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Understanding mental health
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Table of Contents
Tutorial Video
Reading Materials
‘Mental health laws’ on the Rethink Mental Illness website
‘Mental Capacity Act (MCA)’ on the Social Care Institute for Excellence (SCIE) website
Laser Learning reading text ‘Mental health awareness’
‘Understanding mental health problems’ by Mind
‘Understanding mental health and wellbeing’ on the Every Mind website
‘Stigma and discrimination’ from the Mental Health Foundation
‘How the stigma of mental health Is spread by mass media’ from the Very Well Mind
‘Stereotypes, suffering, sympathy - mental health and the media’ from the British Psychological Society
‘Mental health and the NHS: What's changed and what's to come?’ on the National Institute for health and Care Excellence (NICE) website
‘Care Programme Approach (CPA)’ on the Rethink Mental Illness website
Presentation
Good Practice Example
Good Practice Example
Interactive Quiz
Evidence Opportunities
Further Reading
‘If you never fail, you never learn’: How to build your resilience’ on the BBC Radio 4 website. Click to read this article.
‘Social influences affecting mental health’ is an article on the Counselling Directory.
Click to read more about the Human Rights Act 1998 on the Mind website.
Click to read about mental health conditions on the Sane website.
Click to read a number of personal stories about mental health on the Time to Change website.
Think And Challenge
