The Mental Elf

Do you want a brief monthly update about the latest reliable and important #MentalHealth research? Sign up to our new, free email newsletter. It's your monthly dose of mental health research, evidence, and impact. 📧 national-elf-service.kit.com/ce2d72e981

Follow #DigitalYouth all day today on Bluesky bsky.app/hashtag/Digita… How can we better support young people’s mental health in a digital world?

Pleased to return to Twitter/X to promote a recently published article in The Lancet Psychiatry. Our team recently demonstrated (via meta-analysis) prospective, longitudinal relationships between negative family dynamics and self-harm and suicidality in children and adolescents.

📖 Full paper (open access): 👉 elfi.sh/self-help-guid… #GuidedSelfHelp #PWPs #CWPs #NHSmentalhealth #TherapyTools #SelfHelp #SteppedCare

🧠 Helps you reflect on your skills & fill any gaps 😐 Gives strategies for low client engagement 🤝 Offers a supervision form to get more out of sessions 🔄 Explores anxiety and depression together and how to adapt support 📢 Promotes shared learning to improve outcomes for all

🧭 GUIDED SELF-HELP 🛠️ It’s widely used in NHS Talking Therapies — but are we giving PWPs the tools to do it well? 👇 THREAD

💡 New hope for difficult-to-treat depression Free 1-hour webinar on: 💊 Meds 🧠 Psychotherapies ⚡ Neuromodulation 🍄 Psychedelics 🌱 Diet & exercise 📅 Mon 6 Oct, 11–12 BST #DifficultToTreatDepression #TreatmentResistantDepression 🎟️ lqd.eventbrite.co.uk

Mental Elf Monthly for August 2025 is now LIVE Catch August’s most-read blogs, from trauma to CBT harms, and book your free spot at our difficult-to-treat depression webinar. national-elf-service.kit.com/posts/mental-e…

Heading off to Liverpool for #BIGSPD25? 🎧 Listen to our @BIG_SPD podcast en route and get yourself in the right headspace. Great conversations and lots of learning from Maxine Dennis, Mick McKeown, Michaela Swales and Jenifer Dylan. youtube.com/watch?v=03_rEw…

🚀 Turn your mental health research into real-world impact. 📲 We help researchers share evidence through social media, podcasts, videos, webinars and more. ⏰ Time for some #ElfHelp? nationalelfservice.net/disseminate-yo…

Are you an early career researcher looking to build a career in applied mental health research? This #Mentalhealthawareness week, the NIHR is highlighting how the Mental Health Research Initiative (MHRI) has helped build mental health research capacity, improve diversity in research, and create clear pathways to career development. We’ve spoken to researchers across NIHR career development programmes including the regional NIHR Applied Research Collaborations, Three Schools’ Mental Health Programme, and the GROW Researcher Development Programme. Watch the video to find out more. youtu.be/BRiTN_NspH8 Learn more about the programmes. nihr.ac.uk/mental-health-…

Great to talk to @Mental_Elf about this crucial work. It’s with this crucial funding @NIHRresearch that we have been able to do so much in our inclusivity workstream @BipolarAtRisk @YMHRU_UK @GMMH_NHS working together for #inclusive recruitment of #youngpeople in research

Find out more about MHRI collaborations by visiting the NIHR website nihr.ac.uk/mental-health-… #MentalHealthResearchMatters #MentalHealthCollaboration #InterdisciplinaryResearch #TransdisciplinaryResearch

The NIHR Three Schools’ Mental Health programme has supported over 80 awards working collaboratively across primary care, social care, and public health.

Partnerships between researchers, clinicians, patients & local communities are essential for producing research that's useful in the real world. The #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek theme is COMMUNITY. 🧵 THREAD #MentalHealthResearch #Collaboration youtube.com/watch?v=o2aWk3…