Just a lil reminder today 🩵

Join us on Wear It Green Day (16 May) this #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek – and support our work to promote good mental health in every community. 💚

Download your pack to get started: bit.ly/3UtZE79https:/…

Had to share this beautiful illustration by Ind that overviews our new paper on the impact of of a #mentalhealth training for #teachers !

Read (free) here ➡️ jmir.org/2024/1/e46764/

Wow! New large RCT published in The Lancet Psychiatry finds 'exercise therapy should be implemented in outpatient mental health care as an adjunctive
transdiagnostic treatment'

Huge congrats Sebastian Wolf et al, look forward to reading this!

thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

🚨 Our Mental Health Act is outdated and in desperate need of reform.

We're determined for it to change. But when it does, how do we make sure it is fit for purpose?

Our Policy Manager, Sarah, investigates 👉 bit.ly/44aHYki

'exercise therapy should be implemented in outpatient mental health care as an adjunctive transdiagnostic treatment for mental disorders such as depression, insomnia, panic disorder, agoraphobia, and PTSD.'

New free research Article
thelancet.com/journals/lanps…

Young people's views about what kinds of loneliness intervention are likely to work for them in which contexts: very interesting findings in this new Loneliness & SI in Mental Health research network UCL Mental Health Sciences MScs led by Sharon Eager

link.springer.com/article/10.118…

Ten design principles for developing psychological treatments for psychosis. Patients and practitioners should be able to notice these as they use the intervention too. Editorial in BJPsych Journals Oxford Psychiatry cambridge.org/core/journals/…

New NHS England Guidance: Culture of care standards for #mentalhealth inpatient services, including those for people with a learning disability and autistic people. england.nhs.uk/long-read/cult… via NHS England

For #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek 2024, we’ve teamed up with our friends at Sport England to help you get moving more for your mental health.

💜 Join us 13-19 May by finding and sharing your #MomentsForMovement .
Find out more: mentalhealth.org.uk/mhaw

🚀 Passionate about advancing #mentalhealthresearch through #datascience ? Don't miss our upcoming event with MQ featuring talks by Andy Boyd, James Walters, and more! Engage in discussions and explore innovative approaches.

➡️ow.ly/RfF150QJbAi

#ECRchat

Are you aged 13-25 and passionate about influencing mental health?

If so, the Mental Health Foundation Young Leaders Project needs you! Leaders Unlocked Mental Health Foundation

Apply and find out more using the QR codes in the poster below👇

“The true sickness in this country can’t be found in a benefits office but in Downing Street. It is a political culture demonising people already suffering, and a rightwing media content to parrot the lies and bigotry it is fed.”

Me on Sunak’s “sicknotes” theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Grab your diaries - #MentalHealthAwarenessWeek is coming up in less than a month! 13th - 19th May 📅

Too many of us aren't getting the help we need. Over 2 million people are waiting for support. (1/2)

#NoMindLeftBehind

The government’s proposed new welfare reforms are a worrying step backwards.

Rather than delivering the right support for people with disabilities and health conditions, they would make it even harder for people who are out-of-work to receive much-needed financial support. 1/3

Deeply saddened by Parliament passing bill to facilitate deportations of people seeking asylum to Rwanda. The harm this could do to people’s mental health & disregard for human rights is beyond comprehension for any of us not facing this kind of threat

‘Treat mental health as we do cancer’ theaustralian.com.au/nation/politic… Australians for Mental Health urges the PM & all Premiers to act on this national public health imperative. Mental health is repeatedly pushed aside by other policy demands; every family - every community #heartsandminds Anthony Albanese

💬 Being detained under the Mental Health Act can be a confusing and isolating experience.

This post outlines the process of being detained and what support you can access 👇

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Unpaid carers contribute the equivalent of 4 million paid care workers to the social care system. But who is classed as an unpaid carer? What kind of support do they can and are they able to access it? We explore these questions in our report ➡️ kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-an…

Are you care-experienced and interested in a career in research / academia? We are advertising a paid research internship specifically for a care-experienced person (must be >18yo). Feel free to DM me with any qus Anna Freud UCL Psych & Lang Sci Lisa Holmes

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