Children & Young People publications

Against the odds

How can young African Caribbean men's resilience be improved?Read more

Meeting us where we're at

Our evaluation of three projects developed by MAC-UK, working with excluded young peopleRead more

Missed opportunities

We reviewed recent evidence about children's mental health, and found that children wait on average 10 years before receiving help.Read more

Children of the new century

The mental health findings of the Millennium Cohort study of 11-year-olds across the UK.Read more

Investing in children's mental health report

Investing in children's mental health services is excellent value for money and will bring a lifetime of benefits to young people, their families, communities and the economy as a whole.Read more

The lifetime costs of ADHD

The high costs of ADHD support an economic case for early intervention. But despite most families seeking help, only a minority of children receive the appropriate treatment.Read more

Wanting the best for my children

Wanting the best for my children looks at the experiences of parents and how systems might work better to support families managing early behavioural difficulties.Read more

Building a better future

Parenting programmes more than pay for themselves through future savings in public spending, spread across a range of budgets including education, health, social care and criminal justice.Read more

Childhood behavioural problems: briefings for professionals

These briefings set out what childhood behavioural problems are, how to recognise the signs, what can be done, how to engage parents and talks about the referral process. There are nine briefings, each for different professional group.Read more

A chance to change

Parenting interventions can dramatically improve children's futures but they must be made widely available, delivered well and targeted at the children who need them most, according to a report from Centre for Mental Health.Read more

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Crisis contacts

The Centre for Mental Health cannot respond to individual medical queries. But there are helplines you can call listed here.

Missed opportunities

We reviewed recent evidence about children's mental health, and found that children wait on average 10 years before receiving help.

What is recovery?

Recovery is about building a meaningful and satisfying life, whether or not there are recurring or ongoing symptoms or mental health problems.

Risk, safety and recovery

Risk, Safety and Recovery argues that risk and safety are rightly major concerns in mental health care but that traditional clinical management methods of assessing risk have stood in the way of helping people to recover their lives.

About us

The lives of people with mental health conditions are harder, poorer and shorter than they should be. We're working on ways to fix this.

Secure mental health services

Secure mental health services treat people with severe mental health problems who pose a risk to the public. But the services are subject to long delays and patients getting stuck.

Fatherhood

What impact do fathers have on their children's mental health?

Parity of esteem

Parity of esteem is the principle by which mental health must be given equal priority to physical health. There are however many areas where parity of esteem has not yet been realised.

The IPS Fidelity Scale

The fidelity scale determines the extent to which an existing employment service is delivery the IPS approach. Test your service against the fidelity scale here.

Costs of perinatal mental health problems

Perinatal mental health problems carry a total cost to society of about £8.1 billion for each one-year cohort of births in the UK. But the NHS would need to spend just £337 million a year to bring perinatal mental health care up to the recommended level.