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Mental Health Foundation blog
- Author:
- MENTAL HEALTH FOUNDATION
- Publisher:
- Mental Health Foundation
- Place of publication:
- London
Staff from the Mental Health Foundation post to this blog on matters relating to mental health and learning disabilities. It covers breaking news stories, government policies or new research.
Your human rights: a guide for people living with mental health problems
- Authors:
- COOKE Sarah, MATTHEWS Lucy
- Publisher:
- British Institute of Human Rights
- Publication year:
- 2006
- Pagination:
- 46p.
- Place of publication:
- London
Your Human Rights’ is a series of four plain English, non-technical guides focusing on the practical relevance of human rights in the UK. They are written directly for people living with mental health problems, disabled people, older people and refugees and asylum seekers who are in situations where they may need information on their human rights. They will also be useful for people working with these groups, or people who would like to know more about the impact of human rights on these groups. The present booklet is devoted to people living with mental health problems.
Sexual, reproductive and mental health: managing reproductive health
- Authors:
- SOCIAL CARE INSTITUTE FOR EXCELLENCE, ABEL Kathryn
- Publisher:
- Social Care Institute for Excellence
- Publication year:
- 2011
- Place of publication:
- London
This e-learning resource is one of 8 modules developed to help mental health professionals deal with aspects of sexual and reproductive health in the context of mental illness. Sections cover the areas of healthy reproductive health including fertility and pregnancy, sexual anatomy, menopause and effective assessment.
Tracking the psychological and social consequences of the COVID-19 pandemic across the UK population: findings, impact, and recommendations from the COVID-19 Social Study
- Authors:
- FANCOURT D., STEPTOE A., BRADBURY A.
- Publisher:
- University College London
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 86
- Place of publication:
- London
This report summarises the findings and impact of the COVID-19 Social Study which aims to understand how the pandemic impacted the UK population. The study is a large mixed method panel involving over 70,000 adults in the UK. Part I of this report is a synthesis of the key findings from the study, which we position in relation to broader theoretical literature regarding the societal impact of pandemics and health emergencies. Part II describes in narrative form the impact the study has had both within and beyond academia, featuring testimonials from key stakeholders who have utilised the data, as well as partners and study participants. Standout findings from this research include that: people struggling financially before the pandemic were more than 10 times as likely to be worse off financially during the pandemic; rates of thoughts of death or self-harm have hovered around 20% for young adults throughout the pandemic; women more than men carried a heavy psychological burden; pregnant women in particular faced challenges receiving support and care; and people with mental health or physical conditions at the start of the pandemic consistently had worse mental health, as did key workers and people with long Covid. These inequalities existed before the pandemic but were further exacerbated by COVID-19, and such groups remain particularly vulnerable to the future effects of the pandemic and other national crises. The report offers seven recommendations: focus on the most vulnerable groups; invest in mental health services; expand community-based support; embed transparency and integrity in health policy; invest in social and behavioural research; foster social solidarity and cohesion; plan for the next pandemic or health emergency. (Edited publisher abstract)
A tale of two crises: the cost of living and mental health
- Author:
- D'ARCY Conor
- Publisher:
- Money and Mental Health Policy Institute
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 11
- Place of publication:
- London
