Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards winners announced
The winners of the Positive Practice in Mental Health Awards were announced last Thursday, which celebrated some of the best in mental health practice.
Music therapy reduces depression in young people, study suggests
In the largest study of its kind, researchers have found that music therapy can reduce depression in children and adolescents with behavioural and emotional problems.
Getting involved with communities
Involvement with service users is an increasingly important part of mental health social work training, but issues of funding and engagement with all communities risk holding it back. Raza Griffiths…
Outcry over ‘lunatic and psycho’ Halloween costumes
An online fancy dress retailer’s range of Halloween costumes, which include outfits called ‘Adult psycho ward’ and ‘adult Skitzo costume’ has been heavily criticised by mental health campaigners.
Perinatal mental health problems demand greater government priority
A report published this week calculated the cost of perinatal mental health problems to the UK economy, and once again showed why tackling those problems needs to be more of…
National sport programme to be launched to tackle mental health
England’s first large-scale programme to use sport to improve the lives of 75,000 people experiencing mental ill health is to launch next year.
Perinatal mental health problems cost UK £8.1 billion per year, report claims
Perinatal mental health problems cost the UK £8.1 billion each year and the NHS needs to spend £337 million a year to bring care up to the recommended level, a…
British team to deliver two-year suicide prevention nursing programme in India
A team from Edge Hill University in Ormskirk, Lancashire, is to a deliver a mental health training programme focused on interventions for those who have attempted suicide for nurses in…
Scottish Medicines Consortium recommends Latuda as a schizophrenia treatment
The Scottish Medicines Consortium has recommended Latuda (lurasidone) as a new once-daily oral treatment for schizophrenia in adults aged 18 and over as an alternative treatment option in patients.
Young people call for more support to protect their mental wellbeing
Young people say that pressures in their lives such as bullying and exams are affecting their mental health and have called for more support.