The Jack Eason Podcast - Episode 020 - Dr. Maria Loades

Jack Eason takes time to speak with Dr. Maria Loades, who focuses on young people’s mental health. While her attention was not centered on loneliness when the COVID-19 pandemic started, after the quarantine measures started, she discussed the impact isolation would have on young people's ability to connect socially. The concern over the impact to mental health led to a study by Dr. Maria Loades and her team.

Led by Dr. Maria Loades, from the Department of Psychology at the University of Bath, the team of clinical psychologists established how loneliness and disease containment steps will impact the mental health of kids and young people alike.

Dr. Maria Loades is a Clinical Tutor for the Doctorate in Clinical Psychology programme. Maria qualified as a Clinical Psychologist from the University of East Anglia in 2008. Since qualification, she has worked a variety of mental health settings, including adult mental health, a children’s inpatient unit, and various community Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS). She completed a post-graduate diploma in cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) for children, young people and families at the Anna Freud Centre/University College London in 2013, and a Postgraduate Certificate in the Supervision of Applied Psychology Practice at the University of Oxford in 2015.

Maria is an accredited Cognitive Behavioural Psychotherapist, Supervisor and Trainer with the British Association for Behavioural and Cognitive Psychotherapists (BABCP) and is also registered with the Health and Care Professionals Council. She secured an NIHR doctoral research fellowship in 2016 to further her research into depression in paediatric Chronic Fatigue Syndrome (CFS/ME), which she will be undertaking in collaboration with colleagues from the School of Social and Community Medicine at the University of Bristol, and the Paediatric CFS team at the Royal United Hospital in Bath.

Read more about Dr. Maria Loades' study at The University of Bath - https://www.bath.ac.uk/announcements/impact-of-childrens-loneliness-today-could-manifest-in-depression-for-years-to-come/