Charlotte Kitchen, Research Fellow, Department of Health Sciences
Charlotte is a Research Fellow in the Centre for Excellence in Behavioural Activation and a recent Economic and Social Research Council White Rose Postdoctoral Fellow.
Charlotte's research focuses on Behavioural Activation treatment for young people with depression, and she has a particular interest in health inequalities in Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services.
email: charlotte.kitchen@york.ac.uk
Our 60-second interview with Charlotte:
Could you please tell us what work you do in the field of mental health?
As an Economic and Social Research Council White Rose Fellow, I explored how adolescent's experiences of psychotherapy were impacted by their social, economic and environmental circumstances. In my current role as a Centre for Excellence in Behavioural Activation Fellow, I hope to promote the amazing work of academics at the University of York on Behavioural Activation and facilitate new collaborations to expand on this work.
What do you find most rewarding and inspiring in this work?
The opportunity to influence clinical training and services and the chance to improve young people's experiences of psychotherapy.
What is the most challenging or complicated aspect of this work?
Accessing data that enables me to explore my areas of interest.
What impact do you hope your work is having - or can potentially have?
I hope that we can make psychological therapy more accessible and equitable for young people from disadvantaged backgrounds. Adapting services and therapies to account for young people's life circumstances could lead to them remaining in treatment for longer and benefiting from improved mental health.
Could you share with us one piece of advice that you follow for your own mental health?
Try to get outside regularly and enjoy the beautiful countryside that I am lucky to have access to!