mental health

Picture show model depicting depressed young mother holding a baby. Support such as listening visits by health visitors to new mothers with mental health problems could be improved.
Primary Health Care

Better mental health support needed for new mums

Research news
05 Sep 2019
Well-being, physical and mental health: part 3. Helping service users cope with schizophrenia
Mental Health Practice

Well-being, physical and mental health: part 3. Helping service users cope with schizophrenia

CPD articles
04 Sep 2019
Rebecca Hackfath
Nursing Standard

Student’s treatment for eating disorder inspires her to become a mental health nurse

News
02 Sep 2019
Muckamore Abbey mental health hospital for people with learning disabilities
Nursing Standard

Nurse abuse claims: RCN ‘would support’ public inquiry as police probe continues

News
02 Sep 2019
Illustration of a woman shining a torch inside a man's head. Communication is not always verbal but can be expressed by behaviour. Picture: iStock
Learning Disability Practice

'I saw your behaviour as a form of communication'

Comment
21 Aug 2019
Stress
Nursing Standard

Awareness of secondary traumatic stress in emergency nursing

Clinical
20 Aug 2019
Nurses meeting to discuss and reflect following a difficult situation
Nursing Standard

Helping nurses to ‘defuse’ after difficult situations

Policy briefing
19 Aug 2019
Nurses meeting to discuss and reflect following a difficult situation
Nursing Standard

Helping nurses to ‘defuse’ after difficult situations

Policy briefing
19 Aug 2019
Illustration shows figure of woman standing on a signpost holding a telescope. 
Mental Health Practice

Mental health transformation plan limited by nurse numbers

Comment
16 Aug 2019
over 26,000 children and young people were admitted to hospital in England after poisoning themselves in 2017-18
Mental Health Practice

Public Health England reveals latest figures for admissions of young people for self-poisoning

News
16 Aug 2019
Diagnostic descriptions do not always resonate with people’s mental health experiences
Mental Health Practice

WHO’s diagnostic descriptions can alienate mental health service users

News
16 Aug 2019
Thousands of students are being accepted onto nursing courses after this summer’s A-level results, but the RCN says the profession of mental health nursing remains under threat.
Mental Health Practice

Mental health nursing under significant threat despite latest enrolments, RCN says 

News
15 Aug 2019
Mental Health Practice

Restrictive interventions: a service evaluation

Clinical
13 August 2019
Nursing Standard

Improving the awareness and care of veterans in healthcare services

Clinical
12 August 2019
Nursing Standard

Workplace stress and how not to feel undermined by other people’s negativity

Comment
06 August 2019
Nursing Standard

Workplace stress and how not to feel undermined by other people’s negativity

Comment
06 August 2019
Mental Health Practice

Resettlement experiences of African migrants in Australia and how they affect mental health

Clinical
06 August 2019
Nursing Standard

Tackling student mental health challenges together

Comment
05 August 2019

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