A5016931116- COVID-19 and Mental Health
- Anxiety, Depression, Psychometrics, Treatment, Cognitive Processes
- Psychological Well-being and Life Satisfaction
- COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts
- Mental Health Research Topics
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Identity, Memory, and Therapy
- Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications
- Family and Disability Support Research
- Psychiatric care and mental health services
- Adolescent and Pediatric Healthcare
- Mental Health Treatment and Access
- Perfectionism, Procrastination, Anxiety Studies
King's College London
2020-2024
Manchester Academic Health Science Centre
2021
University of Manchester
2021
King's College School
2020
The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented stress to young people. Despite recent speculative suggestions of poorer mental health in people India since the start pandemic, there have been no systematic efforts measure these. Here we report on content worries Indian adolescents and identify groups who may be particularly vulnerable negative emotions along with reporting impact coronavirus their lives. Three-hundred-and-ten from North (51% male, 12-18 years) reported personal experiences...
Abstract Interventions targeting anhedonia in depression demonstrate encouraging results adults but are lacking for adolescents. Here, we have adapted a brief imagery-based intervention (IMAGINE), which has shown promising reducing symptoms of young people, to focus specifically on (IMAGINE-Positive). We augment positive mental imagery generation with techniques upregulate affect. Eight participants completed the four-session intervention. Data feasibility and acceptability were collected....
Acute mental health inpatient wards have been criticized for being nontherapeutic. The study aimed to test the feasibility of delivering a psychologically informed intervention in these settings. This single-arm evaluated clinical psychologists ward-based psychological service model over 6-month period on two acute wards. Data were gathered assess trial design parameters and gathering patient/staff outcome data. Psychologists able deliver key elements intervention. Baseline staff patient...
Difficulties with prospective mental images are associated adolescent depression. Current treatments mainly focus on verbal techniques to reduce negative affect (e.g. low mood) rather than enhancing positive affect, despite anhedonia being present in adolescents. We investigated the concurrent relationships between vividness of and imagery affect; examined whether moderated impact recent stress (COVID-19-linked stress) affect.2602 young people (12-25 years) completed Prospective Imagery Task...
Abstract Adolescent depression is associated with unhelpful emotional mental imagery. Here, we investigated whether vividness of negative and positive prospective imagery predict affect anhedonia in adolescents. 111 people from Israel completed measures imagery, affect, at two time-points approximately three months apart. Using cross-lagged panel models, showed once ‘concurrent’ (across-variable, within-time) ‘stability’ paths (across-time, within-variable) were estimated, there no...
COVID-19 has significant impacts on young peoples’ lives and emotions. Understanding how people maintain well-being in the face of challenges can inform future mental health intervention development. Here we applied network analysis to data gathered from 2532 (12-25 years) residing UK during pandemic identify structure across crucially, its central defining features. Gender age differences networks were also investigated. Across all participants, items emerged two clusters: 1) optimism,...
This article presents the experience of a qualified psychological wellbeing practitioner (PWP) working in child and adolescent mental health service (CAMHS). It aims to provide insight into adapting adult Improving Access Psychological Therapies (IAPT) model CAMHS context PWP’s this.
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented stress globally. Though less susceptible to severe forms of infection, young people too have suffered psychological impacts. As negative emotions and worries in adolescence can persist, incurring significant healthcare burden, measuring these during the signpost later mental health needs particularly low-resource settings. Here we report on experiences coronavirus its' impact Indian adolescents. Methods: Three-hundred-and-ten from...
Background: The COVID-19 pandemic has posed unprecedented stress to young people. Despite recent speculative suggestions of poorer well-being in people India since the start pandemic, there have been no systematic efforts measure these. Here we report on content worries Indian adolescents and identify groups who may be particularly vulnerable negative emotions.Methods: Three-hundred-and-ten from North (51% male, 12-18 years) reported their personal experiences being infected by coronavirus,...