‘Blame culture’ preventing learning from mental health deaths
A culture of blame and fear across mental health services is preventing staff from learning and reflecting following a patient...
Mental Health
Not all people who make a suicide attempt have a psychiatric diagnosis
Suicide is preventable and not inevitable. Despite this, more than 720,000 people die by suicide every year, and there are...
How physical exercise can support trauma treatment
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD) consists of three main symptom clusters: (1) re-experiencing the trauma in the present moment, (2)...
Updated review of experiences of compulsory treatment builds the case for legal reform to be grounded in lived experiences
Following large scale reviews, new legislation for England and Wales will be debated soon in Westminster, while the Scottish Government...
Nurse working to address ‘big problem’ of suicide in farming
A mental health nurse is embarking on an international study into preventing suicides among farmers. Lucia Slack, who lives on...
School connectedness may protect against suicidal ideation in adolescents
Suicide is a serious public health issue which has devastating impacts on families, friends and communities. Each year, 720,000 people...
what are the mental health risks?
Psychedelics in research, much like the flower child, was common in the 1960s. After a decline, in part driven by...
Lived experience involvement in co-developing outcome measures.
In recent years there has been a (welcome) trend towards research being carried out ‘with’ or ‘by’ members of the...
Crisis cafés: so much more than a cuppa
There isn’t one definitive way to explain what a crisis is. It is probably best described by the person themselves,...
Mental health nurse becomes first India-trained nursing director
An Indian mental health nurse who has broken barriers to attain a landmark nursing director appointment has said he wants...
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