Dr Vashti Berry
Associate Professor in Prevention Science
- Child Health & Maternity group member
Expertise
Children’s mental health, service design and evaluation
Biography
I joined PenARC in March 2014. I am a prevention scientist with an interest in prevention and early intervention to benefit children’s psychosocial and mental health. I work with partner organisations and agencies to develop and evaluate services to respond to particular needs or target groups. I am particularly interested in family-based interventions and support for children and young people exposed to family violence and abuse.
Projects
- INTEGRATED – Integrated Parenting and Financial Wellbeing Support
- Income maximisation for families: exploring implementation and impact
- Kailo – A systemic approach to improving adolescent mental health
- Review of evidence on implementation in education
- CHOICES: CHildren and young people’s Options In the Community for Enhancing wellbeing through Social prescribing.
- Trauma-focused Cognitive Behavioural Therapy for children in care (ADaPT)
- Evaluating models of health-based mateRnIty Violence Advisor (RIVA) provision in maternity services
- BRUSH (optimising toothBrushing pRogrammes in nUrseries and ScHools)
- Children’s Health and Maternity programme
- PhD Project – What community-based, public health interventions might have combined impacts on alcohol and substance misuse, domestic violence and mental health?
- Feasibility study and pilot outcomes evaluation of Becoming a Man
- Looked After Children Transition Hub
- Healthy Parent Carers
- How can schools best support parents’ engagement in their children’s learning?
Publications
- Transporting an Evidence-based Youth Development Program to a New Country: A Narrative Description and Analysis of Pre-implementation Adaptation
- Healthy Parent Carers: Acceptability and practicability of online delivery and learning through implementation by delivery partner organisations
- Barriers and facilitators in the delivery of a proportionate universal parenting program model (E-SEE Steps) in community family services
- Becoming A Man (BAM) Feasibility study report
- A survey and stakeholder consultation of Independent Domestic Violence Advisor (IDVA) programmes in English maternity services
- How can we optimise learning from trials in child and adolescent mental health?
- Family focused interventions that address parental domestic violence and abuse, mental ill-health, and substance misuse in combination: A systematic review
- Does Social and Economic Disadvantage Predict Lower Engagement with Parenting Interventions? An Integrative Analysis Using Individual Participant Data
- Prioritising child health and maternity evidence-based interventions or service models: a stakeholder-driven process
- “What works” registries of interventions to improve child and youth psychosocial outcomes: A critical appraisal
- The use of social prescribing and community-based wellbeing activities as a potential prevention and early intervention pathway to improve adolescent emotional and social development
- Healthy Parent Carers programme: mixed methods process evaluation and refinement of a health promotion intervention
- Healthy Parent Carers: feasibility randomised controlled trial of a peer-led group-based health promotion intervention for parent carers of disabled children
- Enhancing Social-Emotional Outcomes in Early Years (E-SEE): Randomized Pilot Study of Incredible Years Infant and Toddler Programs
- The longitudinal relationship between child emotional disorder and parental mental health in the British Child and Adolescent Mental Health surveys 1999 and 2004
- Promoting Learning from Null or Negative Results in Prevention Science Trials
- The effectiveness of a mentoring program for children aged 5-11 years: results from a randomized controlled trial
- The effectiveness of a therapeutic parenting program for children aged 6-11 years with behavioral or emotional difficulties: results from a randomised controlled trial
- The effectiveness of the KiVa bullying prevention rogram in Wales, UK: resuts from a pragmatic cluster randomized controlled trial
- Healthy Parent Carers peer-led group-based health promotion intervention for parent carers of disabled children: protocol for a feasibility study using a parallel group randomised controlled trial design
- How Can Schools Support Parents’ Engagement in their Children’s Learning? Evidence from Research and Practice.
- Could Mindfulness-Based Cognitive Therapy prevent a lifelong recurrent course of depression or anxiety by addressing key mechanisms of vulnerability in high-risk adolescents?
- Experiences of interventions aiming to improve the mental health and well-being of children and young people with a long-term physical condition: A systematic review and meta-ethnography
- Assessing the Feasibility of a Parent Life Coaching Intervention to Support Parents and Children Who Have Experienced Domestic Violence and Abuse
- Do parenting interventions increase social inequalities in child conduct problems? Pan-European Individual Participant Data (IPD) meta analysis
- Interventions for reducing unplanned paediatric admissions: an observational study in one hospital
- The effectiveness of Chance UK’s mentoring programme in improving behavioural and emotional outcomes in primary school children with behavioural difficulties: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
- The effectiveness of the Inspiring Futures parenting programme in improving behavioural and emotional outcomes in primary school children with behavioural or emotional difficulties: study protocol for a randomised controlled trial
- The Parent Programme Implementation Checklist (PPIC): The development and testing of an objective measure of skills and fidelity for the delivery of parent programmes
- Mindfulness-based cognitive therapy for young people and their carers: A mixed-methods feasibility study
- Perfect bedfellows: why early intervention can play a critical role in protecting children – a response to Featherstone et al. (2014) ‘A marriage made in hell: child protection meets early intervention’
- The effectiveness of the Incredible Years pre-school parenting programme in the United Kingdom: a pragmatic randomised controlled trial
- Incredible Years parenting programme: Cost-effectiveness and implementation
- Effectiveness and micro-costing of the KiVa school-based bullying prevention programme in Wales: study protocol for a pragmatic definitive parallel group cluster randomised controlled trial
- Innovations in Practice: Further evidence on the effectiveness of the strengths and difficulties added value score as an outcome measure for child and adolescent services