Graduation ceremony for first peer mentors in mental health
A group of mental health service have gained a nationally-recognised qualification after…
Self-help books to be prescribed to help people with moderate mental health problems
A new scheme allowing GPs and mental health professionals to prescribe self-help…
Paying attention to ADHD
Clinicians and parents are often reluctant to give medication to pre-school children…
Avatars help people with schizophrenia to silence voices in trial study
Using avatars can help to treat people with a diagnosis of schizophrenia…
Computerised CBT can have positive effect on depression, study finds
Computerised cognitive behavioural therapy that does not use a human psychotherapist can…
Government must look to reform work capability assessment
The Appeal Court’s decision last week to rule that the work capability…
Children in cities have higher ADHD risk, study suggests
Unborn babies and infants exposed to high levels of traffic pollution in…
Administrators brought in to run Mental Health Care
Residential mental health care charity Mental Health Care Ltd, which operates 2…
Mental health hospital brings in pets as therapy
A mental health hospital in Bierley, near Bradford, is running an initiative…
DSM-5 will cause “confusion, chaos and distress” say Anxiety UK
The new fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental…