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EMAIL tjf52@cam.ac.uk
College Hughes Hall
Department
  • Psychiatry
    • School
  • Clinical Medicine
    • Institute
  • Child and Adolescent Resilience and Mental Health
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    Research Theme Lifelong Brain Development and Brain Ageing The Social Brain

    Other Interdiciplinary Incentives

  • Public Health

    • Research Focus

    Keywords

  • Adolescent Mental Health
  • Child Psychiatry
  • Interventions

    • Clinical Conditions

  • Anxiety disorders
  • Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder
  • Autism
  • Depressive disorders
  • Eating disorders

    • Equipment & Techniques

  • Cross-sectional and cohort studies
  • Randomised control trials
  • Statistical analysis

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  • Public Engagement

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    Professor Tamsin Ford

    (she/her/hers)
    University Position
    Professor
    Professor Tamsin Ford is pleased to consider applications from prospective PhD students.

    Interests

    My research focuses on interventions and services to optimize the mental health of children and young people. Both mental health and services are interpreted broadly to include wellbeing as well as distress rather than children exceeding somewhat arbitrary cut points to meet diagnostic criteria, and all services that deal with children rather than just specialist mental health services. Research methods include secondary analysis of large epidemiological datasets, mixed qualitative and quantitative observational studies, economic evaluation systematic reviews and randomized controlled trials. My research is inherently translational and multi-disciplinary, and involves strong links with psychology, paediatrics, education, epidemiology, trial specialists, statisticians, health economics and basic scientists. The interface between the education and mental health is a particular area of interest.

    Key Publications

    Publications

    Similarities and differences in the functions of non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) across gender non-conforming and cisgender young adults.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2024.08.224
    Journal: J Affect Disord
    E-pub date: 2 Sep 2024
    Authors: NM Lutz, SR Chamberlain, JE Grant, C Lochner, PO Wilkinson, TJ Ford, SAS Neufeld

    Transitions from child and adolescent to adult mental health services for eating disorders: an in-depth systematic review and development of a transition framework.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1186/s40337-024-00984-3
    Journal: Journal of Eating Disorders
    E-pub date: 7 Mar 2024
    Authors: A Ragnhildstveit, N Tuteja, P Seli, L Smart, N Uzun, LC Bass, AC Miranda, TJ Ford, SAS Neufeld

    Access to and perceived unmet need for mental health services and support in a community sample of UK adolescents with and without experience of childhood adversity.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1017/S2045796024000027
    Journal: Epidemiol Psychiatr Sci
    E-pub date: 24 Jan 2024
    Authors: E Soneson, SR White, E Howarth, T Ford, M Fazel, PB Jones

    Trends in comorbid physical and mental health conditions in children from 1999 to 2017 in England.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00787-022-02112-5
    Journal: Eur Child Adolesc Psychiatry
    E-pub date: 1 Jan 2024
    Authors: L Panagi, T Newlove-Delgado, SR White, S Bennett, I Heyman, R Shafran, T Ford

    The development of depressive symptoms in older adults from a network perspective in the English Longitudinal Study of Ageing.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1038/s41398-023-02659-0
    Journal: Transl Psychiatry
    E-pub date: 25 Nov 2023
    Authors: P Schlechter, TJ Ford, SAS Neufeld

    Predictors of time-varying and time-invariant components of psychological distress during COVID-19 in the U.K. Household Longitudinal Study (understanding society).

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001237
    Journal: Psychol Assess
    E-pub date: 1 Nov 2023
    Authors: P Schlechter, TJ Ford, S McManus, SAS Neufeld

    The Eight-Item Center for Epidemiological Studies Depression Scale in the English Longitudinal Study of Aging: Longitudinal and Gender Invariance, Sum Score Models, and External Associations.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1177/10731911221138930
    Journal: Assessment
    E-pub date: 1 Oct 2023
    Authors: P Schlechter, TJ Ford, SAS Neufeld

    Relationship between severe mental illness and physical multimorbidity: a meta-analysis and call for action.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2023-300870
    Journal: BMJ Ment Health
    E-pub date: 1 Oct 2023
    Authors: D Pizzol, M Trott, L Butler, Y Barnett, T Ford, SA Neufeld, A Ragnhildstveit, CN Parris, BR Underwood, GF López Sánchez, M Fossey, C Brayne, E Fernandez-Egea, G Fond, L Boyer, JI Shin, S Pardhan, L Smith

