Antidepressants, autism diagnosis & self-harm. Elf Nuggets - Oct 2021

Welcome to our first ever #ElfNuggets show! If you prefer, you can watch this Elf Nuggets episode on the Mental Elf YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x6zZrQ45MbQ This show will: - Help mental health practitioners keep up to date with the latest reliable research that they can use in practice - Each month we will discuss three recent studies that we've blogged about on the Mental Elf, which our panel think we should be using in practice Our expert panel - Chair: André Tomlin, Founder, The Mental Elf - Carrie-Ann Black, Mental Health Nurse from Yorkshire, CAMHS Research and Implementation Nurse Lead in South London. Carrie-Ann's job is all about building research capacity and capability across the mental health nurse workforce - Emmeline Lagunes-Cordoba, Psychiatrist from Mexico, where she trained in general adult psychiatry and psychotherapy. Emmeline moved to the UK in 2013 to do a PhD in mental health stigma at KCL. She now works in a crisis team in North London - Becca Read, Clinical Psychologist from Leicestershire. Becca recently completed her clinical psychology doctorate. Now working in the Recovery and Support Team in Richmond General examples of using evidence in every day mental health practice Carrie-Ann talks about a paper that was a catalyst for reviewing physical health needs on her CAMHS inpatient unit. Carney R, Firth J, Pedley R, Law H, Parker S, Lovell K. The clinical and behavioral cardiometabolic risk of children and young people on mental health inpatient units: A systematic review and meta-analysis. Gen Hosp Psychiatry. 2021;70:80-97. doi:10.1016/j.genhosppsych.2021.03.007 https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8135692/ Becca talks about a paper that helped her and her early intervention in psychosis team colleagues think through the feelings of disengagement felt by young people in their service and how they could respond: Davidson L, Roe D, Andres-Hyman R, Ridgway P. Applying stages of change models to recovery from serious mental illness: contributions and limit