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'Empty, alone, detached and misunderstood鈥�: The importance of loneliness in understanding and improving young people鈥檚 mental health
On 10th March 2021 we ran a webinar on loneliness and mental health in young people as part of the听果冻影院 Catalyst seminar series, which is intended to spark fresh thinking and debate, featuring cutting-edge 果冻影院 research relevant for children and young people鈥檚 mental health and facilitating new connections between scientists working in different disciplines.
Four speakers from LSIMHRN gave 10-minute talks covering qualitative psychological, quantitative epidemiological, and clinically relevant approaches. These were followed by short responses from a panel representing clinical psychology, cognitive neuroscience, epidemiology and health care, and lived experience expertise.
Speakers:
- Professor Sonia Johnson, Professor of Social and Community Psychiatry and LSIMHRN joint-lead, will give an overview of the Network and will chair the webinar.
- Sam Fardghassemi, PhD student in Psychology and Language Sciences, 果冻影院, and LSIMHRN Early Career Researcher will speak on 鈥楾he Causes and Experiences of Loneliness from the Perspective of Young People in London's Most Deprived Areas鈥�
- , Postdoctoral Research Associate in the听听at King鈥檚 College London, and LSIMHRN Early Career Researcher will speaker on 鈥楢 longitudinal twin study of loneliness and victimisation from childhood to young adulthood.鈥�
- , Research Fellow in the Division of Psychiatry 果冻影院 and LSIMHRN Coordinator, will speak on 鈥楲oneliness as an active ingredient to prevent or alleviate anxiety and depression in young people鈥�
Panel members:
- Chair:听Professor Essi Viding, Professor of Developmental Psychopathology in Psychology and Language Sciences 果冻影院, and LSIMHRN Co-Investigator.
- Professor Roz Shafran, Chair in Translational Psychology in the 果冻影院 GOS Institute of Child Health, and LSIMHRN Co-Investigator.
- Professor Sarah Garfinkel, 果冻影院 Institute of Cognitive Neuroscience and LSIMHRN member
- ,听听and 果冻影院 Institute of Epidemiology & Health Care
- Helina Tadesse听(LSIMHRN Co-Production Group)
- Lizzie Mitchell听(Loneliness as an Active Ingredient Lived Experience Advisory Group
