Which voids can be filled through peer support?
Are mental health survivor movements about reform or revolution? Both or neither? Mark Brown looks at their history and considers their future.
Readers call for schools to support children to recognise mental health needs in friends and family
Mental Health Today received over 1,000 responses in the first two weeks of a survey measuring your views on the mental health content that should make up the much-anticipated new syllabuses.
ECT is disproportionately used to treat women and older people
The Mental Health Act is vulnerable to ageist and misogynistic application, argue Dr Anna Duxbury and Dr Stephen Weatherhead.
The complaints I never made
"I wanted to take it further, but couldn’t find it in me to face down this kind of disbelief."
Police to be required to wear body cameras in mental health settings
Seni's Law will mean better data will now have to be collected, to facilitate the monitoring of progress and highlighting of any problem areas.
Chancellor pledges to end mental health stigma in announcing new crisis hotline
120 organisations supported an open letter to the government last week calling on the Chancellor to put children at the heart of spending plans.
The resilience narrative obscures the wider causes and solutions for children’s mental health
We should not forget that a child’s strength and ability to thrive are best supported by environments that facilitate, protect and promote children’s safety and wellbeing.
Confidence is key: scheme bids to support disabled young adults into employment
How the Change 100 scheme gives disabled students and graduates not only a paid internship, but the confidence to navigate the workplace.
Suicide risk assessments have ‘no predictive value’
Mental health care professions are advised in the framework to follow the latest strong evidence that psychological therapies, specifically dialectical behaviour therapy (DBT) and cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), can effectively…
We should be looking at capacities (plural) in mental health detention decisions
A "capacity spectrum" is more suitable than a binary approach for determining whether someone should make their own treatment decisions, argues Adrian Pecotic.
