Our Members

‍Current Positions: Head of School and Director of the Krongold Clinic ‍

Workplace: Monash University

‍Email Address: andrea.reupert@monash.edu

Current research focus

·        The experiences and outcomes of family members living with adversity (including but not limited to parental mental illness)

·        How health, community and education services can better support family members living with adversity. 

Part of the stigma, schools and navigator workgroups. 

Current Positions: Faculty, Institute for Behavioral Health, The Heller School for Social Policy and Management

Workplace: Brandeis University

Email Address: jnicholson@brandeis.edu

Current Research Focus - Community-engaged and co-created research with individuals and families living with behavioral health conditions (e.g., mental and/or substance use disorder); implementation science; development and testing of interventions; dissemination; mixed methods

I am interested and committed to developing strategies to support research co-creation, and the engagement and acknowledgement of individuals’ lived experiences in the work.

Part of the stigma workgroup

Current Positions: Eileen O’Connor Chair of Mental Health Research

Workplace:  Australian Catholic University

Email Address: kim.foster@acu.edu.au

My research in the field of Families Affected by Parental Mental Illness (FaPMI) has focused on development and implementation of education on family-focused practice for healthcare professionals; evaluation of community interventions (online & face-to-face) for children and families affected by parental mental illness; understanding the experiences of adult children in families affected by parental mental illness; synthesising evidence on family-focused practice.

Current research foci are:

· Building workforce capacity to provide effective family-focused practice (FFP) through implementation on education on the EASE family-focused practice framework for healthcare professionals

· Investigating young carers prevalence, experiences and outcomes

Part of the EASE workgroup

Current Positions: Lecturer
Workplace: University of East Anglia
Mobile Number:  07966 869 465
Email Address: Kate.Blake-Holmes@uea.ac.uk

Current research focus.

·Supporting families navigate complex systems of care when a parent has a mental health illness.

·Exploring the experiences of parents detained under the Mental Health Act

Lead of the Navigator workgroup and in the Schools workgroup

Current Positions: Senior Lecturer

Workplace: Monash Rural Health, Monash University

Email Address: Rochelle.hine1@monash.edu

Current research focus

My research centres on prevention and early intervention approaches to promoting mental health and wellbeing for children, parents and families. Employing a social determinants lens incorporating anti-racist and gendered perspectives, I collaborate with lived and living experience experts (predominantly children, young people and parents in the perinatal phase) and other stakeholders to address discrimination in everyday environments and to build supports for and with people who are disadvantaged in relation to socioeconomic resources and who experience mental health challenges.

Part of the stigma and decolonisation workgroups

Current Positions: Senior Research Fellow and Manager of Research and Evaluation
Workplace: School of Rural Health, Monash University and Emerging Minds, National Workforce Centre for Child Mental Health
Mobile Number:  +61412880598
Email Address: Melinda.goodyear@monash.edu

Current research focus. Child and Family Mental Health

●Workforce Development and System Change

●Early Intervention support

Currently in system change and digital interventions but would like to start an early intervention workgroup

Current Positions: lecturer in Mental Health

Workplace:

Queen’s University Belfast

Email Address: a.grant@qub.ac.uk

Current research focus.

Developing and implementing FFP interventions and evaluation in adult mental health and children’s services, and the community and voluntary sector. Evaluating use of The Family Model in services. Exploring how families can be assisted to navigate services. Measuring outcomes of FFP & school support for children who have a parent with mental illness.

Currently part of the outcomes , navigator, schools and EASE workgroups

Current Positions:

• Research Fellow at Monash University Clayton, Victoria,

• FaPMI (Families where a parent has a mental Ill-health) Coordinator/Monash Partners STAR Clinician Research Fellow at Eastern Health Mental Health Program , Vic Australia

Workplace:

• Monash University Clayton, Victoria;

• Eastern Health Mental Health Program, Vic Australia

Email Address: Rebecca.allchin@monash.edu

Current research focus.

· Co-understanding outcomes of our FaPMI peer support programs with the children and parents who use them and codeveloping practiced based monitoring tools

· Understanding whole-of-family focused practices better to improve their implementation and ongoing use

· Embedding the attention to family and parenting occupations in practice – particularly for Occupational Therapists

· Reimagining the ‘problem’ – reframing the work with parents, children, families and practitioners

Currently in the spread and sustainability, navigator and             systems working group

Current Positions: Senior Lecturer

Workplace: University of Surrey

Email Address: a.dunn@surrey.ac.uk

Current research focus

Intervention and service development to enhance support for parents receiving inpatient psychiatric care and their families.

Preventative intervention to limit intergenerational transmission of mental illness.

Currently in schools and policy workgroups

Current Positions: Assistant Professor, Research Faculty

Workplace: University of Delaware

Email Address: katykap@udel.edu

current research focus.

·        Supporting pregnant and parenting people with behavioral health conditions

·        Addressing intergenerational behavioral health and social determinants of health in pediatric settings

·        Interventions that utilize technology/digital platforms

Currently in the digital interventions workgroup.

