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SUMMARY:Digital Youth: understanding risk\, building resilience and harnes
 sing solutions with young people in the digital world - Prof Ellen Townsen
 d\, University of Nottingham
DTSTART:20221110T123000Z
DTEND:20221110T133000Z
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DESCRIPTION:*Abstract:* Being online and using social media has become int
 egral to young people’s lives and creates both risks as well as opportun
 ities for youth mental health. Key research questions in this space includ
 e how to identify the mechanisms underpinning online mental health harms\,
  which young people are most at risk\, how to build online resilience and 
 create effective online mental health support and interventions.  \nWe fac
 e a youth mental health crisis\, exacerbated by the covid pandemic and ass
 ociated restrictions\, with one in six young people suffering from a menta
 l health disorder with rates of self-harm increasing three-fold over the l
 ast decade [NHS Digital]. Given that around 70% of young people with menta
 l health problems receive no help at all – digital online support and in
 terventions have been seen as part of the solution to increase access to h
 elp. However\, to date\, very few digital interventions and apps have a re
 search evidence base\, and those that do struggle to be implemented in the
  NHS. \nIn this presentation I will outline our 4-year UKRI/MRC funded int
 erdisciplinary Digital Youth research programme and summarize developments
  from two novel tools. I will briefly outline early findings on a project 
 investigating Socially Assistive Robots for emotion regulation in young pe
 ople at risk of self-harm. I will then discuss in depth the development of
  the CaTS-APP\, a novel\, co-created self-harm assessment tool. I will out
 line how Responsible Research Innovation (RRI) and Public and Patient Invo
 lvement (PPI) are embedded in this work.  \n\n\n*Biography:* Professor Ell
 en Townsend holds a B.A. (Hons) from the University of Leeds and a PhD fro
 m the University of Nottingham. Before joining Nottingham as a Lecturer in
  2001 she spent three years as a post-doctoral researcher in the Centre fo
 r Suicide Research in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Ox
 ford. Ellen leads the "Self-Harm Research Group(SHRG)":https://sites.googl
 e.com/view/self-harm-research-group/home in the School of Psychology and i
 s a Visiting Fellow at the Institute of Mental Health in Nottingham. For m
 ore information on Prof Townsend\, please visit: https://www.nottingham.ac
 .uk/psychology/people/ellen.townsend
LOCATION:Herchel Smith Building Seminar Room and on Zoom (contact mho28@me
 dschl.cam.ac.uk) 
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