School-based stress-reduction skills
We are collaborating to design, implement and evaluate school-based mental-health promotion interventions, particularly utilising stress-reduction mind-body skills such as yoga. Mar 24, 2016
Parenting support for kinship carers looking after teenagers
We’ve recently developed and designed a parenting support project. The Care Project is a parenting support programme for kinship carers looking after teenagers. It provides teenager-based parenting skills around connectedness, conflict management and behaviour control. To encourage maximum learning, it utilises a four-part learning process: self-awareness; learning; self-monitoring; and reflection. …
Jane Hartley’s Notes from Mental Health: The Five Year Plan Conference
Isabelle Goldie Director of Development and Delivery at the Mental Health Foundation opened the day by stating that it’s now imperative that we start connecting up mind and body, and that we start addressing mental health promotion in young people. This was echoed by Geraldine Strathdee, National Clinical Director Mental Health in NHS England, stating …
CALL FOR ENTRIES to SCPHRP Spring 2016 magazine
We’re currently planning our next magazine If you have any articles you’d like to send us for the mag, please contact Sam Bain (samantha.bain@ed.ac.uk) or John McAteer (john.mcateer@ed.ac.uk). To read our back issues go here. Mar 9, 2016
Mental Health: Moving Forwards – The Five Year Plan programme
SCPHRP Jane Hartley will be attending a mental health conference which is looking at NHS England’s new five year mental health plan: A new era for mental health care is on the horizon… Mental Health: Moving Forwards – The Five Year Plan will explore how the new national strategy for mental health …
Life of Breath
SCPHRPs Jane Hartley is attending an interdisciplinary symposium, organised by the Centre for Medical Humanities and Anthropology Department at Durham University as part of the Life of Breath project to ‘explore, discuss and gain insight into the perception and experience of breath and breathing practices both historically and cross-culturally’. “I’m …
SCPHRP Bulletin February 2016
Take 5 Minutes to read about recent developments at the Scottish Collaboration for Public Health Research & Policy (SCPHRP). NEWS & EVENTS ‘CONGRATULATIONS’ to Dr Catherine Bromley who successfully defended her PhD thesis ‘Beyond a Boundary – Conceptualising and Measuring Multiple Health Conditions in the Scottish Population’. Well done Catherine!!! We would …
Seven Best Investments for Health Equity: Scotland, rUK* and Canada Compared
On January 27th, SCPHRP Director John Frank was invited to present to the staff of Public Health Ontario — the main provincial agency for applied public health research, in Canada’s most populous province, and also John’s original home. The content of his presentation was “Seven Best Investments for Health Equity: …
A community primary health care initiative
SCPHRP’s Jane Hartley is collaborating with Vicki Cooke at TRE Scotland and medical professionals in Brazil to design and evaluate a community primary health care initiative in Brasilia using the novel stress-reduction technique Tension Release Exercises – TRE. TRE® (Tension, Stress & Trauma Release Exercise) is an innovative series of exercises that assist the …
Health Impacts of Mixed-Tenure Housing Regeneration in Toronto’s Regent Park
Thursday 18th February 2016 James R Dunn, Ph.D. (Jim) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University and a Scientist at the Centre for Research on Inner City Health at St Michael’s Hospital in Toronto. He is the Director of the McMaster Institute for …
