Team Intervene: Focus on interventions for adolescent populations

The focus of our team is on improving access to mental health interventions for vulnerable child populations (such as maltreated and refugee children) and developing accessible and acceptable school-based mental health services. We are currently working on a number of different projects. We also have three DPhil students working in our team- Tanya Manchanda, Hinako Irei and Tony James.

One of the main interests of the team is on improving the implementation of evidence-based mental health interventions, in particular within the school environment. In order to inform this work we run the OxWell Student Survey, for which Mina Fazel is lead investigator working closely with Emma Soneson and Galit Geulayov and a vibrant group of collaborators are working on this from across Oxford university departments as well as researchers from Cambridge University and as far afield as Melbourne University. We are also interested in how best to implement services, in particular digital and online interventions and Holly Bear has been working on questions related to this, for example as part of the EcoWeb trial. We ensure that young people remain involved in the work that we do, providing an essential perspective to guide our work and we try to ensure that we can embed youth co-production in all our studies, analyses and conclusions drawn. Thank you to the young people who have been involved in all our work so far. Other studies include the Mindkind study, and the RIGHT trial, a project studying interventions for children and families who have been exposed to abuse or neglect.