Lina Gega is Professor of Mental Health at the University of York and Honorary Nurse Consultant at Tees, Esk & Wear Valleys NHS Trust, with a PhD in Health Services Research from the Institute of Psychiatry, King’s College London. She is a Joint Editor of CAMH.
She has been leading NIHR-funded research with children, young people and adults affected by depression, generalised anxiety, social anxiety, specific phobias, obsessive compulsive disorder and psychosis/severe mental illness. Her expertise is in cognitive behaviour therapy and in the clinical utility of digital technologies as means to specialist interventions for mental health.
Apart from her academic leadership roles at King’s College London, Norwich Medical School and Hull York Medical School, Lina was clinical lead with teams that commissioned (Norfolk) and provided (Northumberland) primary care psychological therapy services. She works with publishers, universities, NHS services, charities and grant awarding bodies as research advisor and reviewer to support high standards in the conduct and reporting of research. She has published over 60 papers, books and book chapters, and served as editor for ‘Cogent Psychology’ and ‘Frontiers in Psychiatry’.
Links on ACAMH website
Podcasts
- Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons (2023) – In this ‘Papers Podcast’, we welcome Professor Lina Gega and Dr. Hiran Thabrew, two of the editors of the CAMH Special Issue ‘Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons’, to discuss the Special Issue and their co-produced Editorial ‘Control alt delete – technology and children’s mental health’.
- Creative Methods and Digital Media: Supporting Psychological Therapies (2022) In this podcast, we talk to Professor Lina Gega, joint editor of the Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal, about her work on several interesting projects, focusing on using creative methods and digital media to support psychological therapies.
Editorials
- CAMH Editorial: Volume 28, Issue 1, February 2023 “Editorial: Control alt delete – technology and children’s mental health” by Hiran Thabrew and Lina Gega
Recorded talks, lectures, and discussions
- CAMH 2023 Lecture CAMH journal 2023 Lecture is a free webinar featuring a series of lectures from leading researchers, academics and practitioners on key topics in the field of child and adolescent mental health. We are delighted to have a keynote lecture from Professor Sir Michael Marmot. The event will be hosted by the CAMH journal Editor in Chief Professor Bernadka Dubicka.
Blogs
- CAMH Special Issue – ‘Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons’ (2023) We are delighted to announce the release of the CAMH 2023 Special Issue on ‘Technology and Mental Health for Children and Adolescents: Pros and Cons’, edited by Lina Gega, Jennifer Martin, Kapil Sayal, and Hiran Thabrew.
- 2023 Top 10 Downloaded Journal Papers After another successful year for our three journals, the Journal of Child Psychology & Psychiatry (JCPP), the Child & Adolescent Mental Health (CAMH) journal, and JCPP Advances, we are proud to present the top 10 most downloaded papers for each journal, published in 2023, as of 27 November 2023.