Drawing on a survey of people with lived experience of mental health problems, this briefing explores how the cost of living crisis is affecting their mental health and finances. The rapid rise in the cost of living is putting pressure on millions of families in the UK. In response, nearly three-quarters (73%) of us have had to change how we live in recent months, for instance cutting back on energy use or other essential spending. Trouble in making ends meet is having a damaging psychological impact too. Over half (54%) of UK adults say they have felt anxious as a result of higher prices of late, while one in five (21%) have felt unable to cope. While these difficulties have been widely experienced, people who were already struggling with their mental health and finances have been among those hardest hit. People with mental health problems are more likely to say that the rocketing cost of living has had a negative effect on their mental health, and they are also more likely to have borrowed money or cut back on spending in response. Approaching half (46%) of Research Community respondents who have been affected by the rise in the cost of living told us that they had reduced the number of meals they ate per day. With the toxic cycle of mental health problems and money worries in full flow, immediate action is needed from the government, regulators and firms to stop the cost of living crisis becoming a mental health crisis. (Edited publisher abstract)
Navigating the road of adolescence: young people’s mental health in the UK: how the pandemic has affected young people’s ability to self-regulate socially and emotionally
- Author:
- WALKER Simon
- Publisher:
- STEER Education
- Publication year:
- 2022
- Pagination:
- 21
This report analyses data from the STEER Tracking programme, 2018- December 2021, involving twice or thrice yearly data assessment of students’ ability to socially and emotionally self-regulate, focusing on the impact of the pandemic. The report reveals that to date the pandemic has had a 25 % adverse effect on students’ ability to self-regulate in school. Girls are particularly affected, with a 33% decline, whilst boys’ self-regulation outside school has actually improved during the pandemic. By the time girls reach 18, they now have more than twice the self-regulatory risks as boys of the same age. The pandemic public exam cancellation provided a unique opportunity to measure the social-emotional impacts of public exams vs not having public exams. Data suggests that public exams have an adverse effect on student wellbeing. Relatively stable levels of visible disruptive adolescent behaviours during the pandemic may be explained by an increase of hidden, internalised risks which are not yet visible. Strong signals indicate that the specific long-term psychological risk from the pandemic will be pathologies driven by internalised control, particularly in girls aged 14-18. Independent day schools saw some similar increases to state schools, but from a lower pre-pandemic baseline and to a lower extent. (Edited publisher abstract)
Mental health and care needs of British children and young people aged 6–17
- Authors:
- FLEDDERJOHANN Jasmine, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Children and Youth Services Review, 126, 2021, p.106033.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
We conducted a scoping literature review based on a sample of 51 UK-based research articles published since 2004, focusing on children and young people aged 6–17 years. Taking the 2004 Office for National Statistics survey of child and adolescent mental health as a pivotal point in the development of the field, our aims were to identify the mental health difficulties featured in extant literature since the survey; uncover critical gaps; and propose avenues for advancing the field. Articles were critically reviewed, coded, and summarised. We found socioeconomic disadvantage, family instability and parental distress are cited as key contributing factors to mental distress. Following categorizations in the 2004 survey, emotional, conduct, and hyperactivity difficulties were the most commonly researched and reported topics. The needs of migrant, BAME, physically disabled, and LGBTQ children were severely underrepresented in the literature, as were those of looked after children. We also found a strong reliance on clinic-based convenience samples, which obfuscates the needs of children who are not able to access care. Further research using inclusive, population-based samples and diverse methods is needed going forward. (Edited publisher abstract)
Double trouble: exploring the labour market and mental health impact of Covid-19 on young people
- Authors:
- SEHMI Rukmen, SLAUGHTER Hannah
- Publisher:
- Resolution Foundation
- Publication year:
- 2021
- Pagination:
- 53
- Place of publication:
- London
