Guidance

Below are some useful links to other websites and pages of interest for mental health:

Alcohol and Substance Abuse

Alcohol Misuse Condition Guide - produced by NHS Choices

Effects of alcohol and drinking - NHS Choices

Drug Misuse - Department of Health

Anxiety

Condition Guide to Anxiety - produced by NHS Choices

Bipolar Disorder

Condition Guide to Bipolar Disorder - produced by NHS Choices

Burnout

Burnout is a loss of interest in work and, in extreme forms, the burnout victim can literally become unable to work - Free Guide

Care Quality Commission

Website

Confidentiality Policy Guidelines

Produced by mhhp in 2010

Debt and mental health

Money Advice Trust

The credit crunch and health - NHS Choices

The Royal College of Psychiatrists Wisdom Guide to debt, finance and mental health

Dementia

Condition Guide on Dementia - produced by NHS Choices

Depression

Condition Guide on Depression - produced by NHS Choices

This free guide will take you through some of the different types of depression and some of the symptoms.

Leeds website launches mental health information in British Sign Language

www.mentalhealthleeds.info

Living with Voices - 50 Stories of recovery

by Professor Marius Romme, Dr Sandra Escher, Jacqui Dillon, Dr Dirk Corstens and Professor Mervyn Morris

PCCS Books, 2009, ISBN 978 1 90625422 3, 346 pp, £20.

Mental health in schools

Voluntary Sector Support (VSS) policy briefing 2009

National Institute for Health and Clinical Excellence (NICE)

Guidelines

Obsessive Compulsive Disorder

Condition Guide on OCD by NHS Choices

Older people's mental health

http://www.mentalhealth.org.uk/information/mental-health-a-z/adults-in-later-life/

Personalisation

Personalisation is a social care approach described by the Department of Health as meaning that “every person who receives support, whether provided by statutory services or funded by themselves, will have choice and control over the shape of that support in all care settings.”

Relevant articles produced in 2009:

THE LONELINESS WORKBOOK: A Guide to Developing and Maintaining Lasting Connections

by Mary Ellen Copeland, PhD

To gather information for this book, Mary Ellen conducted a “Loneliness Study” with volunteers from her workshops, friends, colleagues, and her website – www.mentalhealthrecovery.com.

Third Sector Knowledge Centre

The Third Sector Knowledge Portal is a website created by the Third Sector Research Centre, in partnership with the British Library. The portal provides free access to various research reports, for example academic research, reports from charities themselves, government publications and training materials, that have been written about the voluntary and community sector.

Time to Change

England's most ambitious programme to end discrimination faced by people who experience mental health problems. For more information see www.time-to-change.org.uk or see the video on YouTube.