Friday, 8 February 2008

Mental Health and Well-being Resources


What is Mental Health?

Alcohol
How much alcohol is too much?

Alcohol Awareness Poster

Promoting Mental Well-being

Ideas from young people on promoting mental well-being.

Key indicators of promoting mental well-being

Check out these guides from Mind, the leading mental health charity in England and Wales.

http://www.mind.org.uk/

How to cope with relationship problems?

How to improve your mental well-being?

How to stop worrying?

Coping with sleep problems

How to look after yourself?

The Mind Guide to managing stress

How to deal with anger

How to cope with student life

How to increase your self esteem

Learning to cope with exam stress

How to assert yourself

Posters and Practical Resources

Looking after yourself poster - http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/

Mental Health - Blood, Sweat, No Tears poster - http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/

Retracking Folder

Resources for teachers - NHS Surrey

Ideas from Foyer residents around mental well-being

Mental Health Issues

Understanding Mental Illness

About Self Harm

How to cope with panic attacks

Understanding Depression

Street Drugs 2007

Understanding Anxiety

Eating Distress

Understanding Psychotic Experiences

Department of Health - Promoting Well-being For People At Risk Of Mental Health Problems

Online Resources on Mental Well-being

Young Minds www.youngminds.org.uk
The leading national charity on mental health and children and young people. Have online information for young people, professionals and parents. Excellent leaflets on coping with being a teenager, coping at schools, self harm, depression and more.


Royal College of Psychaitrists

www.rcpsych.ac.uk
The website includes online factsheets for teachers and students on subjects including bereavement, eating problems, depression, divorce, and stress. A new CD ROM teaching resource is also available Self Harm and Young People


Self Harm
Website of the national inquiry into self harm and young people. Useful information sheets for teachers and families and good links section. Up to date research on the issue.

http://www.selfharmuk.org/


Mental Health Foundation www.mentalhealth.org.uk
The Mental Health Foundation works to improve the lives of everyone with mental health problems or learning disabilities.

Samaritans www.samaritans.org.uk
Provides an email advice service and telephone helpline 08457 90 90 90 and lots of useful information and advice about mental health.


MIND www.mind.org.uk


BBC
www.bbc.co.uk/health/conditions/mental_health

Site giving information on mental health

Depression Alliance www.depressionalliance.org
Charity for those affected by depression

Eating Disorders Association
www.edauk.com
Information and help on all aspects of eating disorders.


Changing Minds
www.changingminds.co.ukAnti-stigma campaign by Royal College of Psychiatrists.

Be...foundation www.be-foundation.org
Aims to offer a comprehensive source of help and information on youth suicide and deliberate self-harm.

Rethink www.rethink.org
Rethink aims to help everyone affected by severe mental illness to recover a better quality of life.

Sainsbury Centre for Mental Health
www.scmh.org.uk

Healthy Schools
www.wiredforhealth.gov.uk

Antidote: Campaign for Emotional Literacy www.antidote.org.uk
Antidote aims to create an emotionally literate culture, where the ability to handle emotional life is as widespread as the capacity to read, write and do arithmetic.


Lucky Duck Publishing

www.luckyduck.co.uk
The creators of the no blame approach to bullying.

National Emotional Literacy Interest Group
www.nelig.com
The site aims to promote and resource emotional literacy defined as, "the ability to recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express emotions" for both young people and adults. It includes articles and signposting to useful teaching resources on emotional literacy that may be of use to teachers.


Very useful guidelines and resources on promoting emotional literacy in schools including books for children and emotions vocabulary available to download from:


http://www.nelig.com/pdf/selig_guidelines.pdf

Youth In Mind http://www.youthinmind.com/



Check out http://www.ru-ok.com/ - a site set up to support learning mentors and teachers

Bullying

Bullying Online www.bullying.co.uk
This website provides help and advice on bullying issues for pupils, parents, governors and teachers. It also includes legal advice, school projects and suggestions for work in class and youth clubs.
Kidscape
www.kidscape.org.uk
Kidscape is a registered charity that aims to keep children safe from harm or abuse. The site includes advice for young people and parents who are being bullied as well as publications and leaflets produced by the organisation.

Anti-Bullying Alliance
www.ncb.org.uk/aba

Other Useful Publications

Nurturing Emotional Literacy – Peter Sharp
A practical guide for teachers, parents and those in a caring profession. This book helps to recognise, understand, handle and appropriately express their emotions. How we manage our emotions and positive impact that emotional literacy can have on improving standards in schools has been overshadowed recently by the attention given to the 3 R’s. This handbook seeks to redress this and looks at the importance of the fourth R – relationship. Specific ideas for working with children, teachers, parents and carers, makes this book ideal for all concerned with developing the whole child.

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