honour advance notices give individuals the right to know what treatment is planned for them when they are first sectioned for mental health care allow individuals to nominate which relative can ...

NHS Digital claimed to 'meet' Freedom of Information Law in sharing the archived webpage pictured above this week. It's the latest setback for patient trust in crisis care. But a revised Mental Health ...

Since 2019, Mental Health Today has published resources to assist educators in getting the classroom discussion on mental health right and has successfully campaigned for mandatory mental health ...

At Mental Health Today we share positive and innovative examples of mental health care. Mental health care in the UK is precious but it often doesn't look how we'd like it to look. Too often, it doesn ...

Crisis Resolution Teams are now an established part of mental health services, but their performance across the country varies, as recent research has shown. Dr Brynmor Lloyd-Evans, manager of the ...

Animals can have a positive impact on mental health, as an example of one lady and her dog demonstrates: Animals have the capacity to influence positive emotional responses; they can lift our mood, ...

Self-harm is when an individual injures themselves or damages their own body, usually as a way of managing or exercising control over internal pain or emotional trauma. Self-harm in itself is not a ...

At HMP Young Offenders Institute Feltham in London, cell curtains must remain open in daytime or inmates face being disciplined. This rule may sound straightforward, but it presents a real challenge ...

Spaces are filling up quick on the NEON Trial. If you, or someone you know, has experience of psychosis, mental health problems, or if you have experience of caring for someone with mental health ...

Self-help groups can have a positive impact on people with hoarding disorder, particularly in engaging them in services. Sophie Holmes, Patrick Wolter and Clodagh Harris evaluate the impact of a group ...

This briefing from Agenda is based on Freedom of Information requests sent to all 58 mental health trusts in England on the use of physical and face-down restraint against women and girls. The report ...

Post-traumatic disorders are conditions that develop during or after a distressing and profound event or series of events that have a lasting impact on a person’s life. These could be incidents that ...