Professor Dennis Ougrin
Visiting Professor
Research interests
- Child & Family
- Psychiatry
Biography
Dennis Ougrin is Professor of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Global Mental Health at Queen Mary University of London. He is a visiting professor at KCL.
Professor Ougrin graduated from a medical school in Ukraine in 1998 and came to England to undertake his post-graduate training. He completed his higher training in child and adolescent psychiatry at Guy's and Maudsley and is currently an honorary consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist at the Enhanced Treatment Service at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Professor Ougrin leads a programme of information exchange between the UK and Ukraine.
His main professional interests include prevention of Borderline Personality Disorder and effective interventions for self-harm in young people.
Professor Ougrin is the author of Therapeutic Assessment, a novel model of assessment for young people with self-harm. He also developed and tested an Intensive Community Care Service model for young people with severe psychiatric disorders called Supported Discharge Service. The model was evaluated in the first randomised controlled trial of any intensive community care service for young people in the UK. The results of the trial informed the development of intensive community care services in the UK and internationally. Professor Ougrin has expertise in conducting randomised controlled trials in the fields of psychological therapy and mental health service models.
Professor Ougrin also works on developing a modular psychotherapeutic intervention for self-harm and on understanding the pathophysiology of self-harm in young people.
Research Interests
- Self-harm in young people
- Intensive community care services for young people with severe psychiatric disorders
- Pathophysiology of self-harm
Expertise and Public Engagement
- Editor-in Chief of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Self-Harm Advisor, MindEd e-portal
- Academic Secretary, Association of Child and Adolescent Mental Health
- Academic Director, Maudsley Health services in the Middle East
Research
Self-Harm
Self-harm is the strongest predictor of eventual death by suicide in adolescence, increasing the risk up to ten-fold.
The BeST? Services Trial
This trial compares the New Orleans Intervention Model with Social Work Services-as-usual to find the best service for maltreated children going into care.
Project status: Ongoing
News
Boys twice as likely to attend hospital for self-harm during strictest lockdowns
Stricter COVID-19 lockdown measures coincided with an increase in serious self-harm triggered by social isolation in children and young people, according to a...
Experts discuss the impact of the Ukraine war on mental health care needs this Carers Week
Researchers and clinicians across several UK universities took part in a live discussion on Twitter Spaces to address family mental health and care needs...
IoPPN researchers receive Association of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Awards
Professor Barbara Maughan received the President’s medal, while Professor Dennis Ougrin received David Cottrell ‘Education of CAMH Professionals’ Award at a...
Teens with a history of self-harm have a significantly higher threshold for pain
Teenagers who have self-harmed five or more times in their life have a significantly higher threshold for pain compared to adolescents that have not.
- MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health – course leader
- MSc in Family Therapy - chair of the assessment board
- The Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia
- Therapeutic Assessment for Self-harm
Research
Self-Harm
Self-harm is the strongest predictor of eventual death by suicide in adolescence, increasing the risk up to ten-fold.
The BeST? Services Trial
This trial compares the New Orleans Intervention Model with Social Work Services-as-usual to find the best service for maltreated children going into care.
Project status: Ongoing
News
Boys twice as likely to attend hospital for self-harm during strictest lockdowns
Stricter COVID-19 lockdown measures coincided with an increase in serious self-harm triggered by social isolation in children and young people, according to a...
Experts discuss the impact of the Ukraine war on mental health care needs this Carers Week
Researchers and clinicians across several UK universities took part in a live discussion on Twitter Spaces to address family mental health and care needs...
IoPPN researchers receive Association of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Awards
Professor Barbara Maughan received the President’s medal, while Professor Dennis Ougrin received David Cottrell ‘Education of CAMH Professionals’ Award at a...
Teens with a history of self-harm have a significantly higher threshold for pain
Teenagers who have self-harmed five or more times in their life have a significantly higher threshold for pain compared to adolescents that have not.
- MSc in Child and Adolescent Mental Health – course leader
- MSc in Family Therapy - chair of the assessment board
- The Kiddie Schedule for Affective Disorders and Schizophrenia
- Therapeutic Assessment for Self-harm