Dedicated to the psychiatric well-being of children, the Greenwood Research Institute opened in Leicester in the Summer of 1993.
Thanks to the imagination of Mr. Greenwood and the Children's Research Fund, a fruitful partnership has developed whereby practical lessons in child mental health can be researched, and put into practice.
The location for this modern research institute is pretty ironic. A series of broken down stables and a leaky gate house hardly seems the best place for anything considered 'modern.' Yet somehow, the potential for conversion was seen in the rickety garage doors and the trees sprouting out of the foundations. So, not only were these old buildings converted, but a formidable computer network, with an internal nervous system, was installed to link it with the outside world.
The institute concentrates on research profiles in four main areas:
Effective Research Practice
Fundamental Child Psychiatric Research
Multi-disciplinary Staff Training
Specific Research Projects
Each area of research falls into one of two categories:
Long term, substantial research programmes
Short term research projects
Specifically, each project consists of eight long term projects and twelve short term projects. These are:
Long Term
- Young Offenders Project
- The Efficacy of a Cognitive Behavourial Treatment Programme for Adolescents with Sexually Offending Behaviour
- Development of Child Relations Test
- The Placebo Complex Project
- University Student Health Project
- Leicester Pre-school Children Project
- Behaviour problems in Learning Disabled Children
- Various Russian Projects
Short Term Projects
- The Multi-disciplinary Team in Learning Disabilities
- The Management of Deliberate Self Harm in Primary Care
- Follow up of Young People with Learning Disabilities
- Anxiety In Childhood
- Parent Held Records
- Mentally Disturbed Parents
- Dyspraxia in Children Attending a Child Psychiatric Clinic
- Specialist Registrar Training Research Methods
- Severe Asthma in Adolescence
- Assessing Clinical Psychiatry Skills
- Postnatal Depression
- Teaching Tomorrow's Doctor's
I am particularly impressed with the extent of the research that this institute covers. In a World dealing with an increase in troubled children, ALL research must be welcomed. Our children are our future and therefore we must protect them and help them, not only for their benefit, but for the benefit of mankind in the years to come.
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