The Mental Elf

The Mental Elf


Latest Episodes

Episode 5: Money and Mental Health - Wellcome Whatever Works #ActiveIngredientsMH
December 09, 2022

What's the relationship between money and mental health? What impact can we have with cash transfers or universal basic income?

Episode 4: Managing Emotions - Wellcome Whatever Works #ActiveIngredientsMH
December 08, 2022

How can emotional regulation help with youth anxiety and depression? How can we teach emotion skills to young people?

Episode 3: Movement and Monitoring - Wellcome Whatever Works #ActiveIngredientsMH
December 05, 2022

Can physical activity prevent or treat youth anxiety or depression? How can remote measurement technologies help with youth mental health?

Episode 2: Sleep and Development - Wellcome Whatever Works #ActiveIngredientsMH
December 02, 2022

Why is sleep so important for youth mental health?

Episode 1: Beliefs and Purpose - Wellcome Whatever Works #ActiveIngredientsMH
November 29, 2022

Can having a sense of purpose in life help with youth mental health? How can spiritual and religious beliefs help us to stay mentally healthy?

Warren Binford
October 31, 2022

What Children Need to Thrive

Nadha Hassen
October 29, 2022

Meaningfully engaging communities of color in community-based research: Lessons learned from an interdisciplinary dissertation

Rodrigo Heng-Lehtinen
October 29, 2022

What you can do to secure the rights and well-being of LGBTQ+ people

Deborah Klein Walker - Closing the gap between research and policy
October 29, 2022

Dr Walker talks about her career journey from researcher to policy maker and back again

Ryan Kilmer
October 28, 2022

Ryan Kilmer is Professor of Psychology and Chair of the Department of Psychological Science at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte, Co-Editor of the American Journal of Orthopsychiatry, and former President of the Global Alliance for Behavioral