This resource focuses on smoking among people living with a broad range of mental health conditions, ranging from low mood and common conditions such as depression and anxiety, to more severe conditions such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder.
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Natural disasters, war and racial or religious persecution bring major challenges to the mental health of those who have to flee their homelands and to those who suffer brutal violations of fundamental human rights. The British Journal of Psychiatry (BJPsych) has collaborated with the World Psychiatric Association to examine the mental health aspects of disasters and trauma, aiming to strengthen the contribution of psychiatrists to reduce distress, illness and suicidal behavior among vulnerable populations.
Guest Editors: Prof. Jonathan Bisson, Prof. Michel Botbol, Prof Edgar Jones, Prof. Jan Kizilhan and Prof. Thomas Schulze
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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.
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It is Eating Disorders Awareness week this week. Please come along to the library and have a look at our large collection of books on this complex topic
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.
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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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