Has ‘IAPT’ eaten itself?
Philip K. Marzouk, a former counsellor, discusses how mental health staff wellbeing is a reason why such vast numbers are leaving the NHS.
How the NHS’s ten-year plan promises to prioritise mental health
NHS England admit they may need a full decade to ensure that 100 percent of children and young people who need specialist care can access it.
The government needs to tie up its policies on mental health – National Education Union
Parliament is set to debate the content of new mental health lessons this year. Meanwhile, schools standards regulator Ofsted is poised to begin assessing wellbeing provision as part of its inspections programme.…
Looking back, I can see how many of my fellow students were struggling – I was one of them
Plans to introduce mental health lessons to the national curriculum in 2020 are long overdue, argues Jessica Murray, 23, a trainee counsellor and mother who lives with a borderline personality…
Compassion Focussed Therapy can inform our understanding of politics
Michael O'Sullivan, an NHS mental health therapist, discusses how Compassion Focussed Therapy can help us to understand our current political climate.
What were you reading in 2018? MHT’s top 20 articles of the past twelve months revealed…
You visited Mental Health Today's pages in your hundreds of thousands again in 2018.
Reading minds: the best mental health novels and memoirs of 2018
As the year draws to a close, Sadie Nott presents a roundup of 2018’s prize winning, praised and bestselling novels and memoirs with mental health themes.
How the mechanisms of depression are reflected in language
Michael O'Sullivan, a mental health therapist for NHS Derbyshire Healthcare Foundation Trust, explains how depression can reveal itself through the means of language.
New York State as a model for a mandatory mental health curriculum
In light of a mandatory mental health curriculum being announced for September 2020, Chloe Apter looks at New York State as a model of a mandatory mental health curriculum.
Report shows that therapy dogs may reduce risk of self-harm in prisoners
A pilot scheme examining the effects of therapy dogs on prisoners by was launched in three prisons by Rethink Mental Illness.