Current Positions: Research Fellow
Workplace: Queen’s University Belfast
Email Address: e.loudon@qub.ac.uk

Currently working in engaged community research in Belfast Northern Ireland, specifically as lead on a qualitative longitudinal study exploring the influence of community context on life trajectories.

My main research focus is multiple service involvement and the imapct on the whole family with regard to PMI. I am exploring grant opportunities to allow me to explore this further.

Currently in the navigator and schools workgroups

‍Current Positions: Lecturer in Child & Family Health

‍Workplace: King’s College London

‍Email Address: emma.l.maynard@kcl.ac.uk

‍Links to research profiles: Emma Maynard - King's College London

current research focus. (Two sentences or a few bullet points)

I research the lived experiences of parents and children where families are affected by PMH and safeguarding concerns, and practice approaches to meeting their needs by schools, children’s services, community mental health and adult mental health. I mainly use qualitative and participatory methods and have a particular interest in narrative.

Currently in schools and navigator groups and interested in starting new group with focus on community services.

Current Positions: Senior Academic

Workplace: Ara Institute of Canterbury

Email Address: adele.parkinson@ara.ac.nz

Current research focus

·  Relationship between professionals and child, youth, and family service users in the COPMI/FaPMI area

·  Impact of neoliberalism on professional values and practice

·  Experiences of students in a post-graduate Professional Supervision programme

·  Decolonising the FaPMI/COPMI research community

Currently in decolonising and navigator workgroups

Current Position: Professor

Workplace: Université du Québec en Outaouais, Département de psychoéducation et de psychologie

‍Email Address: genevieve.piche@uqo.ca

Current research focus:

• Understanding the lived experiences and needs of parents with mental illness and their children

• Describing family-focused practices of professionals in adult mental health services

• Young caregiving (scope, characteristics, lived realities, screening instrument)

• Development, adaptation, and implementation of family-focused preventive interventions and youth-oriented tools (e.g., bibliotherapy, websites)

Part of the Outcomes and of the Ease Framework workgroups.

Member of the Communications Committee.

Current Positions: Professor, research leader

Workplace: Child and Adolescent Mental Health Center, Capital Region of Denmark, Research Unit, Gentofte Hospitalsvej 3 A, 1. Sal, DK 2900 Hellerup

Email Address: anne.amalie.elgaard.thorup@regionh.dk

Current research focus.

Following a cohort of 522 offspring of parents with schizophrenia or bipolar disorder and controls. Assessed every fourth year from age 7, now conduction the fourth wave at age 19

Conducting a large RCT including 600 families who are offered a multidisciplinary team based holistic and preventive intervention compared to TAU

Current Positions: Associate Professor in Psychology
Workplace: De Montfort University
Mobile Number: 
Email Address: syates@dmu.ac.uk

Current research focus

The impacts of PMI on families and relationships and how services can address these. Stigma, guilt and shame in families affected by PMI.

Currently in outcomes, navigator, stigma and schools.

Current Positions: Senior Researcher – Regional Trauma Network; Honorary Senior Lecturer – Queen’s University Belfast

Workplace: Northern Health & Social Care Trust

Email Address: claire.mccartan@northerntrust.hscni.net

Current research focus.

I work in the National Health Service in a specialist psychological trauma service supporting victims and survivors of conflict-related trauma. I am interested in transgenerational trauma, tackling mental health inequalities and nature-based mental health interventions.

Currently in the navigator work group

Current Positions: Professor of Social Care and Praxis Chair

Workplace: Queen’s University Belfast

Email Address: g.davidson@qub.ac.uk

Current research focus.

My main research interests are in mental health, specifically:

· the effectiveness of services;

· the social determinants of mental health;

· human rights and mental health/mental capacity legislation; and

· the associations between adversity, trauma and mental health.

Currently in outcomes and navigator work groups

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Current Positions: Assistant Professor, Participatory Research in Mental Health Research

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Workplace: Department of Psychiatry, Psychotherapy, Psychosomatics, and Medical Psychology, Division of Psychiatry I, Medical University Innsbruck, Innsbruck, Austria

‍Email Address: jean.paul@i-med.ac.at

Current research focus. (Two sentences or a few bullet points)

· Leading participatory and interdisciplinary research to enhance mental health services for children, families, and healthcare professionals.

·  Focusing on perinatal and infant mental health, narrative practices in medicine, and stakeholder-driven approaches to health system change.

Currently in digital interventions and participatory research workgroup

Current Positions: Deputy head of institute, Professor, Merited teacher, head of education.

Workplace: UiT – Arctic University of Norway

Email Address: camilla.lauritzen@uit.no

Current research focus.

Child- and adolescent mental health, children of mentally ill and substance abusing parents, child welfare and protection services, health and social services research.

‍Current Positions: Research Fellow

‍Workplace: Monash University

‍ Email Address: Caroline.walters@monash.edu

current research focus. (Two sentences or a few bullet points)

· My research focus is on improving the experiences for families, from the perspectives of parents, siblings, services users and carers, to enable better provision of services for people who experience mental distress and their supporters.

· Understanding and advocating for the social determinants that impact the experiences of families.

