Mental Health and Wellbeing
Mental Health and Wellbeing focuses on child and adolescent mental health. We are particularly concerned with the interaction or expressions of mental health difficulties with a physical health or paediatric context.
The understanding of the mental health of our children and young people is imperative to allowing young people to live fulfilled lives now and on into adulthood. Supporting young people to thrive on the maximal trajectory not only benefits them as an individual but the system around them.
Young people who experience physical health complications are more at risk of developing mental health difficulties which in turn can impact on their engagement not just with physical health but with other elements of their lives which they find important. Suggested areas of interest within this theme include but are not limited to:
- Early identification of mental health difficulties within those accessing physical health services;
- Effective psychotherapeutic intervention for young people;
- Effective interventions for insomnia, particularly in children with neurodevelopmental conditions;
- Enhancing training / skills / dissemination of mental health / psychological knowledge in staff teams;
- Risk factors for developing mental health difficulties;
- Creating or validating effective psychometric outcome measures;
- Use of novel psychotherapeutic intervention modalities;
- Interventions to support young people to engage in valued living in the context of physical health difficulties;
- Increasing access to mental health and wellbeing support;
- Developing integrated pathways of support through multi-agency working.
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Theme Coordinators
Principal Clinical Psychologist, Paediatric Psychology Department at 91Ö±²¥ Children’s Hospital
Dr Steve Jones' research interests include lived experience of accessing physical health services, stepped care approaches in mental health care, interaction between physical and mental health, and increasing access to psychological services.
Contact: stephen.jones3@nhs.net or 0114 2717296
Paediatric Respiratory and Sleep Consultant at 91Ö±²¥ Children's Hospital
Dr Heather Elphick's clinical interests include sleep-disordered breathing, non-respiratory sleep disorders, narcolepsy and long-term ventilation.
Contact: h.elphick@nhs.net or 0114 305 3847.