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Developing a transdiagnostic, school-based intervention to prevent adolescent mental health challenges 🧠 Led by Prof Essi Viding & Prof Pasco Fearon @UKRI.org funded resetproject.co.uk #MentalHealth #AdolescentWellbeing #ResetProject

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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
We've just published a new blog post around understanding the social impact of childhood trauma, featuring a thoughtful conversation with researcher @ritikac.bsky.social If you’re curious about the work, the science behind it, or those driving it forward, you can read the post here ⬇️ buff.ly/1NxccDN
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Exploring the Social Impact of Childhood Trauma: A Conversation with Ritika Chokhani – The ReSET Project – Building resilience through socio-emotional training
Written by Olivia Stirling (Research Assistant).
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 23/02/2026
🌿 This week is #NationalEatingDisorderAwarenessWeek , a yearly campaign which aims to raise awareness, challenge stigma and provide hope and support for those impacted... (Thread) #NEDAW
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EDIFY - shaping a fresh approach to eating disorders
EDIFY works directly with young people with eating disorders to map the diverse routes into and out of illness.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
February is LGBTQ+ History Month!🏳️‍🌈📣 We put together a short video to highlight some statistics surrounding LGBTQ+ mental health, experience with physical healthcare, and discrimination and hate experienced by the community.💔
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
Children's Mental Health Week Retrospect 🧠 Research Assistant Joshua Wood wrote a blog to conclude and summarise how ReSET has engaged with Place2Be's Children's Mental Health Week and their 2026 theme of "This is My Place".
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 17/02/2026
What happens when you give a stranger a flower? 🌹 #RandomActOfKindnessDay youtu.be/2Zy2RLKOhX4?...
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Giving Flowers to Strangers in London 🌹 #randomactsofkindness
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 16/02/2026
🚨 Did you know we have a four-part Podcast series with the @thementalelf.bsky.social discussing what is required to tackle the growing mental health crisis among children and young people? Guest speakers include Prof Pasco Fearon, Prof Essi Viding, and Prof Peter Fonagy. #AdolescentMentalHealth 🎙️
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 13/02/2026
Here is a little recap of our time at the #AMHDMshowcase conference! 📈 Such a pleasure to be a part of such a brilliant and inspiring room of people 👏 Thank you @events.ukri.org for putting on an amazing 2-day event. youtube.com/shorts/aB88p...
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AMHDM Showcase Conference (Feburary 2026)
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
📽️ On Day 4 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we compiled a list of quotes from our Facilitators and Young People who took part in the ReSET intervention that we thought reflected nicely onto this years theme of 'This is Our Place' 🏠️ Check out the video below! #Place2Be youtube.com/shorts/T1Hcw...
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What Did Our Facilitators and Young People Really Think About ReSET? (Feedback Quotes)
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
What does 'This is My Place' mean? 🏫 For Day 3 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, we take the theme of 'This is My Place' and outline why schools are already a safe space for young people and how ReSET aligns with schools to support young people's mental health. Check it out below!
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 10/02/2026
🤔 Did you know that young people spend on average 30% of their waking hours at school? 🏫 Check out our new video for Day 2 of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek, where our colleague Josh Wood went back to his secondary school to interview one of the teachers... youtu.be/itO_Y3eB4sw
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What Do Secondary School Teachers Think About Adolescent Mental Health? #cmhw
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 09/02/2026
It's the start of #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek 🩵 This years theme is 'This is My Place', highlighting the importance of fostering a safe, nurturing environment that allows children and young people to feel a sense of belonging 🤝 More info ➡️ www.childrensmentalhealthweek.org.uk #CMHW
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Today is @mind.org.uk #TimeToTalkDay Being honest and talking about difficult things is tough! But it's also the first step towards getting the support you need. Talking also reduces the stigma around seeking support! If you or someone you care about needs support, visit mind.org.uk/TimeToTalkDay
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 30/01/2026
When young people get the right support, parents feel the difference too! 🫶 For Stem4's Parent Mental Health Day 2026, we’re sharing some of the changes caregivers told us they’ve seen since their child attended the ReSET programme. 📣 #ParentMentalHealthDay #PMHD #PMHD2026
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
📣 New Blog is live on @boldinsights.bsky.social ! @dralexlloyd.bsky.social and Laura Lucas discuss the promise of school-based interventions to preventing teen mental health issues. #schools #mentalhealth #adolescents #intervention #research boldscience.org/can-teen-men...
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Can teen mental health problems be prevented in school?
