Lottie is a DPhil (PhD) student in the Department of Experimental Psychology at the University of Oxford, based in the TOPIC (The Oxford Psychological Interventions in Children and adolescents) research group. She is researching Generalised Anxiety Disorder in adolescents, with a particular interest in the cognitive and behavioural maintenance factors. Lottie is supervised by Polly Waite and Eleanor Leigh, and her work is funded by the Oxford – Medical Research Council Doctoral Training Pathway and University College, Oxford.
This small trial suggests Psychological Wellbeing Practitioners might deliver focused panic therapy effectively. But with only 46 participants included in the final analysis, larger trials are needed to confirm.
Postpartum anxiety affects more than 1 in 10 new mothers worldwide, yet researchers still can’t agree on how to define or measure it. This new review in The Lancet Psychiatry takes stock of what we know so far and why the field urgently needs consensus.
In her debut blog, Lottie Shipp summarises a qualitative study that explores Swedish young people’s perceptions of public stigma towards youth mental health.
