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Service users back London’s new place of safety model

The rest of London looks set to follow the example set at…

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How to use art to boost mental health in inpatient units

Nicolette Loizou examines a project from charity, Paintings in Hospitals, using art to improve NHS waiting…

Nicolette Loizou

Here’s why young people are drawn to online counselling

Children and young people are attracted to safe places where they can be themselves.

Aaron Sefi

Facebook ‘robot’ moderators deployed on suicide watch

Do we feel comforted or threatened by Facebook using robot moderators on…

Mark Brown

Exclusive interview: ‘This is a once in a generation opportunity to make mental health care civilised, not coercive’

Our exclusive with the psychiatrist overseeing the review of the Mental Health…

Barney Cullum

Rethink lead new charity to help MH sufferers with money problems

Rethink Mental Illness have joined with charities to support people with money…

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This is how to provide nurse-led emergency mental health care

Mental Health Today spoke to Deputy Director of Nursing, Sharon Spain, about…

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Meeting the needs of children in care

A call for clear accountability to ensure that every child and young…

Paul Burstow

Is cyber surveillance the new mental health care?

Researchers have found evidence that machine learning can spot signs of depression from…

Mark Brown

The opposite of depression is play

Allen Baird explores the medicinal value of play and practical ways to…

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