/ Challenging mental health inequalities
Experts and professionals have essential skills and knowledge, but most decision-makers would recognise (in theory, at least) that those who have personal experience of living with mental health challenges can bring something special and different. But what, exactly, do they bring?
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There is much to welcome in the Children and Young People’s Green Paper. It's direct commitment to help prevent mental health problems emerging represents a shift in focus looking upstream to tackle the determinants of these problems at their root.
Mental Health Foundation volunteer Shirley Hellyar spoke to First Minister Nicola Sturgeon about mental health discrimination and what can be done to reduce stigma around mental ill-health.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
Raising awareness of any health issue is the crucial first step towards ensuring that people take action to improve their health and reduce the risk of becoming ill.
/ Prevention resources and tools
Our CEO Mark Rowland talks about the tragic suicide of his older brother, and how he believes with early intervention, it could have been prevented.
/ Prevention resources and tools
A picture tells a thousand words. A common phrase but in an era flooded with images on our screens, in our pockets and in our minds, the power of the visual image to stir emotions has never been stronger.
/ Families, children and young people
To mark International Friendship Day, a ‘Tea & Talk’ in Glasgow with four new mums, chatting about the importance of friendship for their mental health.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
Recognising the scale of the mental health crisis might be the very thing that brings about its solution.
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We’ve come a long way in public mental health in recent years. The language that we use is fundamental to that. We have managed, as a society, to move away from stigmatising and discriminatory terms like 'mental', 'maniac' and 'madman'. But what about 'murderer'?
/ Mental health in later life
What is co-production? There are many definitions. For the Social Care Institute of Excellence (SCIE), co-production is about developing more equal partnerships between people who use services, carers and professionals.
