Objective Measures or Subjective Measures? In this week’s blog, we take a look at the difference between objective and subjective measures in capturing the impact of early life trauma on mental health. Psychological traumas are typically defined as experiences that cause actual or potential harm…
The Anti-Bullying Alliance, a coalition of various institutions and individuals hosted by the National Children’s Bureau, has organised various events and activities happening this week. These activities focus on initiating meaningful conversations about bullying, finding concrete means to address this issue, and providing useful tools to help support children and…
To whom it may concern, Being back to working from home is stressful enough without having to remember all the intricacies of pandemic email etiquette. The things that became second nature to us during the dark days of 2020 were blissfully forgotten as soon as that first dose of Pfizer…
In this blog, placement students Steven and Prateek write about students’ experiences of anxiety during the first lockdown in Malaysia. As we complete one year since the announcement of the first nationwide lockdown, we can see how the pandemic has resulted in the radical change of our daily lives….
In this blog Prof Thalia Eley shares some reflections on the difficulties of balancing life and an academic career in the context of a chronic condition. We think much of what she has learned may apply to those finding themselves slow to recover from Covid.
2020 has thrown the world a lot of curve balls. One of them is the need to adapt the way we engage and learn from each other to a remote format. The EDITLab’s newest student, Elisavet Palaiologou, shares her experience of starting a Master’s course in the middle of a…
As we approach the halfway point of the UK’s second lockdown, EDIT Lab members Ellen and Jess reflect on the strategies that have and haven’t worked for them while working from home in 2020.
In the last EDIT Lab blog post, Jess interviewed four mental health clinicians about the way in which the COVID-19 pandemic might be influencing symptoms of anxiety of depression. In this blog post, she continues the conversation with Dr Georgina Krebs, Dr Victoria Rodriguez, Dr Evengelos Vassos and Dr Richard…
The COVID-19 pandemic has changed every aspect of life as we know it. But how have these changes impacted us? There is an urgent need for research exploring this.
A few weeks ago, I attended the mental health first aid (MHFA) training day (see Molly’s post), a one-day training course available to all King’s College London staff. The course is designed to foster discussion about spotting and supporting mental health issues in peers and colleagues. However, what the course…
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