Novel psychological therapy approaches

UCL has a strong track record in the development of novel psychological therapies and recent theme funding successes include an £2M i4i NIHR for Compassionate Avatar in Treatment of Depression, £700k PHR NIHR Group Psychoeducation to address Stigma Intervention in Learning Disability and European Consolidator Grant €2m for METABODY Development of interventions to address body image in eating disorders.

Impact on National Agenda

Planning for the first onset psychosis cases: The UCL PsyMatic tool PsyMaptic-A – Psychiatric Mapping Translated into Innovations for Care models the expected number of people who will develop psychosis in each UK locality and is recommended by NICE for guidance of allocation of resources.