Does it matter whether digital CBT for students is guided by a therapist?
Nurture-U ran a trial with 650 students. The answer was surprising. 📱
Free webinar Mon 15 June: buff.ly/5NToUP0
Most universities react to student mental health problems. Very few try to prevent them.
Lucy Robinson on why that needs to change and why there is now evidence that it can. 🌱
Free webinar Mon 15 June: buff.ly/5NToUP0
What is the most important thing a mental health literacy course can teach students?
Lucy Robinson has a beautifully simple answer in this Nurture-U clip.
Free webinar on Mon 15 June to find out more: buff.ly/5NToUP0
Not all students start from the same place.
Ro Calver, Nurture-U student researcher, on what universities can do to support students from lower income backgrounds. 🌱
Free webinar Mon 15 June: buff.ly/5NToUP0
In the 1970s, Jerome Motto's caring letters reduced suicide deaths. A new meta-analysis of 36 RCTs finds their descendants (brief interventions and contacts) reduce re-attempts too. 🕊️ Mechanisms still unclear. #SuicidePrevention #MentalHealth buff.ly/fIrR4ny
Did a mental health literacy course improve students' mental health?
Not exactly, but it stopped them getting worse. That's still a big deal.
Lucy Robinson explains...
Free webinar Mon 15 June: buff.ly/5NToUP0
Smoking cessation RCT: Approach Bias Modification didn't beat standard care.
The trial was likely underpowered, NICE is exploring digital cessation tools, and implementation may be the real barrier. Meta-analysis needed.
buff.ly/ujEo36Y
#SmokingCessation #ClinicalTrials
Speakers on student mental health research and practice: Ed Watkins, Lucy Robinson, Jemima Dooley, Gareth Hughes (Student Minds), Sally Ingram MBE, Juliet Foster (KCL) and student rep Jay Bate.
Mon 15 June, 11am. Free. 🎙️
Book your place: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/what-unive...
Or wherever you get your podcasts:
🎵 Spotify: buff.ly/R7SMXwZ
🎙️ Apple Podcasts: buff.ly/hv4Scb3