    Eating disorders and physical multimorbidity in the English general population.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s40519-023-01600-0
    Journal: Eat Weight Disord
    E-pub date: 7 Sep 2023
    Authors: L Smith, GF López Sánchez, E Fernandez-Egea, T Ford, C Parris, BR Underwood, L Butler, Y Barnett, M Trott, A Koyanagi

    Depressive symptom networks in the UK general adolescent population and in those looked after by local authorities.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1136/bmjment-2023-300707
    Journal: BMJ Ment Health
    E-pub date: 31 Aug 2023
    Authors: P Schlechter, T Ford, SAS Neufeld

    Why Is Non-suicidal Self-injury More Common in Women? Mediation and Moderation Analyses of Psychological Distress, Emotion Dysregulation, and Impulsivity.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1080/13811118.2022.2084004
    Journal: Arch Suicide Res
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2023
    Authors: NM Lutz, SAS Neufeld, RW Hook, PB Jones, ET Bullmore, IM Goodyer, TJ Ford, SR Chamberlain, PO Wilkinson

    The Short Mood and Feelings Questionnaire from adolescence to emerging adulthood: Measurement invariance across time and sex.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1037/pas0001222
    Journal: Psychol Assess
    E-pub date: 1 May 2023
    Authors: P Schlechter, PO Wilkinson, TJ Ford, SAS Neufeld

    Prevalence, progress, and subgroup disparities in pharmacological antidepressant treatment of those who screen positive for depressive symptoms: A repetitive cross-sectional study in 19 European countries.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1016/j.lanepe.2022.100368
    Journal: Lancet Reg Health Eur
    E-pub date: 1 Jun 2022
    Authors: S Chen, TJ Ford, PB Jones, RN Cardinal

    Trends in inpatient care for psychiatric disorders in NHS hospitals across England, 1998/99-2019/20: an observational time series analysis.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1007/s00127-021-02215-5
    Journal: Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol
    E-pub date: 1 May 2022
    Authors: M Degli Esposti, H Ziauddeen, L Bowes, A Reeves, AM Chekroud, DK Humphreys, T Ford

    Impact of COVID-19 on mental health research: is this the breaking point?

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1192/bjp.2022.8
    Journal: Br J Psychiatry
    E-pub date: 17 Feb 2022
    Authors: O Sparasci, K Bhui, A Biswas, S Chamberlain, B Dubicka, R Dudas, S Farooq, T Ford, N Husain, I Jones, H Killaspy, W Lee, A Lingford-Hughes, C Mulholland, J Rubinsztein, R Shankar, A Sharma, L Sinclair, J Stone, A Young

    Simulating a Community Mental Health Service During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Effects of Clinician-Clinician Encounters, Clinician-Patient-Family Encounters, Symptom-Triggered Protective Behaviour, and Household Clustering.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.3389/fpsyt.2021.620842
    Journal: Front Psychiatry
    E-pub date: 1 Aug 2021
    Authors: RN Cardinal, CE Meiser-Stedman, DM Christmas, AC Price, C Denman, BR Underwood, S Chen, S Banerjee, SR White, L Su, TJ Ford, SR Chamberlain, CM Walsh

    Survey of CAMHS clinicians about their experience of remote consultation: brief report.

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1192/bjo.2020.160
    Journal: BJPsych Open
    E-pub date: 13 Jan 2021
    Authors: A Bhardwaj, A Moore, RN Cardinal, C Bradley, L Cross, TJ Ford

    Simulating a community mental health service during the COVID-19 pandemic: effects of clinician–clinician encounters, clinician–patient–family encounters, symptom-triggered protective behaviour, and household clustering

    DOI: http://doi.org/10.1101/2020.04.27.20081505
    Journal:
    E-pub date: 2 Jul 2020
    Authors: R Cardinal, C Meiser-Stedman, D Christmas, A Price, C Denman, B Underwood, S Chen, S Banerjee, S White, L Su, T Ford, S Chamberlain, C Walsh