This week (18–24 May) is Mental Health Awareness Week. The theme chosen by the Mental Health Foundation this year is kindness. Melissa Bui outlines why, in the context of COVID-19, protecting public mental health is one way the government can return the acts of kindness demonstrated by young people throughout the pandemic
Category: Mental health
Just launched: large mental health trial in schools
Last Monday marked the beginning of Children’s Mental Health Week. The spotlight this year is on early interventions through school-based support. IF researcher Melissa Bui outlines the importance of early intervention through the school system as well as in other settings
IF Manifesto Audit 1: Mental Health
IF Junior Researcher Melissa Bui looks what different parties are promising on mental health ahead of the 2019 UK General Election
Education and young people’s mental health: a new report
Cameron Leitch (IF Placement) examines the Children & Young People’s Mental Health Coalition’s report, “Making the grade: How education shapes young people’s mental health”
This week is Mental Health Awareness Week
This year’s Mental Health Awareness Week takes place from Monday 13 May to Sunday 19 May, with the principal theme of body image. David Kingman explains what Mental Health Awareness Week is about and how you can get involved
UK is lagging behind other rich countries on protecting young people’s health, new report finds
A new analysis of trends in health outcomes for young adults across a wide range of rich countries shows that the UK is doing remarkably poorly. David Kingman explains
Does moving from adolescence to adulthood have to be a cliff edge?
MENTAL HEALTH BLOG WEEK.The transition to adulthood can look like a cliff edge. Matt Jordan, who works on the Health Foundation’s Young people’s future health inquiry, sets out the conditions that can make all the difference – between falling and jumping in
Mind the gap
MENTAL HEALTH BLOG WEEK. Dr Avirup Gupta, a practising clinical psychiatrist in the NHS, describes his first-hand experience of observing the transition between child and adolescent and adult mental health care, and suggests some solutions to the problems this can entail
Down and out, down under: Youth mental health in Australia
MENTAL HEALTH BLOG WEEK. Sonia Arakkal, co-founder of Australian lobby group Think Forward, explains why the youth mental health crisis in Australia is a symptom of intergenerational inequality, and what can be done about it
Why politicians need to give young people hope
MENTAL HEALTH BLOG WEEK. Financial pressures are taking their toll on young people, and especially on young women, as a recent survey by the Young Women’s Trust reveals. Its Director of Communications and Campaigns, Joe Levenson, summarises the findings – and sounds the alarm bells