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« Back to NewsDavid Clark and Anke Ehlers win 2024 Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum Knowledge Award for mental health research
28 November 2024
It is the first time that the award, which recognises exceptional achievements in knowledge and innovation, has been awarded for mental health research.
Transforming Childhood Anxiety Treatment
3 October 2024
With one in five children and young people in England experiencing probable mental ill health, the need for accessible and effective mental health treatments has never been more pressing. Professor Cathy Creswell and her team at the Department, in collaboration with NIHR Applied Research Collaboration Oxford and Thames Valley (ARC OxTV) conceived and developed an innovative online intervention for childhood anxiety.
New therapies developed by Oxford experts offer online support for anxiety and post-traumatic stress disorders
31 July 2024
Four internet-based therapies developed by our experts are proving helpful for patients with social anxiety disorder and post-traumatic stress disorders and for children with anxiety disorders.
‘Coming Of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us’ - A Q&A with Lucy Foulkes
29 July 2024
Many congratulations to Dr Lucy Foulkes who has recently published her latest book ‘Coming of Age: How Adolescence Shapes Us’ (Penguin, July 2024)
NICE approves new digital mental health technology developed at the Department for children and young people for use in the NHS
8 February 2023
Online Support and Intervention for Child Anxiety (OSI) was among one of four digital tools recommended to help children and young people with mild to moderate symptoms of anxiety or low mood.
PTSD in healthcare workers during pandemic could be exacerbated by past trauma
29 October 2021
While some of the high rates of post-traumatic stress (PTSD) seen in healthcare workers during the pandemic are specifically COVID-19-related, a more significant number of cases were linked to trauma that occurred earlier in their lives, researchers at the University of Oxford have found.
New Policy Briefing Addresses Mental Health Effects of the Pandemic on Young People
8 October 2021
In the Briefing, a team of researchers at King’s College London and Oxford University highlight the multiple effects that the COVID-19 pandemic has had on children and young people in the UK in their education and daily life, including challenges around social isolation, academic pressures, adjusting to online learning and coping with reopening of schools.
Future-Proofing Mental Health
10 May 2021
UK academics are calling for targets for mental health research in order to meet the healthcare challenges of the next decade. Published today in Journal of Mental Health, researchers set out four overarching goals that will speed up implementation of mental health research and give a clear direction for researchers and funders to focus their efforts when it comes to better understanding the treatment of mental health.