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Maria Loades

@marialoades.bsky.social

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Clinical Psychologist, Professor & Researcher at University of Bath - passionate about helping young people live thrive #singlesessioninterventions #scalable #LMICs

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Nov 25

My research group, based at the University of Bath, is spotLight on Adolescent Mood Problems (LAMP). We are working on improving access to evidence based mental health help for young people (age 13-25).

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Eleanor Chatburn @eleanorchats.bsky.social · Jul 8

If you fancy learning more about mixed methods during your lunch hour, we still have plenty of spaces. Could you kindly reshare? @matthewbroome.bsky.social @tamsinford.bsky.social @drshirleyr.bsky.social @marialoades.bsky.social @sosoallan.bsky.social @olademk.bsky.social @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jul 11

I so enjoyed catching up with friends from the Lab for Scalable Mental Health at #SST5 in Chicago @ariellesmith.bsky.social @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and others!

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jul 9

This looks amazing @psychologybath.bsky.social @lampresearchuk.bsky.social @drhollybear.bsky.social @faithorchard.bsky.social do share within your networks

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jul 8

So enjoyed this conversation!

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ACAMH - Association for Child and Adolescent Mental Health @acamh.bsky.social · Jul 2

🎤New ep of Mind the Kids podcast out today!

One and done? Single session interventions

@claragfaria.bsky.social interviews @marialoades.bsky.social, listen wherever you get your pods from - search ACAMH or visit www.youtube.com/watch?v=ab0r...

#singlesessioninterventions #scalable

Mind the Kids - One and done? Single session interventions

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 29

Great to see @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and the Lab for Scalable Mental Health in Chicago and to hear about so many innovate real world applications of single session interventions at #SST5

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 28

And impressive tote bags and goodies too - well done indeed @jschleiderphd.bsky.social and your SST5 organising team 🥰

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 28

Along my running route is morning in Chicago (it was a ‘tourist’ run - lots of photo stops) @jess-deighton.bsky.social this one for you 😀 - added benefits of #sst5 thanks @jschleiderphd.bsky.social

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Dan Hayes @danhayesphd.bsky.social · Jun 2

🚨 Paper alert 🚨 There’s a lot of debate at the moment around universal, interventions in schools. A thread 🧵

Our new meta-analysis, published today, shows they can work in reducing symptoms of depression and anxiety.

www.frontiersin.org/journals/chi...

Findings discussed more below…

Frontiers | Universal, school-based, interventions to improve emotional outcomes in children and young people: a systematic review and meta-analysis

IntroductionThere is debate into the impact of universal, school-based interventions to improve emotional outcomes. Previous reviews have only focused on anx...

www.frontiersin.org

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 28

Sounds like a super interest project to work on!

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 19

@psychologybath.bsky.social @uniofbathnews.bsky.social

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 19

Thanks @jschleiderphd.bsky.social for letting us use Project Care.

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 19

🔍 NEW STUDY: Evaluation of Project Care UK – an online self-help single-session intervention to boost SELF-COMPASSION in adolescents 💙
📘 Read in JMIR MH: mental.jmir.org/2025/1/e72077
🧠 A step forward in making mental health support more accessible.
#MentalHealth #SelfCompassion #PsychologyResearch

Investigating Project Care UK, a Web-Based Self-Help Single-Session Intervention for Youth Mental Health: Program Evaluation

Background: Psychological distress becomes more common during adolescence, yet many young people struggle to access clinic-based mental health care. Digital, self-help single-session interventions (SS...

mental.jmir.org

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 14

Love this example of learning through doing :)

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 14

Lucy I share that worry too and funding widespread dissemination beyond journals is key to narrowing the evidence - practice gap

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 14

Yes- exactly!

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 11

Trying to bring science to TikTok. Inspired by youth voices + a few great academics. @lucyfoulkes.bsky.social @amymccall.bsky.social in particular.

Got examples? Send them my way! #SciComm

See more about why www.linkedin.com/posts/maria-...

#sciencecommunication #tiktok | Maria Loades

We need to talk about science where people are already spending their time — even if that’s TikTok. I’m passionate about science communication. If we want our research to make an impact, we need to m...

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Dr Nina Higson-Sweeney @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social · Jun 3

You have 6 DAYS LEFF to apply to BRIDGE, a 6-month peer mentoring scheme for ECRs to facilitate global collaborations in mental health research!

It is free, remote, and focused in skills development, social support, and cross-cultural networking 👉🏽 mentalhealthresearch.org.uk/bridge/

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 3

Interested in how I’m including imp sci considerations? Here’s an example where I used the CFIR model to help us structure our thinking about context etc as an output from what yp told us to think more about during formative qual research bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com/articles/10....

Young people’s attitudes towards online self-help single-session interventions: findings from a co-produced qualitative study - BMC Psychology

Background Many young people experience at least subthreshold depression symptoms which impact their functioning. Yet, access to evidence-based help is limited, with barriers such as service threshold...

bmcpsychology.biomedcentral.com

Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 3

Highly recommend @deciphercentre.bsky.social training and big thanks to @drlucymaddox.bsky.social for recommending it to me initially!

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 3

How do we bridge the gap between research-practice in public health? In my @nihr.bsky.social fellowship, I attended training @deciphercentre.bsky.social @grahammoore.bsky.social et al. I’ve since been thinking much more about context and using logic models more fluidly as to🛠️ to structure this

Graham Moore @grahammoore.bsky.social · Jun 2

In London as part of the teaching team for this masterclass. Will be sharing @deciphercentre.bsky.social led frameworks for intervention research, with a focus on implementation.

NIHR Applied Research Collaboration (ARC) South London @arc-southlondon.bsky.social · Feb 11

Booking is now open for ARC South London's 2025 Implementation Science Masterclass. Learn from international experts in the field and receive guidance on how to work more effectively on your own implementation projects. #ImpSci

arc-sl.nihr.ac.uk/events-train...

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · Jun 1

Personally I’d vote Bluesky. And LinkedIn also seems to have more of a social media element now.

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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · May 26

Psychological distress over 30 years in Great Britain: the times they are a changin’ (or are they?) buff.ly/qpu4p0f

🧵 THREAD

#MentalHealth #PsychologicalDistress #Surveys #GB #30years

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Maria Loades @marialoades.bsky.social · May 27

And bonus, I got to sit next to @nhigsonsweeney.bsky.social who was the first ever @lampresearchuk.bsky.social phd student

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