/ Prevention resources and tools
AI tools bring unprecedented access to personalised mental health advice with a single click, but also come with risks around accuracy, safety and privacy. Here, we explore the potential and risks.
/ Influencing policies
Dr Antonis Kousoulis discusses the impact of Reality TV on mental health, and what the government and TV regulators are doing, and should do, about it.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
In this blog from 2019, we explore the impact the TV show Love Island has on mental health and whether anything has changed since last year's show.
/ Prevention resources and tools
Rachel talks us through why Instagram can be both good and bad for your mental health, and how to strike the balance to find healthy social media use that works for you.
/ Families, children and young people
The Mental Health Foundation welcomes the BBC’s development and launch of 'Own It', a new app that we believe can contribute significantly towards empowering children and young people to use the internet in a mentally healthy way.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
In this blog we explore the impact the TV show Love Island has on mental health and other topics, like body image.
/ Prevention resources and tools
We asked on social media "What do you do to look after your mental health?" This is what was said.
/ Challenging mental health inequalities
Rather than asking if social media is THE problem, let’s for a moment ask what the screen reflects. Our desire to capture and communicate a positive identity has always existed. Keeping diaries was all the rage for millions of our Victorian-era predecessors. Social media is the latest manifestation.
/ Families, children and young people
In this blog, Brayan Herrera, a year 12 student who has been on placement with Mental Health Foundations Policy and Research team from Haggerston School, East London, as part of the Inspire Initiative, discusses the positive and negative impacts of social media on young peoples mental health.
