Menarche Menstruation Menopause and Mental Health (4M) conference. 20th and 21st June 2024.

Theme: Menstrual & Mental Health in Society

For our inaugural conference the overarching theme is “Menstrual and Mental Health in Society“.

We are looking forward to hearing about research and practice relevant to menstrual, menopausal and/or mental health, but we are particularly interested in work that addresses topics related to this theme. For example:

• bidirectional relationships between socioeconomic position and menstrual health and wellbeing
• the role of education in improving menstrual health awareness and reducing negative impacts on mental health in schools
• workplace policies like menstrual or menopausal leave
• menstruation in humanitarian crises
• socio-legal issues around smartphone period tracking data
• digital health and femtech
• the gender data/health gap
• the impact of menstrual health on social wellbeing
• And much more!

We want these two days to be reflective of the 4M mission to foster collaborative interdisciplinary work within the 4Ms. This means we want to showcase work beyond academic research and we strongly encourage non-academic stakeholders to attend and present at the conference. We also strongly encourage early career researchers (including PhD students) to attend.

The conference meal will be held on the 20th of June 2024.

Join us for the PgCert in Psychedelics: Mind, Medicine and Culture Summer School that will involve talks, practices, music, breathwork, etc. This three-day event will take place from 10^th to the 12^th July 2024 at the main, Streatham, campus of the University of Exeter.

You, the current PgCert cohort, will meet the PgCert convenors, including Andy Letcher, Leor Roseman, Peter Sjöstedt-Hughes, Celia Morgan, and special guests in the psychedelic sphere. Accommodation on campus and catering will be provided.

There is also a one-day option available, for the 12^th July, for both current and prospective students to attend.

2-day workshop for Trainee CYP Senior Wellbeing Practitioners
14th and 15th of May 2024 (face to face and online)

Course details
In collaboration with the Maudsley National and Specialist OCD, BDD and Related Disorders Clinic and colleagues from The University of Oxford leading on Parent Led CBT, this intensive 2-day workshop provides an overview of OCD in CYP and cutting-edge low intensity assessment and interventions for both younger children and adolescents as well as workbooks to support interventions. The course is suitable for Trainee CYP Senior Wellbeing Practitioners and their supervisors working in MHSTs or CYP community settings. Attendees should have training and/or experience delivering parent-led CBT for child anxiety problems.

Please contact us if there are any gaps to discuss.

Aims
• To understand and identify the symptoms of OCD as part of a low intensity assessment
• To understand the maintaining mechanisms in OCD, and how to explain this to CYP and their families (including how families manage OCD)
• To collaboratively set and monitor goals to break the vicious cycle of OCD
• To understand how to deliver effective guided self-help interventions for mild to moderate OCD including Exposure and Response Prevention (ERP)
• To involve families or carers in therapy as appropriate
• To deliver Parent-Led CBT for OCD in young children
• To understand and support effective relapse prevention strategies
• To understand pathways for higher intensity/ complex cases