Centre for Mental Health appoints new Head of Children and Young People’s Mental Health
We’re delighted that Kadra Abdinasir will be leading the Centre’s work to improve mental health support for children and young people
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Early help for children’s mental health: implications of the Children’s Commissioner’s report
Andy welcomes an increase in funding but highlights the wide variations in investment between local areas
Centre for Mental Health to review impact of schools on young people’s wellbeing
We’ve been selected by the Health Foundation, alongside the Children and Young People’s Mental Health Coalition, to investigate the impact of schools on young people’s wellbeing
Can social media help young people’s emotional wellbeing?
Andy asks whether we are missing an important opportunity to use social media as an ally for young people’s mental health
Living with bipolar 1 disorder: Eleanor’s story
Eleanor reflects on her diagnosis as a teenager and what has helped her to manage her mental health
A vision for prevention
Priorities for the Government’s green paper on health prevention
The mental health impacts of divisive policies in schools – learning from the past
David looks back at the damaging impact of Section 28 on young LGBT people, and calls on the system to learn from its past
Part 2: Chronic conditions, personalised care, ongoing support – but not for mental health?
Accepting that you will never be fully free of things that cause you difficulties is not a defeat, especially where an understanding of how they cause difficulties is part of finding ways of living better with them. And that means resources. Social care could provide some of the ongoing long-term care and support for people
Economic theories and public services: video series
Explore how economic theory impacts public service commissioning through our series of short videos
Care not containment: Setting a radical vision for transforming mental health support
An independent report developed by an expert group including the Centre to explore how to reduce reliance on restrictive environments and shift to earlier interventions