suicide - National Elf Service
WEBSuicide is the act of intentionally ending your life. There are three levels of intervention in suicide; 1) universal 2) selective and 3) indicated. Universal interventions target everyone in a defined population. They aim to increase awareness about suicide, remove barriers to care, promote help-seeking and encourage protective factors. Some examples of universal interventions include school ...
About The National Elf Service
WEBThe National Elf Service is owned and managed by Minervation Ltd; an Oxford University spin-out company founded by information scientists Douglas Badenoch and André Tomlin, who have been building evidence-based healthcare websites since the early 1990s.. Douglas and André share a vision for making evidence-based research more accessible and usable for busy health and social care professionals.
training - National Elf Service
WEBSarah Knowles reports on a survey and brief intervention study of the National Elf Service across the Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust, which sheds some light on how best to increase research uptake in mental health professionals.
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WEBJun 1 2022. Posted by. Andre Tomlin. The 50th Annual BABCP Conference took place in London on 20-23 July 2022. In this podcast, André Tomlin and colleagues from the Mental Elf #BeyondTheRoom team, speak to organisers and speakers from the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapies Annual Conference.
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WEB2024. The National Elf Service needs 2 part-time Elf Coordinators to join our team and support us in the commissioning and editing of Mental Elf blogs. This opportunity will suit a PhD student working in a mental health setting, but may also be of interest to people with lived experience, practitioners or trainees working in mental health.
Digital self-help for bulimia recovery: encouraging results for …
WEBAug 23, 2024 · Strengths and limitations. Overall, this is a strong paper underpinned by a controlled and systematic methodology, with measures that are well validated and widely used.The inclusion of both 6- and 12-month follow-ups enables conclusions to be drawn on whether the effects from the intervention can be maintained in the long-term, which is important given high relapse rates in EDs following ...
self-harm - National Elf Service
WEBself-harm. Self-harm is not usually an attempt at taking our own life, but a way of expressing deep emotional feelings, such as low self-esteem. It is also a way to cope with traumatic events or situations, such as the death of a loved one, or an abusive relationship. Self-harm is not an illness, it is an expression of personal distress.
Bipolar Disorder - National Elf Service
WEBBipolar, otherwise known as manic depression, now exists largely within common consciousness and understanding, thanks to high profile stigma-busting publicity. Characterised by episodic shifts in a person’s mood (between manic and depressed states), as well as their energy and activity levels, which can significantly impact their daily ...
The Mental Elf - National Elf Service
WEBAna Veic looks at an updated systematic review which suggests that patients with psychosis display cognitive difficulties very early in the disease process, and concludes this variation in cognitive function should prompt individual clinical assessments to optimise care.
Young people seek help mental health - nationalelfservice.net
WEBJul 15, 2021 · The COVID pandemic may further distort the picture but figures from July 2020 estimate that over 21% of young people aged 17 to 22 years with a probable, and almost 14% with a possible mental health disorder decided not to seek help (NHS Digital, 2020). The process of help-seeking requires the capability, motivations and opportunities to ...