For this session we are pleased to welcome Dr. Karen Mansfield, a postdoctoral research scientist from the School Mental Health Project, Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford, to discuss her JCPP Advances paper ‘‘Covid-19 partial school closures and mental health problems: a cross sectional survey of 11,000 adolescents to determine those most at risk’’. https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12021
Authors; Karen L. Mansfield, Danielle Newby, Emma Soneson, Nemanja Vaci, Christoph Jindra, Galit Geulayov, John Gallacher, Mina Fazel.
A panel, comprising paper author Dr. Karen Mansfield, Ellie Costello from Square Peg, Jenny Hair Assistant Headteacher/Looked After Designated Teacher at Becton Hospital School, and Eshal Saijid giving a young person’s lived experience perspective, will discuss the research and its implications with information scientist Douglas Badenoch. This discussion will be facilitated by Andre Tomlin.
Resources
Open Access paper at doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12021
The Mental Health Impact of COVID-19 School Closures – Dr. Karen Mansfield and co-author of the paper Associate Professor Mina Fazel.
Editorial: Do lockdowns scar? Three putative mechanisms through which COVID-19 mitigation policies could cause long-term harm to young people’s mental health Edmund Sonuga-Barke, Pasco Fearon
Open Access paper Adolescent well-being amid the COVID-19 pandemic: Are girls struggling more than boys? Thorhildur Halldorsdottir et al https://doi.org/10.1002/jcv2.12027
Mental Health in Lockdown and its Impact on Children, Adolescents and Families – Podcast Dr. Polly Waite
About #CAMHScampfire
ACAMH’s vision is to be ‘Sharing best evidence, improving practice’, to this end in December 2020 we launched ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’, a free monthly virtual journal club, run in conjunction with André Tomlin. We use #CAMHScampfire on Twitter to amplify the discussion.
Each 1-hour meeting features a new piece of research, which we discuss in an informal journal club session. The focus is on critical appraisal of the research and implications for practice. Primarily targeted at CAMHS practitioners, and researchers, ‘CAMHS around the Campfire’ will be publicly accessible, free to attend, and relevant to a wider audience.
Dr. Karen Mansfield. I am a postdoctoral research scientist interested in solving methodological challenges in the collection, analysis and safe-sharing of data to inform adolescent mental health and wellbeing research. Together with Mina Fazel, I work on a School Mental Health project, coordinating the OxWell online school survey. I also work with NIHR Professor Andrea Cipriani, coordinating and supporting projects adopted by the Informatics and Digital Health theme at Oxford Health’s NIHR Biomedical Research Centre. (Picture and bio from Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford)
Ellie Costello. Ellie’s background was as a producer working in the media. As a therapeutic parent, Ellie’s passions lie in neuroscience, child development, neurobiology and mental health. She has two children with complex needs spanning education, health, mental health and social care which brought her own mental health and blocked care challenges. She works as an Expert by Experience and strategic professional-parent stakeholder informing cross-sector service review, redevelopment and delivery across joint working partners and education. Ellie joined Square Peg CIC as a Director to develop her interest in shifting paradigms to effect cultural and systemic change on behalf of all children, young people and families who experience barriers to school attendance. Ellie advocates social model-thinking, placing trauma-informed practice, relationships and personalisation at the centre of positive, meaningful, sustainable outcomes.