A new approach teaches at-risk adolescents social and emotional skills and strategies
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 27/01/2026
Another fascinating conversation between our brilliant ReSET collaborators! Check it out on YouTube or your favourite podcast app📲 #ReSET #podcast #mentalhealth #schools
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 21/01/2026
We heard it's #NationalHugDay today... Here's a reminder that even a simple hug can be what it takes to brighten someone's day🤗 www.tiktok.com/@reset.proje...
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TikTok - Make Your Day
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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🎙️ RESET Podcast Ep 2: Supporting Emotional Skills Why do adolescent brains experience emotions so intensely but struggle to regulate them? (Developmental mismatch: amygdala fully online, prefrontal regions still developing) #Neuroscience #SchoolMentalHealth @resetproject.bsky.social 🧵 THREAD
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 14/01/2026
💬 Check out our newest blog post "A Day in the Life of a Research Assistant"! Our team member Reilly shares a sneak peak into an day of working in her role at ReSET. Share this with anyone who may be interested in a career in psychology research or is a recent psychology grad!
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Day in the Life of a Research Assistant (Office Edition) – The ReSET Project – Building resilience through socio-emotional training
Have you ever wondered what it’s like to work as a Psychology Research Assistant (RA) at a top UK university? If so, you’re in the right place. Keep reading to find out why it’s one of the most…
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 13/01/2026
Go check out the first episode of our ReSET Mental Health Podcast! Listen on YouTube on the Mental Elf's page!🧠🎤
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 31/12/2025
Happy New Year from the ReSET Team!✨⭐ We hope that you see the year out in style - whether that's celebrating with family, partying with friends or relaxing at home watching some good TV!🥂
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
On the 1st Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 1 Amazing Project 🌈🎁 ReSET is more than a study - it’s a collaborative effort of researchers, schools, teachers, students, caregivers, and clinicians. Here’s to the journey and promising results so far - and what’s still to come!! #12DaysofReSET
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
Happy Holidays from the ReSET Team!🎄❄️ We hope you have a festive period filled with joy, laughter, and plenty of celebrations. ReSET has enjoyed the festivities - decorating our office, filming holiday related content, festive lunches, and office christmas party. 🥂
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 22/12/2025
On the 2nd Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 2 Professors had an idea 💡🎓 It all started with a conversation between Professors Essi Viding and Pasco Fearon. They saw the growing need for adolescent mental health support, and imagined a school-based, preventative, transdiagnostic intervention.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 21/12/2025
On the 3rd Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 3 Assessment Timepoints 🧠📈 We tracked our participants over 2-3 years, checking in on their wellbeing, peer relationships, and social-emotional development.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 20/12/2025
On the 4th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 4 Years Running 🕰️📆 From 2021 to 2025, ReSET’s been on the move - designing, delivering, evaluating and reflecting. Now we’re in the final stretch: analysing results, writing up findings, and sharing what we’ve learned!
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 19/12/2025
On the 5th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 560 Participants 👨👩👧👦🎉 We aimed for 540... and smashed it. Across 28 groups, over 560 young people took part in ReSET — split almost evenly between intervention and control.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 18/12/2025
On the 6th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about... 6 Publications (so far!) 📚🖋️ Even with all the busyness of the last 4 years, we still managed to publish! 💪 From evaluations of the feasibility study to development insights, ReSET’s made its mark in academic journals - and we’re not done yet!
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 17/12/2025
On the 7th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 7 South-East Councils 🗺️📍 ReSET's gone nation-wide! While the majority of our groups ran within Central London and surrounding boroughs, we also travelled as far as Kent - visits to each school ranging from 11 to well over 100 times!🏃
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 16/12/2025
On the 8th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 8 Week Intervention 📆 Those allocated to the intervention arm were invited to attend the 8 week intervention. Consisting of a session a week, focusing on developing skills for emotional processing & relational skills.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
🔥Team Spotlight🔥 Another ReSET Co-PI who needs no introduction Prof. Pasco Fearon is Director of the Centre for Child, Adolescent and Family Research and a world-leading developmental and clinical psychologist researching child development and mental health.🧠
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 15/12/2025
On the 9th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 9 Co-Investigators🔍 ReSET involves many moving parts, psychological concepts and methodological considerations. The breadth of the project meant we had to call upon some of the smartest minds to help design and implement ReSET.🧠
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 14/12/2025
On the 10th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 10 Pupils per Group📖 ReSET participants were the top 15% on the Strengths & Difficulties Questionnaire, which measures psychopathology. They were randomly put into a group of 10, resulting in varied gender, ethnicity, and neurodiversity.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 13/12/2025
