Employment courses

Doing what works: Implementing a successful IPS service

Aimed at new employment specialists, this course will help you to set up an effective IPS service.Read more

Using Motivational interviewing to support people with mental illness into work

Motivational Interviewing techniques can significantly improve motivation in people who find it hard to overcome barriers to returning to employment. Read more

Engaging with employers - approaching employers on behalf of people with mental health conditions

If you don’t feel confident about approaching employers for jobs for your service users, you are not alone! Read more

Doing what works: Implementing a successful IPS service

Aimed at new employment specialists, this course will help you to set up an effective IPS service.Read more

Using Motivational interviewing to support people with mental illness into work

Motivational Interviewing techniques can significantly improve motivation in people who find it hard to overcome barriers to returning to employment. 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.