From sensitive screening to staff supervision, the message is simple: ⏱️ time matters.
Time to listen, time to process, time to reflect.

Read the blog to explore how perinatal services can make trauma-informed care a reality:
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We’ll be providing live coverage of the 3 talks in the morning session, which focus on the #DigitalYouth projects and their progress.

We’ll also share insights from the keynotes and panel discussions, which focus on digital mental health policy, and moving from research to implementation 💡

Don’t miss this opportunity to…

🧠 Hear from leading experts in child and adolescent mental health, including Professor Amy Orben and Professor Cathy Creswell

💡 Discover key findings from the #DigitalYouth programme

🗣️ Be part of the network shaping the future of digital mental health initiatives

Postpartum anxiety affects bonding, infant development, and long-term wellbeing.

This new review calls for clearer definitions, better tools, and more diverse studies to help families get the support they need.

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Seed-based brain connectivity helped one ML model tell bipolar and depression apart, linked to reward and memory regions.

But accuracy was modest (66%), and variability in fMRI methods may limit clinical use.

Read the full blog 👉 buff.ly/ZCn9WJT

#BipolarDisorder #Depression #AI #Neuroimaging

Researchers think pro-inflammatory bacterial pathways might help explain mental health risks in pregnancy, but we’ll need replication and stronger causal evidence first.

Read more in our blog today : buff.ly/dhvtgP8

No overall microbiome diversity link, but specific bacterial shifts raise questions about inflammation and causality.

Could future perinatal care include gut microbiome screening? 👶

Read our new blog for a summary of this important new research www.nationalelfservice.net/mental-healt...

Imagery-focused therapy helps people understand and transform their mental images, using safe place imagery, rescripting, and more.

💭 70% of people with psychosis experience distressing intrusive images, yet therapy rarely targets them.

Imagery-focused therapy (tested in the iMAPS-2 trial) could change that, offering new ways to reduce distress and support recovery: buff.ly/jbM0TRo

#Psychosis #MentalHealthResearch #CBTp

Respiratory disease rarely features in physical health guidance for people with SMI, but it should. Let’s start asking:
🌟 Should annual reviews inc respiratory screening?
🌟 How do poverty & pollution shape risk?
🌟 What would equitable care look like?

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#MentalHealth #HealthInequality

And finally here's a summary of this impressive KiVa anti-bullying work led by Lucy Bowes #ReSETMentalHealth

Lucy expresses disappointment that they found no evidence for impact on (teaching reported) internalizing or externalizing symptoms #ReSETMentalHealth

This is not uncommon for anti-bullying interventions says Lucy, citing the 2022 Guzman Holst systematic review in JCPP