What’s Next in Mental Health?
What’s Next in Mental Health is a podcast for professionals and enthusiasts. It discusses key challenges, future visions and advances in the big picture of mental health. Topics range from neuroscience perspectives to reforming the diagnostic system and the future of psychedelic-assisted therapy. In each episode psychologist and psychotherapist Helena Service talks to an expert about their work and ideas about how to move the field forward.
Podcasting since 2022 • 12 episodes
What’s Next in Mental Health?
Latest Episodes
Social Prescribing and Creative Health (with Prof. Helen Chatterjee)
Clinical care is estimated to account for only 20% of a person’s health outcomes. So how do we tackle the far more influential social and economic determinants of health? Social prescribing is one of the approaches aiming to change ...
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Season 2
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Episode 8
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1:03:15
The Mechanics of Conscious Experience (with Prof. Anil Seth)
Mental health and consciousness are intertwined. Basic subjective experiences like feeling good, bad or depressed, or perceiving your surroundings “accurately” relate to conscious processes. The field of consciousness research can deepen our un...
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Season 2
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Episode 7
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58:04
Psychological Treatments – Can We Get Routine Outcome Monitoring Right? (with Dr. Chris Evans)
Routine Outcome Monitoring (ROM) is gaining traction in psychotherapy and psychological treatments. Session-by-session monitoring with multi-item self-report questionnaires is also one of the cornerstones of the influential Improving Access to ...
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Season 2
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Episode 6
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1:00:15
How the diagnostic system started to swell (with DSM-4 Chair Allen Frances)
About a decade ago, one of the most influential psychiatrists of our time, started speaking out against over-medicalization and vested interests corroding the diagnostic system in psychiatry - a system he had helped pioneer. Professor Eme...
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Season 2
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Episode 5
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33:13
A Glimpse into VR Exposure Therapy (with Dr. Andrew Sherrill)
Virtual reality technology has been used for exposure therapy for decades but has not yet become mainstream in clinical practice. Advances in the gaming industry and recreational applications for VR have, however, made equipment increasin...
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Season 2
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Episode 4
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59:25