Jennie talks to you about how connecting with nature can support our mental health.We recorded this episode in April 2021, after a full year of different lockdowns during the Coronavirus pandemic.
The Scotland research team are part of the team delivering the ‘Coronavirus: Mental Health in the Pandemic’ study across the UK, as part of the Mental Health Foundation's Covid Response Programme and goal of achieving a mentally health society for all.
Building on our ‘Coronavirus: Mental Health in the Pandemic’ study, we led a repeated cross-sectional study of how the COVID-19 pandemic affected adolescents' mental health (people aged 13 to 19) across Great Britain.
This study evaluated the Mental Capacity Act, which came into force in 2007 to support vulnerable people to make decisions for themselves whenever and as far as possible and to protect these individuals and those who care for them when decisions have to be made on their behalf.
In this blog, Brayan Herrera, a year 12 student who has been on placement with Mental Health Foundations Policy and Research team from Haggerston School, East London, as part of the Inspire Initiative, discusses the positive and negative impacts of social media on young peoples mental health.
As festive drinks party invitations start arriving, people won’t need reminding that our culture is as soaked in alcohol as a Christmas pudding. With the help of supportive family, friends and services, I managed to break the cycle and stopped drinking altogether nine years ago.
