DisCS is a clinical study running in Birmingham Women's and Children's NHS Foundation Trust. It is for anyone using this NHS Trust's services aged 16 or over. The aim of DisCS is to trial psychological therapy techniques to help researchers design a new therapy for dissociation in the future.

We were commissioned by the Wellcome Trust to carry out a review of the evidence for treating depersonalisation-derealisation experiences that arise in the context of anxiety, depression, and psychosis.

As part of the commission, we worked with Experts by Experience to understand the data, and to produce a summary infographic and video.

We used an online survey and machine learning analysis to understand what factors are most related to dissociation in UK residents aged 16 to 25 years.

With thanks to the University of Birmingham School of Psychology, Institute for Global Innovation, and Institute for Interdisciplinary Data Science and AI for their financial support.

Using advanced statistical techniques to develop a high quality short-form version of the ČEFSA scale and an accompanying clinical scoring guide.

Using data from the SleepWell clinical trial (Waite et al., 2023) to describe the problem of dissociation in young people at clinical Ultra High Risk of psychosis.

The SleepWell trial was funded by the NIHR.

In this project, we will survey GCSE students', undergraduate students', and NHS mental health clinicians' understanding and opinions about dissociation.

The aim is to identify any mismatches between these groups, so that we can develop clinical guidance to support clinicians working with young people who may present to NHS services asking for help with dissociative difficulties.

We are supporting researchers who are translating the ČEFSA (Černis Felt Sense of Anomaly scale) into different languages - including Ukrainian and German!

Based on emerging evidence and clinical practice, we are writing up symptom-specific guidance for clinicians working with clients experiencing dissociation. This paper will contain the key pieces of advice that Dr Emma delivers in her clinical training sessions - making this important information accessible to even more clinicians.

How common is 'felt sense of anomaly' (FSA) subtype-dissociation in adolescence? What might be its underlying psychological mechanisms? We are using two large datasets of survey data to address these questions.