Dr Helen Bould
Deputy theme co-lead for Mental health
Workstream lead for Psychological interventions
Dr Helen Bould is a NIHR Advanced Fellow and Associate Professor in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry.
She is co-lead for the developing and piloting novel psychological interventions workstream of the mental health theme.
Her particular area of research expertise is in eating disorders. Within the Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), she is working with a range of stakeholders including people with lived experience of eating disorders, their parents and carers to develop choice architecture interventions to prevent eating disorders and body dissatisfaction, and novel virtual reality interventions to treat people with eating disorders.
Helen also works clinically in Gloucestershire Health and Care NHS Foundation Trust.
Exploring factors behind disordered eating and eating disorders
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions
Developing new virtual reality treatments for eating disorders
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions
Mindfulness for neurodivergent young adults
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions
Linking mental health records for research: Eating disorders as a test case
- Theme Translational data science
- Workstream Clinical informatics platforms
Exploring environmental risk factors for eating disorders
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions
Using choice architecture to help prevent eating disorders
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions
Changing attention bias to reduce body dissatisfaction
- Theme Mental health
- Workstream Psychological interventions