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Supporting Parental Mental Health and Families

admin — Tue, 10 Jan 2012 10:24:26 +0000

Families can be helped to stay together and thrive if the right support is offered at the right time. The Social Care Institute for Excellence’s (SCIE) Parental mental health resources focus on the whole family, demonstrating how parents will always receive the best support with integrated working across children's, adults' and health services.

A great new resource for young people to learn about others real life experiences of health!

admin — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 14:14:25 +0000

Youthhealthtalk!This is a website about young people’s real life experiences of health and lifestyle. This is not just a website about the medical facts, this is about real people and real lives.Watch, listen and read young people talking about their experiences, and feel free to join in the forums.

Mental Health & Debt Help Guide

admin — Wed, 02 Mar 2011 12:56:06 +0000

No debt problems are unsolvable. It mightn't be easy or quick, but there's always a route. When mental health problems are involved, some special solutions apply.

This link takes you to a free 40-page PDF booklet supported by Mind, Rethink, CAPUK and others, for people with mental health problems and those caring for them.

It covers how to handle debts when unwell, work with banks, free debt counselling, specific tips for bipolar or depression sufferers, whether to declare a condition and more.

Housebound online forum

admin — Fri, 12 Nov 2010 10:40:01 +0000

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How to look after your mental health free download

admin — Thu, 09 Sep 2010 13:31:30 +0000

It’s important to take care of yourself and get the most from life.

Mental health is about the way you think and feel and your ability to deal with ups and downs.

The mental health foundation have put together 10 practical ways to look after your mental health.

Making simple changes to how you live doesn't need to cost a fortune or take up loads of time.
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Opportunities For Involvement in National Developments in Mental Health

admin — Fri, 23 Apr 2010 09:31:39 +0000

If you have personal experience of mental distress,
or provide friends/family carer support to somebody who has,
then this may be for you.

The NMHDU (National Mental Health Development Unit – www.nmhdu.org.uk ) is part of the Department of Health, working to convert national policy in mental health and social care into active use. They develop methods, practices and resources that help improve health and social care services.
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Stamp out stigma

admin — Tue, 13 Apr 2010 13:16:46 +0000

Stamp out stigma is a campaign that aims to educate the public about the realities of mental health problems and learning disabilities and to ask them to make a pledge not to use words that can hurt, offend and stigmatise people suffering from these complex and often distressing conditions.

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Attitudes to mental illness 2010 research report

admin — Wed, 31 Mar 2010 08:37:45 +0000

The latest national statistics on Attitudes to Mental Illness produced by the Department of Health were released on 30 March 2010 according to the arrangements approved by the UK Statistics Authority.

Since March 1994, the Department of Health has placed a set of questions on TNS’s Face-to-Face Consumer Omnibus about public attitudes towards mental illness. From 1994 to 1997 the questions were asked on an annual basis and then every third year up until 2003.
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Project raises mental health awareness

admin — Tue, 23 Mar 2010 13:29:31 +0000

People with mental health issues are being helped to stay in work and return to their jobs successfully by a Doncaster-wide NHS project.

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Schools 'should promote self-esteem in young children'

admin — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 12:31:57 +0000

Children as young as eight should be taught about self-esteem in a bid to stop them developing eating disorders, a charity said today

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