Our Background
The Anxiety and Depression in Young people (AnDY) Research Clinic – Oxford provides high quality assessment and treatment for young people aged 4 – 17 years old with anxiety and related disorders and depression, and also improved access to research opportunities.
This integrated research and clinical approach supports us to develop better assessment and treatment procedures that can be delivered rapidly to provide better care. It will also enable us to create a plan for offering this support more broadly through a national network of AnDY clinics. Find out more about our team and our research.
To find out more about referral to the clinic and what happens where you are referred, see the ‘For Families’ section.
Our Partners
Our clinic is a collaboration between:
Oxford Health BRC ‘Mental Health in Development’ theme
The Oxford Psychological Interventions for Children and adolescents (TOPIC) research group – University of Oxford
Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust Child and Adolescent Mental Health Services (CAMHS)
The clinic partners the successful AnDY Research Clinic – Reading, a collaboration between the University of Reading and Berkshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust.
Our Funders
MHID is part of the Oxford Health Biomedical Research Centre (BRC), funded by the National Institute for Health and Care Research (NIHR). The NIHR funds, enables and delivers world-leading health and social care research that improves people’s health and wellbeing and promotes economic growth. NIHR BRCs are collaborations between universities and NHS organisations, bringing together academics and clinicians to translate research into new treatments, diagnostics, and technologies. In 2022, the NIHR awarded £816 million over five years to 20 BRCs across England.
We also receive funding from Oxford Health NHS Foundation Trust and the Paul Foundation.
Mental Health in Development
The AnDY Research Clinic – Oxford is part of a wider project called Mental Health in Development (MHID). MHID aims to deliver targeted, effective and accessible mental health interventions to meet the needs of diverse children and young people (aged 0-18 years). They are doing this through a range of projects which are developing infrastructure, research capacity, and collaborations across institutions and sectors.
You might be interested in these other MHID projects:
- WISDOM (Working In Schools to Deliver On Mental health) Research Network: a research network bringing together primary and secondary schools in England with academic researchers to facilitate high quality mental health research that meets the diverse needs of school communities.
- Supporting Early Minds Research Network: a research network bringing together researchers, services, and families to develop a research agenda focused on more effective interventions to support social, emotional and cognitive development in under 5s.
- Adaptive Innovative Measurements (AIM): co-designing tools to identify and modify mechanisms that underpin the onset and persistence of common mental health problems among children and young people, and developing an online platform to host a repository of measures for researchers.
- Developing innovation in involvement in research methods for Patient and Public Involvement.