The Mental Elf

Helen Adams from the Geography department at King's College London and Victoria Williamson from the King’s Centre for Military Health Research, help preview the Resilience to Transformation Workshop taking place today, which aims to improve the response to violence against women and its impact on mental health.

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Sarah and Amy, Mental Health Nurses, talking to Vanessa Garrity about safety planning as part of the Zero Suicide conference, 2019.

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Dr Charlotte Hanlon focusing on differences between Global South and North, and challenges for integrating mental health into primary care.

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Prof Crick Lund talks about the efforts of integrating mental health into primary care in LMICs

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Prof Ricardo Araya, director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, a collaboration between the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience, King’s College London and the London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine, introduces the one-day Conference "Road to Global Mental Health", which mark its 10th anniversary, focusing on global mental health research projects, education engagements and overall achievements from 2009 to 2019.

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João Goulão, Director General of SICAD (the Portuguese Service for Addictive Behaviours and Dependencies) tells us about the history of drug decriminalisation in Portugal.

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Prof Michael Farrell talks about the new Drug Use series published in The Lancet, which says that 20th century drug views are no longer fit for purpose, and brings together the best available evidence to inform future policy and practice.https://www.thelancet.com/series/drug-use

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Robert West, Professor of Health Psychology at the UCL Dept of Behavioural Science and Health, talks about tobacco harm reduction, closing the gap between research and practice, and reducing the stigma of addiction.

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Ruben Van Beek from the Trimbos Institute talks about his research using ecological momentary assessment to gather drug use data from young people via a smartphone app.

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Meryem Grabski and Jon Waldron from the UCL Clinical Psychopharmacology Unit talking about their survey of drug use in clubbers and festival goers.

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