Together with Dr. Maria Loades
Together
Wednesday, December 13, 2023 - 19 minutes
Jack Eason takes time to speak with Dr. Maria Loades, who focuses on young people’s mental health. While her attention was not centered on loneliness when the COVID-19 pandemic started, after the quarantine measures started, she discussed the impact isolation would have on young people's ability to connect socially. The concern over the impact to mental health led to a study by Dr. Maria Loades and her team.
Led by Dr. Maria Loades, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath, the team of clinical psychologists established how loneliness and disease containment steps will impact the mental health of kids and young people alike.
Dr. Maria Loades is a Clinical Tutor for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme. Maria qualified as a Clinical Psychologist from the University of East Anglia in 2008. Since qualification, she has worked a variety of mental health settings, including adult mental health, a children’s inpatient unit, and various community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). She completed a post-graduate diploma in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for children, young people and families at the Anna Freud Centre/University College London in 2013, and a Postgraduate Certificate in the Supervision of Applied Psychology Practice at the University of Oxford in 2015.
Maria is an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP) and is also registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council. She secured an NIHR doctoral research fellowship in 2016 to further her research into depression in paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME), which she will be undertaking in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol, and the Paediatric CFS team at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.
Read more about Dr. Maria Loades' study at The University of Bath - https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/impact-of-childrens-loneliness-today-could-manifest-in-depression-for-years-to-come/
Grab your copy of Jack Eason's latest book TOGETHER: Abandoning Loneliness for the Power of Community at https://www.jackeason.org/books/#loneliness
Statistics show that, despite our connected world--and partly because of it--we are lonelier than ever. Social media tricks us into thinking that we are engaged in genuine friendships, except we never quite get beyond that feeling of being outside someone else's life and looking in every so often at what they choose to show the world. Instead of intimacy we get little more than what amounts to digital small talk. But there is a solution.
With plenty of good humor and practical advice, Jack Eason invites you to discover the benefits of doing life together with other brothers and sisters in Christ. Grounding his message in Scripture, Eason helps you
- learn the obstacles to real community
- reimagine what real friendship looks like
- discover a place of true belonging
- and more
If you're tired of feeling lonely, this encouraging and community-building book is just what you need.
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