a wellbeing society

Social services are broken. How can we fix them?

Hilary Cottam – author of Radical Help – wants to redesign the welfare state using the power of relationships. This has relevance to the subject of mental health not only because the UK’s National Health Service (NHS) is a major part of…
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An Educator’s Guide to Mental Health and Wellbeing in School

The publishers of this book say : “A brilliant and practical collection of essays by educators, psychologists and counsellors, highlighting the critical importance of mental health and wellbeing of students in our schools. The book has been collated and edited by…
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The new science of psychedelics

Writing in The New Statesman , Tim Martin says: “Seventy-five years ago, in April 1943, the research chemist Albert Hofmann did something distinctly out of scientific character. Impelled by what he later called a “peculiar presentiment”, he resolved to take a second look…
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Social Isolation Predicts Frequent Attendance in Primary Care

Currently, mental health services in the UK are mostly accessed through General Practitioners (GPs), by means of a GP-conducted first assessment of the patient’s mental health. This gives particular relevance to a study reported in the Annals of Behavioral Medicine , the abstract of which…
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The Development of Green Care in Western European Countries

This review-article appeared in EXPLORE: The Journal of Science and Healing. The publishers say that it: “… represents a review of green care across Western European countries. The following questions are addressed: What is green care, and what are its basic goals? What are the most commonly…
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The era of circadian lighting in health care is dawning

With relevance to the design of psychiatric hospital wards (and beyond) … Stacey Burling reports for The Philadelphia Inquirer reports: “The Medical Behavioral Unit at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia [CHOP] was an unusual concept from the start. The first of its kind…
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‘Transform school culture to boost mental health’

Writing in the Times Educational Supplement , Natasha Devon says: “Last week, Damian Hinds announced that there would be mandatory mental health education in all primary and secondary schools across England from 2020. The education secretary’s proposal states that children should be taught how to be more…
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