Children living with parents with emotional distress: March 2020 update
Official statistics on the proportion of children living with at least one parent with symptoms of emotional distress.
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Category: Mental Health
Virtual Training
Support for navigating mental health & wellbeing in response to COVID-19
The i-resilience report is a resilience tool available completely free to use. It includes a webinar from Professor Ivan Robertson, insight from Professor Sir Cary Cooper, a downloadable check-in tool to help you understand your pressure, and more.
Register here.
Every Mind Matters
10 tips to help if you are worried about coronavirus
The coronavirus (COVID-19) outbreak means that life is changing for all of us for a while. It may cause you to feel anxious, stressed, worried, sad, bored, lonely or frustrated.
It’s important to remember it is OK to feel this way and that everyone reacts differently. Remember, this situation is temporary and, for most of us, these difficult feelings will pass.
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Low mood, sadness and depression
Most people feel low sometimes, but if it’s affecting your life, there are things you can try that may help.
Support is also available if you’re finding it hard to cope with low mood, sadness or depression.
Read here for more information and details of what support is available.
University Mental Health Day
Thursday 5th March
University Mental Health Day brings together the university community to make mental health a university-wide priority and create ongoing year round change to the future of student mental health.
For more information see here
Health Inequalities
Tackling social inequalities to reduce mental health problems
This report from the Mental Health Foundation emphasises that people who are disadvantaged are at a greater risk of developing a mental health problem. If social inequalities are addressed, it could improve individual and collective wellbeing.
Read the report here
Mental Health
Can light activity improve mental health for teenagers?
NHS Behind the Headlines evaluates the results of a study which found that people who spent more time doing light activity as teenagers had lower depression scores at the age of 18 than those who had spent more time sitting down.
Read more about the study here
Local Government Association
Building resilience: how local partnerships are supporting children and young people’s mental health and emotional wellbeing
Too many children and young people nationally do not receive the support they need to improve their mental health and wellbeing. The purpose of this research (commissioned from Isos Partnership) is to explore some of the factors that are contributing to this nationally challenging context, and to develop an evidence base for how local government and its partners can work most effectively together to deliver a coherent and joined-up offer of support for children and young people’s mental health.
Read the report here
Care Quality Commission
Monitoring the Mental Health Act in 2018/19
The Mental Health Act 1983 is the legal framework that provides authority to detain and treat people who have a mental illness and need protection for their own health or safety, or for the safety of other people. The latest monitoring report finds there has been an improvement in the number of people being given information about their rights and being offered the support of an independent mental health advocate (IMHA). However, services need to do more to ensure that they are complying with their human rights duties.
Read the report here
News
NHS may use people’s phone data to predict mental health issues
Following a successful trial, Birmingham and Solihull Mental Health NHS Foundation Trust is considering the roll-out of an app with a machine-learning algorithm that uses mobile phone data to predict who is at risk of having a mental health crisis.
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