Dr Helen Bould
BA, BmBCH, MA
Current positions
Consultant Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
Bristol Medical School (PHS)
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Research interests
I am a Consultant Senior Lecturer in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry. Much of my research to date has used epidemiology and experimental psychology/cognitive neuroscience to develop a better understanding of the aetiology of eating disorders, with the aim of enabling the development of better prevention and treatment interventions in this field. My PhD used cognitive neuroscience techniques to investigate how women perceive their own and others bodies, and whether it is possible to shift their perception of body size. I have also used large data sets to study the aetiology of eating disorders, including demonstrating for the first time the relationship between eating disorders and schools.
I am interested in researching child and adolescent mental health more broadly, and I have recently been awarded a grant to begin work on understanding the relationship between, and common causal pathways to, eating disorders and self harm in young people.
As a Consultant Senior Lecturer, I spend half my week in the University of Bristol, and half my week working with children, young people and their families and carers in clinic in Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Projects and supervisions
Research projects
“Can sharing app data assist communication and rapport between young people and mental health practitioners and enhance clinical consultations?
Principal Investigator
Role
Co-Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
01/02/2022 to 25/07/2022
Eating Disorder Stakeholder Group
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
31/03/2021 to 31/07/2021
Rework of Self-harm and eating disorders: are they associated with earlier emotional dysregulation
Principal Investigator
Managing organisational unit
Bristol Medical School (PHS)Dates
16/09/2019 to 09/02/2022
Thesis supervisions
Publications
Recent publications
01/01/2023A Quantitative Comparison of Manual vs. Automated Facial Coding Using Real Life Observations of Fathers
Pervasive Computing Technologies for Healthcare - 16th EAI International Conference, PervasiveHealth 2022, Proceedings
Digital Technology Use and Mental Health Consultations
JMIR Mental Health
Mental Health Practitioners’ and Young People’s Experiences of Talking About Social Media During Mental Health Consultations
JMIR Formative Research
“Pouring their heart out in Sainsbury’s”: qualitative study of young people’s, parents’ and mental health practitioners’ experiences of adapting to remote online mental health appointments during COVID-19
BMC Psychiatry
The relationship between body dissatisfaction and attentional bias to thin bodies in Malaysian Chinese and White Australian women
Royal Society Open Science