental health services? Stakeholder consultations, primarily with young people, are the key eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Frontiers | Development of methods for WHO quality standards for child and youth mental health services to improve quality of care and patient safety in the WHO European region
BackgroundChild and youth mental health care is of varying quality across the WHO European Region, with many settings being low-resourced. To improve and sta...
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October 2, 2025 at 10:40 AM
How do you develop quality standards for child and adolescent mental health services? Stakeholder consultations, primarily with young people, are the key eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
Our group discovered a unique association between the history of sexual abuse self-harm and pain hyposensitivity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Associations between childhood maltreatment, self-harm, and pain sensitivity in care-experienced adolescents living in the UK: a cross-sectional study
Childhood maltreatment is a major public health issue and associated with self-harm in adolescents. Self-harm is the strongest recognised predictor of…
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September 14, 2025 at 6:36 PM
Our group discovered a unique association between the history of sexual abuse self-harm and pain hyposensitivity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
An important contribution from our team showing that art therapy reduces burnout in healthcare professionals. Well done, Megan Tjasink!
August 6, 2025 at 12:16 PM
An important contribution from our team showing that art therapy reduces burnout in healthcare professionals. Well done, Megan Tjasink!
There is a podcast published in the Lancet Primary Care podcast.app/the-lancet-p... about our study showing that a brief digital problem-solving intervention improves depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
The Lancet Primary Care in conversation with by The Lancet Group
<p>Explore the latest primary care research and topics with <em>The Lancet Primary Care In conversation with</em>. Journal editors speak to community members, primary care professionals, academics, an...
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July 24, 2025 at 9:20 AM
There is a podcast published in the Lancet Primary Care podcast.app/the-lancet-p... about our study showing that a brief digital problem-solving intervention improves depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
Reposted by Dennis Ougrin
🆕John Weisz and colleagues report the results of their RCT investigating the effect of a digital problem-solving intervention among Ukrainian youths displaced by war.
Read the Article here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@dennisougrin.bsky.social
Read the Article here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@dennisougrin.bsky.social
Effects of a brief digital problem-solving intervention on depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war: a crossover, randomised controlled trial
Our data suggest that a brief problem-solving DMHI, efficiently implemented in schools,
could reduce internalising symptoms in refugee Ukrainian youths. After context-specific
adaptations, DMHIs could...
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July 18, 2025 at 11:01 AM
🆕John Weisz and colleagues report the results of their RCT investigating the effect of a digital problem-solving intervention among Ukrainian youths displaced by war.
Read the Article here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@dennisougrin.bsky.social
Read the Article here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
@dennisougrin.bsky.social
A brief digital problem-solving intervention improves depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Effects of a brief digital problem-solving intervention on depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war: a crossover, randomised controlled trial
Children and adolescents (hereafter referred to as youths) displaced from their home and country by war face many problems and increased risk of depre…
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July 18, 2025 at 4:40 AM
A brief digital problem-solving intervention improves depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pain threshold is higher in kids with self-harm, but not pain tolerance. This could provide part of the explanation of the link between self-harm and suicide www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Pain threshold and pain tolerance in young people with Self-Injurious Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Pain sensitivity has been proposed as a contributing factor to self-injurious behavior (SIB). Meta-analytic results show that individuals with SIB hav…
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July 17, 2025 at 10:31 AM
Pain threshold is higher in kids with self-harm, but not pain tolerance. This could provide part of the explanation of the link between self-harm and suicide www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Our paper shows that water quality should be prioritised in rebuilding Ukraine after the war
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Poor quality of sewage water in Ukraine: a priority in post-war rebuilding - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Poor quality of sewage water in Ukraine: a priority in post-war rebuilding
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July 6, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Our paper shows that water quality should be prioritised in rebuilding Ukraine after the war
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
www.nature.com/articles/s41...
Suicide risk is hard to predict. Inpatient admissions remain an important marker of suicide risk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
Use of childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns to predict suicide in young people | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core
Use of childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns to predict suicide in young people - Volume 11 Issue 4
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June 20, 2025 at 4:39 PM
Suicide risk is hard to predict. Inpatient admissions remain an important marker of suicide risk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
No evidence that a digital intervention teaching war-affected children self-calming techniques works - an important study calling for research on other strategies rdcu.be/emFbL
Randomized trial testing a self-guided digital mental health intervention teaching calming skills for Ukrainian children
npj Mental Health Research - Randomized trial testing a self-guided digital mental health intervention teaching calming skills for Ukrainian children
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May 19, 2025 at 12:30 PM
No evidence that a digital intervention teaching war-affected children self-calming techniques works - an important study calling for research on other strategies rdcu.be/emFbL
Psychological therapies reduce self-harm, but not mortality in kids acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern. Evidence highlights that therapeutic intervention (TI), such as cognitive behaviour therapy informed treatments, after self-harm lead...
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January 30, 2025 at 3:24 PM
Psychological therapies reduce self-harm, but not mortality in kids acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....