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Dennis Ougrin
Dennis Ougrin

Dr Dennis Ougrin

Consultant Child & Adolescent Psychiatrist, Reader in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Global Mental Health

Research interests

  • Child & Family
  • Psychiatry

Biography

Dr 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 a consultant child and adolescent psychiatrist leading Enhanced Treatment Service at South London and Maudsley NHS Foundation Trust. Dr Ougrin is also a Reader in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Global Mental Health at the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology and Neuroscience, King’s College London. Dr 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.  

Dr 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. Dr Ougrin has expertise in conducting randomised controlled trials in the fields of psychological therapy and mental health service models.  

Dr 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

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    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

    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...

    Twitter Spaces carers week event

    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...

    upset child

    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...

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    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.

    Teenage boy

      Research

      student-classroom2.x8b480dde
      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

      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...

      Twitter Spaces carers week event

      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...

      upset child

      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...

      Clapping Award 800x450

      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.

      Teenage boy