Mental health, neurodevelopment, & Special Educational Needs and Disability (SEND)
Access to services related to adolescent mental health
This project aims to:
Understand whether mental health services are more accessible for some teenagers than others
Guide strategies for improving access and targeting of mental health-related services by identifying which groups of young people with mental health needs access services in crisis, or do not access services at all.
Identify which factors enable earlier access to mental health-related services.
This project is led by Dr Dan Lewer and Dr Ruth Blackburn (UCL) and is funded by the Children and Families Policy Research Unit.
Risk factors for severe mental health outcomes among young people: a national cohort study
This research aims to inform the evidence base to help services identify who is at the greatest risk of severe mental health difficulties by addressing the following research question:
In English state secondary school pupils, which educational and social factors are associated with:
Psychiatric related attendance to A&E after year 11?
Unplanned psychiatric-related inpatient admissions after year 11?
This project is led by Lucy Goldsmith, Research Fellow at the UCL Mental Health Policy Research Unit.
Completed studies.
The HOPE Study
The HOPE Study (Health Outcomes of young People throughout Education) investigated the impact of adjustments for special educational needs and disability (SEND) on children’s health and aimed to provide evidence for the impact of different types of SEND provisions on children's health and educational outcomes, and to explore if lack of SEND support negatively influences children's development.
The study is completed. It was led by Prof Ruth Gilbert (UCL) and was funded by NIHR.