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'The support given to young people around mental health isn't enough'

20 May 2016, Guest Blogger

Eyram Assem says young people need to be encouraged to talk about mental health more.

Why relationships are so important for children and young people

20 May 2016,

Our relationships with our children are critical for their healthy development.

Social media and young people's mental health

9 May 2016, Guest Blogger

Our work placement student Brayan Herrera looks at the impact of social media on young people's mental health.

Academic pressure, the strive for perfection and eating disorders

26 April 2016,

Does high pressure to achieve encourage greater perfectionism, triggering eating disorders in girls? Una Foye looks at the evidence.

How might mobile technology aid maternal mental health?

23 March 2016, Guest Blogger

Jose Marcano looks at maternal mental health problems and the vast potential of mobile technology to improve it.

Unprecedented rise in children being prescribed anti-depressants

9 March 2016, Isabella Goldie

The World Health Organisation has raised concerns about an unprecedented rise in the number of children being prescribed anti-depressants in UK.

Supporting mothers to stay mentally well

6 March 2016,

We asked mums what their tips are to support mothers to stay mentally well. This is what they said.

The things I would tell myself before I had children

3 March 2016, Guest Blogger

Emi Watson, mum of two, contemplates what she would tell her 'childless' self.

Maternal mental health is everyone's business...but we need leadership from Stormont

29 February 2016,

Iris Elliott examines maternal mental health support in her native Northern Ireland.

Preventing suicide and poor mental health in new mums

11 December 2015, Rachel Gregory

A recent study by The Confidential Enquiry into Maternal Deaths, based at the University of Oxford, found that ‘around half of suicides by women while pregnant or after giving birth could be prevented by better standards of care’. Rachel Gregory, Project Manager of Mums in Babies in Mind, a partnership between the Maternal Mental Health Alliance and the Mental Health Foundation, comments.