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Doing good does you good: a pocket guide to helping others
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 20p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Evidence shows that helping others can have a positive effect on your own mental health and wellbeing. For example, it can reduce stress as well as improve mood, self-esteem and happiness. This pocket guide has been produced in order to make people aware of the positive impact that helping others can have on their own mental health, and to provide tips and suggestions to help them get started. It also includes a diary which people can use to keep note of the good deeds they have done, or that others have done to them, and how that made them feel. Carrying out good deeds doesn’t need to take a lot of time or even cost money. This booklet provides some ideas and tips, specifically considering the areas of: volunteering; mentoring; doing something for a good cause; and random acts of kindness.
Peer support in mental health and learning disability
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 16p.
- Place of publication:
- London
This report provides a short descriptive overview of peer support in mental health (including dementia) and learning disabilities, based on some of the recent literature, and highlights key messages from work being undertaken across the UK by the Mental Health Foundation. This work looks at how peer support can help people to recover, or get more control over their condition, and to live fulfilling lives in their communities. The report quotes the views of people who have both given and received peer support, and concludes with recommendations for the expansion of both informal and formal peer support. The key messages from the Foundation’s work confirm what the literature suggests - the benefits of peer support are widespread, for the individual receiving the support, the person giving it, and for services. They include better mental health, an increased sense of wellbeing, increased confidence and learning skills, greater social connectedness, improved recovery and coping skills and fewer hospital admissions.
See Psoriasis: look deeper: recognising the life impact of psoriasis
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2012
- Pagination:
- 12p.
- Place of publication:
- London
The Psoriasis Association and the Mental Health Foundation, have come together to raise awareness of the need for healthcare professionals to look at psoriasis holistically, to consider both the physical symptoms and psychological wellbeing, and ensure people with psoriasis receive the care and support they need. This short report is part of the See Psoriasis: Look Deeper campaign exploring psoriasis as a complex, progressive condition which has numerous consequences for the individual, their family, and society as a whole. The paper includes the voices of suffers and looks at the impact on self confidence, employment and mental health. The report calls for the full impact of psoriasis to be recognised and treated by multi-disciplinary teams who will look deeper, both literally and metaphorically. To create change there is a need to prioritise political efforts to ensure that the financial levers and incentives for commissioners are aligned to multi-disciplinary working. Opportunities for change are noted at national and local levels and examples of good practice highlighted. At the same time, the campaign is calling on people with psoriasis, and their families and friends, to consider the broader impacts of the condition and be aware of the potential impact on psychological wellbeing and quality of life; and not to suffer in silence.