A ground-breaking new research collaboration launches today to transform mental health and wellbeing support received by children and young people who have social work involvement. The collaboration is led by Dr Robbie Duschinsky, head of the Applied Social Science Group at the Primary Care Unit. Parents and young people with experience of the care sector […]
Multimorbidity and mental health services – a combined challenge?
Blog by Dr Duncan Edwards, NIHR Doctoral Research Fellow and GP Much is made of the need to adapt health services for patients with multimorbidity, and much is made of the need to improve struggling mental health services. They’re often presented as separate challenges. News stories can conjure up images of older patients with multiple […]
‘All psychologists want to solve the secret of their history’: Professor Judith Solomon discusses her work on attachment
Professor Judith Solomon holds a Visiting Research Fellowship in the Department of Public Health and Primary Care at the University of Cambridge. She is known for her research and theory-building on attachment and caregiving, including the introduction of the disorganised attachment classification and the first longitudinal study of infants in separated and divorced families. With Carol […]
Evolutionary hypotheses and early human development: symposium with Jonathan Hill, University of Reading
Dr Robbie Duschinsky, head of the Applied Social Science Group at the Cambridge Primary Care Unit, invites you to the Inaugural Annual Symposium of the Group ‘Evolutionary hypotheses and early human development: findings from the Wirral Child Health and Development Study’ with Jonathan Hill, Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, University of Reading Monday, 10th […]
All risks are equal, but some risks are (apparently) more equal than others…
by Dr Collette Isabel Stadler, Academic Clinical Fellow at the Primary Care Unit, University of Cambridge and GP Registrar Last month, The Pulse journal published alarming figures obtained from 15 mental health trusts in the UK, revealing how access to Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS) is becoming increasingly restricted. In 2015, only […]