1/14 The Princess of Wales today suggests that child mental health prevention is a healthy way forward by supporting the development of social and emotion skills. This is a thread to ask what research is going on in this space www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... - ThreadSky

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1/14 The Princess of Wales today suggests that child mental health prevention is a healthy way forward by supporting the development of social and emotion skills. This is a thread to ask what research is going on in this space https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c05l883gp46o.amp

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barrywright.bsky.social•24 days ago

2/14 Research on child mental health support and interventions needs to broaden its horizons. Services have tended to prioritise interventions often based on adult models such as medication and CBT. Should we have more developmentally appropriate, child friendly interventions? What would these be?

barrywright.bsky.social•24 days ago

3/14 The following areas are ripe for research in the field of child mental health. They all have a positive literature but few large RCTs as yet @nihr.bsky.social @nihrarcs.bsky.social @ukri.org @wellcometrust.bsky.social

barrywright.bsky.social•24 days ago

4/14 plugging children into social networks and social prescribing has a lot of support to improve child mental health but more research needed https://socialprescribingacademy.org.uk/media/lri

barrywright.bsky.social•24 days ago

5/14 Getting children and young people back into activities that boost their self esteem appears to be helpful and there are now some RCTs underway https://doi.org/10.1111/papt.12121

barrywright.bsky.social•24 days ago

6/14 Physical activity interventions also seem to have some benefits for children’s emotional well-being but more research is needed doi:10.1001/jamapediatrics.2022.5090

barrywright.bsky.social•24 days ago

7/14 Access to the countryside including green spaces (but also rivers and the sea) has been suggested to have a number of benefits in child mental health but there have been no large RCTs https://icasp.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/sites/13/2023/08/Nature-based-interventions-for-health-and-wellbeing_evidence-summary-2023.pdf

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