Charlotte Connor

• Doctor of Philosophy
• Assistant Professor (The PIPA Trial)) at University of Warwick

Background Adolescent depression can place a young person at high risk of recurrence and a range of psychosocial and vocational impairments in adult life, highlighting the importance of early recognition and prevention. Parents/carers are well placed to notice changes in their child’s emotional wellbeing which may indicate risk, and there is increa...

Background Following the emergence of COVID-19 in the UK, on March 18 th 2020 the majority of schools in England closed and families and teachers were tasked with providing educational support for children and adolescents within the home environment. Little is known, however, regarding the impact of remote teaching and learning on the mental wellbe...

Background Adolescent depression can place a young person at high risk of recurrence and a range of psychosocial and vocational impairments in adult life, highlighting the importance of early recognition and prevention. Parents/carers are well placed to notice changes in their child’s emotional wellbeing which may indicate risk, and there is increa...

Eating disorder diagnoses are characterised by a pattern of disordered eating behaviour alongside symptoms such as body dissatisfaction and preoccupation with food, weight or shape (APA in Diagnostic and statistical manual of mental disorders, DSM-5, APA, Washington, DC, 2013). Incidence rates for eating disorders have increased during the last 50...

Objective To explore lay understanding and perceptions of schizophrenia in university students. Design Qualitative study using semi-structured interviews and thematic analysis. Setting The University of Birmingham, West Midlands. Participants 20 UK home students of white British (n=5), Indian (n=5), Pakistani (n=5), African Caribbean (n=4) and d...

Introduction Non-suicidal self-injury (NSSI) and suicidal behaviour have been witnessed in children as young as 6–7 years of age, but while there are many reviews of preventative interventions for NSSI and suicide in adolescents, few have explored its prevalence in younger children and the potential impact of preventative interventions at this stag...

Recent policy guidelines highlight the importance of increasing the identification of young people at risk of developing mental health problems in order to prevent their transition to long-term problems, avoid crisis and remove the need for care through specialist mental health services or hospitalisation. Early awareness of the often insidious beh...

Introduction Family dysfunction can test the resilience of adolescents, specifically those from single parent families and those attending schools in more socio-economically challenged areas. Objectives To determine what factors are associated with resilience for those from single parent families or attend schools in more socio-economically challe...

Introduction Previous research suggests that adult anxiety disorders begin in adolescence and the transition from primary school to secondary school is the first challenge many young adolescents face, which could test their resilience for the first time. Objectives To examine students’ anxiety scores before and after their transition, and what pro...

Background No evidence based approach to reduce duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) has been effective in the UK. Existing interventions have many components and have been difficult to replicate. The majority of DUP in Birmingham, UK is accounted for by delays within mental health services (MHS) followed by help-seeking delay and, we hypothesise,...

Background: Approximately 80 000 children and young people in the UK suffer from depression, but many are untreated because of poor identification of early warning signs and risk factors. Aims: This study aimed to derive and to investigate discrimination characteristics of a prediction model for a first recorded diagnosis of depression in young...

AimThis study explores the mental health needs of teachers and how these might impact on their capacity to provide early identification and intervention strategies to support their student's emotional well-being.Method The present study surveyed a sample of UK teachers (N = 320) to explore the impact of work-related stress on their mental health an...

AimDelayed help-seeking can have serious consequences for young people with first-episode psychosis (FEP), in terms of treatment response and outcome. Young people's narratives about help-seeking are important to understand why delays occur; however, as the majority of help-seeking is initiated by family members, through a general practitioner (GP)...

PTSD and psychosis is now a recognized and adequately documented comorbidity. Its incidence is not well determined, but according to some studies, it can vary between 11% and 67% after an acute psychotic episode. Post-traumatic anxiety symptoms are not well researched by the practitioner and, therefore, it is poorly recognized and often confused wi...

Background: Interventions to reduce treatment delay in first-episode psychosis have met with mixed results. Systematic reviews highlight the need for greater understanding of delays within the care pathway if successful strategies are to be developed. Aims: To document the care-pathway components of duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) and thei...

Aims: To examine the self-critical thoughts and self-reassuring meta-cognitive capacity of those who hear voices and explore whether they are associated with the theme of voice content and appraisals of voice power and voice expressed emotion. Method: A cross-sectional design was used, combining semi-structured interviews and self-report measures....

Considerable focus has been given to the interpersonal nature of the voice‐hearing relationship and how appraisals about voices may be linked with distress and depression (the ‘cognitive model’). Research hitherto has focused on appraisals of voice power, but the supportive and affiliative quality of voices, which may act to mitigate distress, is n...

Reducing the duration of untreated psychosis (DUP) is an aspiration of international guidelines for first episode psychosis; however, public health initiatives have met with mixed results. Systematic reviews suggest that greater focus on the sources of delay within care pathways, (which will vary between healthcare settings) is needed to achieve su...

Objective: To examine whether abuse and dysfunctional parental affiliation in childhood are associated with voice appraisals of power and perceived expressed emotion, present-day shame cognitions, and depression and suicidal ideation. Method: Seventy-four voice-hearers participated. Depressive and suicidal status, childhood abuse and parental affil...