Friendships and Mental Health: Insights from the OxWell Student Survey

Duration: 18 mins DOI: 10.13056/acamh.24916

Description

The ‘Insights from the OxWell Student Survey‘ series is a new mini-in conversation series that will explore the OxWell study and the impact of its findings for parents, teachers, policymakers and mental health professionals. In this episode, Tanya Manchanda comments on the friendship findings from the OxWell survey, including an insight into the impact of friendships on mental health outcomes and friendship interventions for young people.

Learning Objectives

1. What are friendships interventions and how effective are they?
2. Definition of authentic social groups. 3. The suitability of friendship interventions for different types of mental health issues.
4. How to measure the quality of friendships.
5. Differences in gender and age groups in help-seeking behaviours.
6. Future plans for researching friendships and friendships interventions in the next OxWell wave.

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Tanya Manchanda

PhD student in the Department of Psychiatry at the University of Oxford

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