On the 11th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 11 Secondary Schools🏫 This one is a bit of a stretch, as we technically worked with 12 schools (2 are sites belonging to the same school group) - but we made it work for the song!📖
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 12/12/2025
On the 12th Day of Christmas ReSET told me about ... 12 Team Members❄️ If you have been keeping up with our posts over the last few months you would know the team fairly well by now (shameless plug)!🔌💡
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 11/12/2025
❄️It's beginning to look a lot like ReSET .... ❄️ Make sure to stay tuned over the next 12 days as we reveal a little more information about the finer details of ReSET.🎁🎄 #12DaysofReSET
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 08/12/2025
☀️Team Spotlight☀️ Truly needing no introduction, Prof. Essi Viding is a Co-PI of ReSET. She is Pro Vice Provost for the Mental Health and Wellbeing Grand Challenge and chairs UCL's Children and Young People's Special Interest Group. She also co-directs the DRRU, where ReSET is based.📚
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
Our very own lab member @ritikac.bsky.social has released her first study from her PhD as a preprint! Well done👏
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 01/12/2025
⚡Team Spotlight⚡ Josh is our newest Research Assistant, assisting the final stages by co-leading our dissemination and using his coding skills to clean, score, and audit our data. He also leads a paper assessing student and school factors contributing to adolescent mental health and wellbeing🧠
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 24/11/2025
📣Team Spotlight📣 Reilly is one of our newest members, leading the project’s dissemination. With a background in creative content production, she’s used her communication skills to assist the final stages of data collection and creating engaging and accessible ways to spread the ReSET message💌
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 18/11/2025
Another shameless throwback! 👀🤫 At our conference we welcomed many wonderful and bright individuals to contribute their voices to ReSET. 😍 Watch this short compilation of some of our interviews to hear their thoughts and what impact they believe ReSET could have! 📣🗣️ youtube.com/shorts/hBYrU...
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ReSET Conference Interviews!
At our conference we welcomed many wonderful and bright individuals to contribute their voices to ReSET. 😍 Thank you to everyone that came!
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 17/11/2025
💡Team Spotlight💡 Introducing Alex, a post-doctoral research fellow on ReSET. Alex has been involved in designing and developing the cognitive-emotional training tasks used in the project. He has been closely involved in our intervention's development and the evaluation of collected measures.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 14/11/2025
Today wraps up Anti-Bullying Week - but that does not mean we should stop discussing bullying and making sure we are doing what we can to support our peers! The team had a lot of fun wearing our #OddSocks - do you own a fun pair??👀🧦
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 13/11/2025
Today is World Kindness Day 💛 Showing kindness towards others is a fundamental part of the ReSET groups – whether it's listening, showing empathy, or helping someone feel seen by your actions. Let’s take a moment to notice others and choose kindness today 🌸 #worldkindnessday #ReSETMentalHealth
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 12/11/2025
This is anti-bullying week, pioneered by the Anti-Bullying Alliance and a particularly relevant cause for ReSET as we work with adolescents. At our conference last week, Prof. René Veenstra and Prof. Lucy Bowes presented some interesting research surrounding adolescent bullying behaviours.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 11/11/2025
Co-production – an increasingly common indicator of good and relevantly informed research. However, it should be more than a buzzword thrown around to ensure the right box is ticked🚨✔ – a belief both ReThink and ReSET strongly hold.
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Speaking Across Lines: Young People Shaping Mental Health Research
I am a current PhD student at UCL and Research Fellow with the UK Trauma Council. I was previously a Research Assistant working on the Adolescence Mental Health and the Developing Mind (AMHDM)…
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Wondering what the conference looked like? Well, here it is! ✨ Hosted at Anna Freud for the day, the event delved into the ReSET Project and our results, as well as touching upon school-related topics such as developmental language disorder, social networks and bullying.
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 10/11/2025
Reflecting on the ReSET conference last week... Thank you to everyone who made the day brilliant, the speakers presented interesting research – including our own results showing evidence for reductions in mental health symptoms for those who received the intervention!
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The Mental Elf @thementalelf.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
👋 Good morning everyone, and a very warm Mental Elf welcome to the @resetproject.bsky.social conference in London. You can follow along all day at 🌟 #ReSETMentalHealth 🌟 We are going to be talking about Relationships, Emotions & Adolescent Wellbeing. I'm André - hello! 🧵 THREAD
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 05/11/2025
🌿 Today is National Stress Awareness Day. It's important to remember that not all stress is bad, but if stress begins to interfere with daily life and cause other negative symptoms, it's time to take action. Here is a one-minute breathing video that can help with immediate relief 💙 buff.ly/JJs7Yum
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ReSET Project @resetproject.bsky.social · 04/11/2025
📣Exciting announcement below!📣Curious to know what we're all about? ReSET is a novel indicated preventative intervention to improve the mental health of UK adolescents, by teaching strategies to support emotion regulation and social relationships🥰 (See more...⬇️)
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