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Student Mental Health: The Role and Training Needs of Academic Staff

Student Mental Health: The Role and Training Needs of Academic Staff   Student reported mental health and well-being has faced a decline over the past years, leading us to the current national student mental health ‘crisis’. This issue has never been more important than during Covid-19, as new and exacerbated mental health needs in the […]

A guide to supporting families during Covid-19

A guide to supporting families during Covid-19 Families come in all different sizes and forms, and will be meeting the challenges of Covid-19 in their own unique ways. As some schools open this week, a new platform of challenge will be experienced in what emerging from lockdown looks like – as much as our entry […]

Relationships and Support during Covid-19

Relationships and Support during Covid-19   Relationships can be a source of great support through life changing events, yet they can also be put under strain. Since entering the pandemic, I have seen countless articles noting the risk period of Covid-19 for our personal connections and how to cope if you’re in a relationship. As […]

SlowMo Therapy and slowing down Covid-19 stress

A PIONEERING digital therapy for treating paranoia has been expanded to help people manage stress and mental health during the Covid-19 pandemic. Joining the British scientific community’s rally as the coronavirus spread, the scientists behind SlowMo built an easy access webpage (slowmo therapy) for helping people manage stress. It comes after the team completed the […]

Pregnancy and partnership well-being in a pandemic

Pregnancy and partnership well-being in a pandemic I have been working with mums and babies for the last year voluntarily in a perinatal psychotherapy service, working with couples for around five years as a relationship counsellor and am currently 31 weeks pregnant. 7 weeks ago, when the World Health Organisation declared we were in a […]

Student mental health during Covid-19 (and beyond) 

Around the world, the current pandemic is shifting the larger public discourse around improving access to public health resources, and rightly so. Within our immediate communities of family, friends, and neighbours, meanwhile, it has refocused our attention on vulnerable older people and those with physical illnesses who are most at risk. However, there is another […]

Mental and physical well-being resources during the Covid-19 lockdown

Mental and Physical Well-being During the Covid-19 Lockdown   Lockdown has required us to make significant changes to our lives and lifestyles and created a great deal of uncertainty for many people. Those of us working in mental health services have obviously been concerned about how our patients, who are already struggling significantly, will cope […]

Psychological theories about vivid and bizarre dreaming during lockdown

Psychological theories about vivid and bizarre dreaming during lockdown Every night we lay our heads down and drift away into a state of unconsciousness, our muscles entirely paralysed with the exception of eyes, and yet, when we wake we often report experiences of the vivid and bizarre journeys we undertake in our dreams. Since countries […]

Developing the therapeutic relationship remotely 

Developing the therapeutic relationship remotely   With the current ongoing pandemic, many of us are managing consults and therapy sessions remotely. Aside from working for Maudsley Learning I also work as a relationship counsellor and have moved my practice web-based. Here I will consider some streamlined general reflections since moving remote, and in respect of the […]

Covid-19 and sleep: maintaining a healthy cycle during lockdown

With the work-life balance of most individuals shifted due to restrictions regarding Covid-19, many may find themselves faced with difficulty in getting a good night’s rest. After news of placing the country on lockdown came on the 23rd March, #cantsleep began trending on the popular social media platform Twitter. Factors that may be affecting why […]