Currently in digital interventions and participatory research workgroups.

Current Positions: Research Scientist

Workplace: Lurie Institute for Disability Policy, Brandeis University

Email Address: miriamheyman@brandeis.edu

Current research focus.

- The experiences of parents with diverse disabilities

- The home and family environment and its influence on children with disabilities

- Disability and mental health across the lifespan

Current Positions: Professor, Editor of the journal Ungsinn

Workplace: Arctic University of Norway, UiT, RKBU North

Email Address: charlotte.reedtz@uit.no

Current research focus.

Child & Adolescent mental health & wellbeing

Parent Training

Evidence Based Practice/Best Practice

Implementing Innovative Interventions in Community Health & Social Care

Evaluating Change of Clinical Practice in Adult Mental Health Care

Current Positions: NIHR Advanced Fellow and Consultant Psychiatrist

Workplace: Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London and South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust

Email Address: claire.1.wilson@kcl.ac.uk

Current research focus. (Two sentences or a few bullet points)

Claire employs a lifespan approach to the development of healthy and resilient families. Her clinical work and research focus on the intergenerational transmission of risk for mental health and disease and opportunities for intervention to prevent adverse developmental trajectories.‍ ‍

https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/claire-wilson‍ ‍https://www.kcl.ac.uk/research/genmind-transgenerational-intervention-for-mental-health

current research focus. (Two sentences or a few bullet points)

I employ a lifespan approach to the development of healthy and resilient families.

Clinical work and research focus on the intergenerational transmission of risk for mental health and disease and opportunities for intervention to prevent adverse developmental trajectories.

Areas of focus include the preconception and perinatal periods using a range of methodologies to translate her work from the level of the bench or the database, to the bedside, to policy makers and to the public. This includes policy orientated and clinically relevant evidence synthesis and co-design and evaluation of complex interventions.

‍Current Positions: Lecturer at Royal Holloway | Clinical Psychologist at West London NHS Trust

‍Workplace: as above

‍Email Address: jessica.radley@kcl.ac.uk(will likely change soon)

Current research focus.

I am interested in how mental health difficulties develop during the perinatal period, including cognitive mechanisms that maintain or exacerbate difficulties such as mental imagery. My PhD (2018-2022) focused on the needs and experiences of parents with psychosis and those of their families.

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‍Current Positions: Senior Lecturer

‍Workplace: Ulster University

‍Email Address: s.lagdon@ulster.ac.uk

Current research focus.

Susan’s research focuses on domestic and sexual violence, including coercive control, with particular attention to the mental health impacts of interpersonal trauma and support for victims.
Her work uses mixed methods, emphasising participatory approaches and stakeholder engagement to guide the research process.

Currently in navigator group

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Current Positions: Associate Professor, Mental Health Nursing, University of Sydney

Workplace: Sydney Nursing School, University of Sydney

Email Address: Sophie.isobel@sydney.edu.au

Current research focus.

Trauma and violence informed care, improving experiences of care for adults, families and children engaged with mental health services, preventing intergenerational trauma

Current Positions:

1)     Senior Lecturer in Clinical and Health Psychology.

2)     Deputy Director, PRIME research unit

Workplace:

1)     The University of Manchester

2)     Greater Manchester Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust

Email Address: lynsey.gregg@manchester.ac.uk

Current research focus.

My research is focussed primarily on parents with psychosis, understanding their experiences, how mental health services cater to their needs, and improving outcomes for them and their families.

‍ Lynsey Gregg - Research Explorer The University of Manchester

‍ ‍PRIME – Perinatal Mental Health and Parenting | The University of Manchester

Current Positions: Assistant Professor Youth Mental Health,
Deputy Lead Mental Health and Neuroscience Research Institute, Supervisor at @ease youth walk-in centres.

Workplace: Maastricht University, Maastricht, the Netherlands

Email Address: Sophie.Leijdesdorff@ MaastrichtUniversity.nl

‍Research profile links www.linkedin.com/in/sophieleijdesdorff

‍ www.ease.nl/en

Current Positions:  Professor of Clinical Child Psychology

Workplace: University of Sussex

Email Address: s.cartwrighthatton@sussex.ac.uk

Current research focus.

- Can we prevent mental health problems from running in families? (Spoiler, yes we can, at least partially!)

- Can we use short, scalable interventions (including digital interventions) to facilitate this?

Currently in the policy workgroup

Current Positions: Director
Workplace: Emerging Minds
Mobile Number:  0438804123
Email Address: morganb@emergingminds.com.au

Current research focus.

Co-designing national child, parent and family mental health workforce capability development strategies to expand access to support.

Hybrid service delivery methods to expand access to prevention and early intervention services

Common elements of selective prevention and early intervention practices

Professor of Rural Mental Health, Monash University

Mobile Number:  +61429358470
Email Address: darryl.maybery@monash.edu

Current research focus.

I develop survey instruments (e.g. Family Focused Practice Questionnaire, Family and Carer scale) and research in the area of child, parent, family and workforce where a parent has a mental health concern.

Currently in the outcomes working group