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WEBThe Social Care Elf has quickly become one of the leading sources of bite-sized summaries of relevant, reliable social care research. The Mental Elf is really the best thing for education in mental health and evidence-based treatment on the Internet right now. Fantastic, timely, thorough, unbiased work.
Adolescents with disabilities at higher risk of self-harm, but ...
WEB12 hours ago · Self-harm is a global public health problem (Hawton et al., 2003). In England, approximately 200,000 adolescents aged 12 to 17 engage in self-harming behaviour every year without receiving clinical support and additionally, around 21,000 adolescents seek medical treatment following self-harm incidents (Geulayov, et al., 2018; Morgan et al., 2017; Patalay & Gage, 2019).
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WEBJun 1 2022. Posted by. Andre Tomlin. The 50th Annual BABCP Conference took place in London on 20-23 July 2022. In this podcast, André Tomlin and colleagues from the Mental Elf #BeyondTheRoom team, speak to organisers and speakers from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies Annual Conference.
training - National Elf Service
WEBSarah Knowles reports on a survey and brief intervention study of the National Elf Service across the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, which sheds some light on how best to increase research uptake in mental health professionals.
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WEBThe National Elf Service is owned and managed by Minervation Ltd; an Oxford University spin-out company founded by information scientists Douglas Badenoch and André Tomlin, who have been building evidence-based healthcare websites since the early 1990s.. Douglas and André share a vision for making evidence-based research more accessible and usable for busy health and social care professionals.
The Learning Disabilities Elf - National Elf Service
WEBRachel Allan and Tom Crossland present the recent NICE guidance on mental health problems in people with learning disabilities, and comment on how useful these new recommendations are for people with learning disabilities and their care givers.
Depression - National Elf Service
WEBDepression is characterised as episodes of sadness, loss of interest and pleasure, often including feelings of low self-worth. Depression can also include a range of physiological symptoms, such as fatigue, pain, diminished appetite, lack of interest in sex, disturbed sleep, and poor concentration. The World Health Organisation estimates that ...
suicide - National Elf Service
WEBSuicide is the act of intentionally ending your life. There are three levels of intervention in suicide; 1) universal 2) selective and 3) indicated. Universal interventions target everyone in a defined population. They aim to increase awareness about suicide, remove barriers to care, promote help-seeking and encourage protective factors. Some examples of universal interventions include school ...
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WEB2024. The National Elf Service needs 2 part-time Elf Coordinators to join our team and support us in the commissioning and editing of Mental Elf blogs. This opportunity will suit a PhD student working in a mental health setting, but may also be of interest to people with lived experience, practitioners or trainees working in mental health.
The Mental Elf - National Elf Service
WEBAna Veic looks at an updated systematic review which suggests that patients with psychosis display cognitive difficulties very early in the disease process, and concludes this variation in cognitive function should prompt individual clinical assessments to optimise care.