Supervisor	Gary Kupshik
Contact details	Gary.Kupshik@sept.nhs.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	Research. Service users in Bedfordshire and Luton CRHTs will be invited to participate in this study. Participants will be randomly assigned to one of two treatment conditions. A treatment as usual group which will access the Crisis Team as standard, and an experimental group which will still access treatment by the crisis team as usual, but will conjointly receive a manualised psychosocial intervention (CIM) delivered by specifically trained staff. Outcome questionnaires will be given at the time of initial acceptance into the programme and given again at discharge from the CRHT, and there will be a six month follow-up to record acute health service utilization and coping. A triangulation approach will be taken in this study in order to evaluate the value of the manualised intervention, with the use of quantitative statistical analysis, qualitative analysis, and economic analysis being implemented. The aim of the research is to consider the effectiveness of training CRHT clinicians to follow a standardised 'Crisis Intervention Manual' with the service users in their care, integrating this with usual treatment sessions.
Trainee requirements	One session per week

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“Ain’t Misbehaving”. Plan to edit a book with chapters on understanding bad behaviour from organic, behavioural, CBT, systemic and psychoanalytic perspectives for teachers and parents
Trainee requirements	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Dunstable, Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“50 Year Audit”. CAMHS in Dunstable have 50-100 casenotes going back 50 years. Aim is to undertake analysis of these files, and then explore changes over time in CAMHS presentations and approaches. Wide range of sub-projects possible as well.
Trainee requirements	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“Value of referral letters”. Project selecting 20-30 referral letters as examples of standard referrals. Discuss with all four teams in Bedfordshire including different professions, consultants from each team etc and look at similarities/difference in approach in spite of letters being the same.
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“Declined referrals: Are these children accessing alternative care in the community?” Project to explore what happens to children whose referral to CAMHS are declined, including whether they received help elsewhere and, if so, whether this was helpful and appropriate.
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“Survey on diet and eating habits in children and adolescents referred to CAMHS”. Simple survey, given increasing interest in diet and child mental health, to establish the eating patterns of children who are referred for CAMHS input and whether this is contributing in any way to their presentation.
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“Inspiration and Aspiration: Role models for young men from Black and ethnic minority groups growing up in the United Kingdom”. Planned book identifying role models for young men from ethnic minority groups, both from within the UK and abroad, to highlight the alternatives to emerging patterns of educational and social marginalisation in deprived ethnic communities in Britain.
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“Sleep problems in children with ASD and other neuro-developmental difficulties”. Review paper/booklet for parents on a problem which troubles them all very badly, and for which few current solutions are available.
Trainee requirements	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“Tourette Syndrome in ethnic minorities”. Project involving literature search and review, and interviews with child psychiatrists, to build up a picture of TS in children from minority ethnic groups.
Trainee requirements	Child and Adolescent Psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Professors Samuel Stein and Uttom Chowdhury
Contact details	samuelstein@pitchcott.demon.co.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	“Choosing a career in psychiatry”. A booklet of interviews with both very senior and recently appointed consultants in each sub-speciality as to why they chose their field, what they liked, what they didn’t like, what needs to change etc. The aim is to help trainees to make informed decisions about the area of psychiatry in which they want to train and then work.
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee

 

Supervisor	Dr Rashid Zaman
Contact details	rz218@cam.ac.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	Research. Exercise and depression - neurobiology
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee. Conditions to be discussed

 

Supervisor	Dr Rashid Zaman
Contact details	rz218@cam.ac.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	Clinical research and audits based on patient database to include bipolar affective disorder, schizophrenia and depression.
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee. Conditions to be discussed

 

Supervisor	Dr Rashid Zaman
Contact details	rz218@cam.ac.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	Research. Diabetes and depression
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee. Conditions to be discussed

 

Supervisor	Dr Rashid Zaman
Contact details	rz218@cam.ac.uk
Location	Bedfordshire (SEPT)
Description of opportunity	Special interest session. ADHD clinic possibly being established in the future.
Trainee requirements	Any psychiatry trainee. Conditions to be discussed