Publications

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Against the odds

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

General election 2017: priorities for the next Parliament

We set out five key priorities for the next GovernmentRead more

Meeting us where we're at

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

Preventing prison suicides: staff perspectives

Suicides in prison in 2016 were the highest since records began. Our latest briefing explores the factors behind this.Read more

Fatherhood

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

Mental health in the West Midlands Combined Authority

We worked with the University of Birmingham to analyse the economic costs of mental health problems in the West Midlands, to shape the West Midlands Combined Authority's action plan.Read more

Supporting carers

The Care Act, carers' assessments and their impact on mental health carersRead more

Immigration Removal Centres in England

We analysed the mental health needs of people detained in Immigration Removal Centres.Read more

Meeting the need

We explored how five local councils went about understanding the mental health needs of their communities, to meet these needs more effectively.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 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.