A growing body of evidence has emerged since the start of the pandemic highlighting the negative impact of the Covid-19 crisis on the nation’s living standards and mental health. But to date, few have focused exclusively on the experiences of young people. This report demonstrates the especial vulnerability of this age group: they were at the sharp end of structural changes going into the crisis; have been hardest hit by the pandemic when it comes to both labour market outcomes and their mental health; and are at risk of these experiences having an enduring impact on their longer-term living standards. The report finds that in 2000, 24 per cent of 18-24-year-olds had a common mental disorder (CMD), the lowest rate of any age group. By 2018-2019, that figure had grown to 30 per cent, with young people the age group most likely to have a mental health problem. On the eve of the crisis, four-in-ten (40 per cent) 18-24-year-olds who were unemployed had a CMD, compared to three-in-ten (30 per cent) in insecure work and 27 per cent in secure forms of employment. In January 2021, one-in-five (19 per cent) 18-24-year-olds who were in work before the crisis were no longer working, compared to 4 per cent of 25-54-year-olds and 11 per cent of 55-65-year-olds. And among those young people in insecure work pre-crisis, the share no longer working by January rose to 36 per cent. Half (51 per cent) of 18-24-year-olds had mental health problems in April 2020, up from the 30 per cent in the pre-crisis period and the highest rate for any age group at the outset of the pandemic. In January 2021, more than one-in-four (26 per cent) 18-24-year-olds who had not had a mental health condition before the crisis had a ‘new’ CMD. For 18-21-year-olds, the figure stood at three-in-ten (30 per cent). (Edited publisher abstract)
Male suicide: policy briefing
- Authors:
- NESOM Suzanna, BRISTOW Dan
- Publisher:
- Wales Centre for Public Policy
- Publication year:
- 2020
- Pagination:
- 5
- Place of publication:
- Cardiff
This note provides an overview of male suicide rates and some of the causes, at both the UK and Wales level. Since 2016, the National Statistics definition of suicide for the UK includes all deaths from intentional self-harm for persons aged ten years and over, and deaths where the intent was undetermined for those aged 15 years and over. Deaths from an event of undetermined intent in ten to 14 year olds are not included, as it is not always clear whether the assumption that the harm was self-inflicted is appropriate. Data on the rates of suicide across the UK suggest that there is a gendered dimension to suicide. Male suicides accounted for around three quarters of the total in England and Wales in 2019. Of the 5,691 suicides registered in England and Wales in 2019, males accounted for three quarters of these (4303). This equates to a male suicide death rate of 16.9 per 100,000, compared with 5.3 deaths per 100,000 for the female suicide death rate in 2019. This represents an increase from the 2018 rate of 16.2 per 100,000 and is significantly higher than rates seen between 2014 and 2017. (Edited publisher abstract)
Adverse childhood experiences and trajectories of internalizing, externalizing, and prosocial behaviors from childhood to adolescence
- Authors:
- BEVILACQUA Leonardo, et al
- Journal article citation:
- Child Abuse and Neglect, 112, 2021, p.104890.
- Publisher:
- Elsevier
Background: Adverse childhood experiences (ACEs) predict poorer mental health across the life course but most of the extant research has employed ACE scores or individual adversities using retrospective data. Objectives: To study the impact of ACEs on later mental health using not only ACEs scores and individual ACEs, but also latent class analysis (LCA), which respects the clustering of adversities. Participants and setting: 8823 members from the UK Millennium Cohort Study. Methods: We investigated the impact of prospectively reported ACEs on mental health trajectories derived using the Strengths and Difficulties Questionnaire at age 3, 5, 7, 11 and 14. Associations between LCA-derived ACE clusters, ACE scores, individual ACEs and mental health trajectories were tested using linear mixed effects models. Results: With statistical significance set at 5% level, ACE scores showed a graded association with internalizing (ACE score of 1: β = 0.057; ACE score of 2: β = 0.108; ACE score of 3: β = 0.202), externalizing (ACE score of 1: β = 0.142; ACE score of 2: β = 0.299; ACE score of 3: β = 0.415) and prosocial behaviors (ACE score of 1: β=-0.019; ACE score of 2: β=-0.042; ACE score of 3: β=-0.059). Harsh parenting and physical punishment were particularly strongly associated with externalizing (β = 0.270 and β = 0.256) and negatively associated with prosocial behaviors (β=-0.046 and β=-0.058). Parental discord and parental depression showed the strongest associations with internalizing problems (β = 0.125 and β = 0.113). LCA did not discriminate ACE clusters in this dataset. Conclusions: ACEs have an important impact on mental health from childhood to adolescence. ACEs score approach yielded useful results, which were further enhanced by exploring individual ACEs. (Edited publisher abstract)