In this keynote, Louise Dalton presents her programme of work entitled the Oxford Brain Story. She shares how she has used the Brain Story metaphors to embed an understanding of how our earliest experiences can affect long term mental and physical health. Engaging partners across health, social care, criminal justice system, education, policy makers and the community, she aims to establish a shared scientific understanding across sectors and a shared language to talk about the impact of adversity. Louise discusses her different methods for dissemination and implementation as well as quantitative and qualitative evaluation.
Dr Louise Dalton is Associate Professor & Consultant Clinical Psychologist at the University of Oxford’s Department of Psychiatry. In addition to partnering with Dr Elizabeth Rapa and the Palix Foundation on the Oxford Brain Story, Louise’s research group is also currently investigating effective communication with children about their own or an important adult’s illness, and reducing depression in the next generation of adolescents by targeting depression in their parents.