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Dennis Ougrin

@dennisougrin.bsky.social
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Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry at QMUL

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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
There has been an increase in the number of 6-9 year old children who come to emergency rooms with self-harm. In this interview I’m trying to make sense of it. drive.google.com/file/d/15CS-...
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 31/08/2026
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Journal of Child Psychology and Psychiatry (@TheJCPP) on X
The lifetime prevalence of self-harm is approximately 20% among young people. Join Prof. Michael Kaess and @dennisougrin for an evidence-based conversation on understanding and responding to self-har...
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
These young Ukrainian researchers came to Florence to learn from more experienced colleagues. But they also came to teach these more experienced colleagues. How to be resilient. And how to transform Ukraine into a world leader in war mental health research.
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 06/05/2026
Our new study reveals a surprisingly high prevalence of symptoms of PTSD in kids in Ukraine. About 40% are affected even in a city far away from the frontline www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti.... Overall 3,452 children have been killed or maimed by Russia www.unicef.org/ukraine/en/p...
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 26/01/2026
Our new paper summarises two randomised controlled studies: one showed no benefits of relaxation training for kids remaining in Ukraine, another showed significant benefits of problem solving training for Ukrainian kids who are relatively safe in Poland www.nature.com/articles/s44...
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Benjamin Husstad-Nedberg @factforce.bsky.social · 04/01/2026
In #London the 11th? 👇 #UK #England @dennisougrin.bsky.social
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Panel Discussion in London
If you in London or online and interested, this is a roundtable about Ukrainian children and war.
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 07/11/2025
This was a near-miss, unlike many tragedies. If you are a parent, be curious what your children talk to ChatGPT about.
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
A good way to mark World Mental Health Day. Commissioned by the Lancet, our stellar team created this article www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... with the accompanying video produced by the Lancet team m.youtube.com/watch?v=w3lJ...
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Mental health of children and young people in the WHO Europe region
Most mental health disorders start before adulthood. They are highly prevalent, disabling and often treatable. This Series paper discusses the current problems that contribute to the growing child, ad...
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 02/10/2025
How do you develop quality standards for child and adolescent mental health services? Stakeholder consultations, primarily with young people, are the key eur01.safelinks.protection.outlook.com?url=https%3A...
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Frontiers | Development of methods for WHO quality standards for child and youth mental health services to improve quality of care and patient safety in the WHO European region
BackgroundChild and youth mental health care is of varying quality across the WHO European Region, with many settings being low-resourced. To improve and sta...
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
Our group discovered a unique association between the history of sexual abuse self-harm and pain hyposensitivity www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Associations between childhood maltreatment, self-harm, and pain sensitivity in care-experienced adolescents living in the UK: a cross-sectional study
Childhood maltreatment is a major public health issue and associated with self-harm in adolescents. Self-harm is the strongest recognised predictor of…
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 06/08/2025
An important contribution from our team showing that art therapy reduces burnout in healthcare professionals. Well done, Megan Tjasink!
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 24/07/2025
There is a podcast published in the Lancet Primary Care podcast.app/the-lancet-p... about our study showing that a brief digital problem-solving intervention improves depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...
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The Lancet Primary Care in conversation with by The Lancet Group
<p>Explore the latest primary care research and topics with <em>The Lancet Primary Care In conversation with</em>. Journal editors speak to community members, primary care professionals, academics, an...
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The Lancet Primary Care @lancetprimarycare.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
🆕John Weisz and colleagues report the results of their RCT investigating the effect of a digital problem-solving intervention among Ukrainian youths displaced by war. Read the Article here ➡️ www.thelancet.com/journals/lan... @dennisougrin.bsky.social
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Effects of a brief digital problem-solving intervention on depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war: a crossover, randomised controlled trial
Our data suggest that a brief problem-solving DMHI, efficiently implemented in schools, could reduce internalising symptoms in refugee Ukrainian youths. After context-specific adaptations, DMHIs could...
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 18/07/2025
A brief digital problem-solving intervention improves depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war. www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Effects of a brief digital problem-solving intervention on depression and anxiety symptoms in Ukrainian children and adolescents displaced by war: a crossover, randomised controlled trial
Children and adolescents (hereafter referred to as youths) displaced from their home and country by war face many problems and increased risk of depre…
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 17/07/2025
Pain threshold is higher in kids with self-harm, but not pain tolerance. This could provide part of the explanation of the link between self-harm and suicide www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
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Pain threshold and pain tolerance in young people with Self-Injurious Behavior: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis
Pain sensitivity has been proposed as a contributing factor to self-injurious behavior (SIB). Meta-analytic results show that individuals with SIB hav…
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 06/07/2025
Our paper shows that water quality should be prioritised in rebuilding Ukraine after the war www.nature.com/articles/s41...
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Poor quality of sewage water in Ukraine: a priority in post-war rebuilding - Scientific Reports
Scientific Reports - Poor quality of sewage water in Ukraine: a priority in post-war rebuilding
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 20/06/2025
Suicide risk is hard to predict. Inpatient admissions remain an important marker of suicide risk www.cambridge.org/core/journal...
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Use of childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns to predict suicide in young people | BJPsych Open | Cambridge Core
Use of childhood adversity and mental health admission patterns to predict suicide in young people - Volume 11 Issue 4
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
No evidence that a digital intervention teaching war-affected children self-calming techniques works - an important study calling for research on other strategies rdcu.be/emFbL
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Randomized trial testing a self-guided digital mental health intervention teaching calming skills for Ukrainian children
npj Mental Health Research - Randomized trial testing a self-guided digital mental health intervention teaching calming skills for Ukrainian children
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
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Infant mental health services for birth and foster families of maltreated pre-school children in foster care (BeST?): a cluster-randomized phase 3 clinical effectiveness trial - Nature Medicine
In a trial examining the effectiveness of an infant mental health service targeting birth and foster families of children aged 0–5 years, families were randomized to receive care from either a multidi...
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 22/02/2025
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Dennis Ougrin @dennisougrin.bsky.social · 30/01/2025
Psychological therapies reduce self-harm, but not mortality in kids acamh.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10....
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JCPP Advances | ACAMH Child Development Journal | Wiley Online Library
Background Self-harm in adolescents is an international concern. Evidence highlights that therapeutic intervention (TI), such as cognitive behaviour therapy informed treatments, after self-harm lead...
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