An Exploration of the Aspirations and Future Orientation of Adolescents from Low-Income Families

New publication:
Fehily, Orla; Schlösser, Annette (2020) An Exploration of the Aspirations and Future Orientation of Adolescents from Low-Income Families Educational & Child Psychology 37: 118-135

Local funding success

Dr Jo Bell, Dr Lisa Revell and Dr Annette Schlosser have been successful in obtaining funding from East Riding of Yorkshire Council to support research evaluation of a Department for Education commissioned project intervention aimed at reducing mental health outcomes for young people. The project will focus on the development of a multidisciplinary support team approach to working with vulnerable and at-risk young people in the area.

There’s just huge anxiety: ontological security, moral panic, and the decline in young people’s mental health and well-being in the UK

Jo Bell, Marie Reid, Judith Dyson, Annette Schlosser & Tim Alexander (2019) have published:

There’s just huge anxiety: ontological security, moral panic, and the decline in young people’s mental health and well-being in the UK Qualitative Research in Medicine and Healthcare Vol 3(2) doi: 10.4081/qrmh.2019.8200

Faculty colleagues - research project success

Dr Time Alexander

Colleagues may be interested to see the University Web page for the research project “Access to mental health services: Exploring the barriers and facilitators to helping Hull’s distressed young people” being a multi-disciplinary team led by Dr Jo Bell (School of Social Sciences) with Dr Judith Dyson, Dr Tim Alexander, Dr Annette Schlosser (Department of Psychological Health and Well-being). Professor Marie Reid (Department of Psychology) and David Smith (Hull and East Yorkshire MIND).

Dr Annette Schlosser

Dr Judith Dyson

Mental Health Awareness Week

Thanks to Beverley Leak, Annette Schlosser, Ian Barkley and the students and service users in the Department of Psychological Health and Well-being for their current promotional activities this week for Mental Health Awareness week.

They report on events as follows:

Mental Health Awareness Week last week saw an elephant invading Hull’s Wyke College campus...!

Courtesy of Wyke’s Colin Walden and a rather large university van Mental Health students Mark, Romie and Meg along with lecturer Ian took the 'Elephant on campus' into the splendid and welcoming lobby of the local sixth form college. 

The theme for this year’s Mental Health  Awareness Week was Anxiety...with it being Exam time at Wyke who could say they weren’t at least a little nervous?  'Mental health is often the elephant in the room that nobody talks about, we wanted to raise awareness by handing out leaflets and talking to people, as well as signposting people to excellent courses in the Faculty and challenging and rewarding potential careers.

We invited people to post comments on the elephant – two of the comments sum up our purpose in being there...'

·        ' Mental health can help many people with any problem, and both listening and talking skills are needed. I am really considering it...'

·         'Mental health is vitally important to the wellbeing of society'

The Elephant at Wyke was just one site in a range of venues that colleagues from Clinical Psychology and HOLD (Helping Others Learn and Develop) visited during the week. GP surgeries and even Staff House on the University Campus experienced a presence...Look out for us next year! 

New publication by Annette Schlosser

Dr Annette Schlosser, Clincial Lecturer
and clinical psychology trainee Naomi Hughes have co-authored:

Annette Schlosser

Hughes NK, Schlosser A (2014) The effect of nurture groups: a systematic review Emotional and Behavioural Difficulties doi:10.1080/13632752.2014.883729