About us

Our vision

We’re here until people with mental health problems have a fair chance in life.

Our mission

We change the lives of people with mental health problems by using research to bring about better services and fairer policies.

This unique process is captured by the example below:

Our goals for 2020

We've got a clear vision for the next four years and what we're going to be focusing on. Take a look here.

Areas of work

Our main work areas are:

Children: we undertake work which aims to improve the life chances of children through the support they need early in life.
Criminal justice: we identify effective methods of supporting and diverting people with mental health problems in the criminal justice system.
Economics: we research and analyse the costs of providing services and the benefits to the people they help.
Employment: we develop and promote new ways of helping people with mental health problems get and keep work.
Mental and physical health: we work on the areas where mental and psychical health conditions overlap, such as liaison psychiatry, and campaign for parity of esteem for mental health.

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Social media impacts on young people’s wellbeing need to be better understood, says Centre for Mental Health

New briefing challenges a polarised debate and shares the evidence on social media
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Social media, young people and mental health

Does social media negatively impact upon young people's wellbeing? We looked at the evidence.

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Crisis contacts

Unfortunately, we can't respond to individual queries. But if you need to speak to someone, 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 IPS?

The basic principles behind the most effective method of employment support
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Economic and social costs of mental health problems

The total cost of mental health problems in England in 2009/10 was £105.2 billion.
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.

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