NewsJanuary 2019 - Children's four big ideas for their early school adjustment - read about our newest research here!
December 2018 - Post-natal depression in dads and links to their teenage daughters - new research from the pPOD team here. October 2018 - Studying parent-infant interactions at the University of Gdańsk, Poland - read about it on our blog here. July 2018 - “Daddy Blues: Postnatal Depression and Fatherhood” from Mark Williams - Paul's thoughts here. November 2017 - Thoughts from the CNWL Research Conference 2017 here. July 2017 – Read pPOD team’s thoughts on the International Attachment Conference 2017 here. July 2017 - Marina and Rebecca attend the International ESCAP Congress in Geneva – read about it here! June 2017 - We celebrate International Fathers’ Mental Health Day with a blog here. May 2017 - Happy Start presented their research at NELFT R&D Day – read about it here. Rocking out in Austin: SRCD 2017 Biennial Meeting blog can be found right here. The pPOD team were equally inspired on day 2 at MQ as day 1. Read all about the talks they heard here. Check out day 1 at the MQ conference! A brief overview of the fantastic mental health research taking place across the globe! Blog found here Two of the Healthy Start, Happy Start interveners have been blogging and presenting about being involved in a clinical research study. Find out more here. The team attended the President's Awards for Excellence in Societal Engagement last night. Find out here how they got on. Ellen has written a blog about research investigating the effects of cannabis use during pregnancy. Check out the Mental Elf blog here. How does the 'Future in Mind' plan support Mental Health Services for children and adolescents with Learning Disability. Find out more here. Read highlights here from the collaborative 'Attachment Masterclass' pPOD ran with NOCLOR Jill has been working in Queensland, find out more about her work here. A bit more from SRIP can be found here - very exciting to hear all this research about the perinatal period. Click here to read about day 1 @ SRIP When MIT met Imperial. Read all about their research collaberations here. Celebration Time! 100 families in the Healthy Start, Happy Start study! Find out more here. We have been very busy training interveners in VIPP-SD for the HSHS study! See where we have been working here. Highlights from the Begin Before Birth conference can be found here. Check out what the pPOD team have been up to at the WAIMH conference: day 1 and 2 blog found here. Find out about what went here in Whittington Health NHS Trust on International Clinical Trials day pPOD have been visiting Leiden to link in with our colleagues about triadic interactions. Check out the blog here. New paper : The power of couple focused approaches in the perinatal period by pPOD’s Dr Camilla Rosan and Ellen Grimas discussing the need for better parental support in the perinatal period, including effective engagement with fathers. Check it out here Blog update: "What Causes Wellness? Research Priorities for Children and Young People". The pPOD team attended a Noclor event in March in which Sir Harry Burns reflected upon ‘wellbeing’ and the detrimental effect societal problems can have on the health of entire communities. Click here to read more, from pPODs newest member. |
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Current projects
Healthy Start, Happy Start
Healthy Start, Happy Start is a research study of a programme that aims to try to help parents with their children’s behaviour and development. The programme aims to help parents to understand better their child’s communication and behaviour and to learn different ways of reacting. This is done through play and interaction sessions, where we meet with the parents and child and try out different ways of responding to common situations. We record these sessions and then look at the recording with parents, discussing it as we go along.
Healthy Start, Happy Start is a research study of a programme that aims to try to help parents with their children’s behaviour and development. The programme aims to help parents to understand better their child’s communication and behaviour and to learn different ways of reacting. This is done through play and interaction sessions, where we meet with the parents and child and try out different ways of responding to common situations. We record these sessions and then look at the recording with parents, discussing it as we go along.
The ACORN Study
The ACORN study is a research study developing a group programme which aims to help reduce anxiety and stress in pregnant women. This group programme is for both pregnant women and their partners and involves three group sessions led by midwives. The purpose of this research is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering this group intervention to reduce levels of anxiety in pregnant women. We are currently in the recruitment phase of this study and plan to recruit 60 women and their partners, where possible, to review the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention, when compared to standard NHS treatment.
The ACORN study is a research study developing a group programme which aims to help reduce anxiety and stress in pregnant women. This group programme is for both pregnant women and their partners and involves three group sessions led by midwives. The purpose of this research is to assess the feasibility and acceptability of delivering this group intervention to reduce levels of anxiety in pregnant women. We are currently in the recruitment phase of this study and plan to recruit 60 women and their partners, where possible, to review the feasibility and acceptability of this intervention, when compared to standard NHS treatment.