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Tackling Mental Health Inequalities: Ensuring Accessibility for All Communities

1 minute read

Jul 2023

Every 1 in 4 people in the UK have mental health difficulty. In this video, the Centre for Mental Health discuss inequalities that increase risk of poor mental and how these inequalities prevent people from accessing services to get the help they need.

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Government Updates

Government Update: The Essex Mental Health Inquiry

3 minute read

Jul 2023

Many people will experience mental health problems in their lives. This government update looks at some of the long-term government aims to improve mental health services and the recent Essex mental heath statutory inquiry.

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Working in Partnership to Provide Wrap-Around Support to People Affected by Eating Disorders

1 minute read

Jul 2023

It is estimated that 1.25 million people in the UK have an eating disorder. In this video Paula Blight, Chief Executive of Somerset and Wessex Eating Disorder Association, discusses developing joined up pathways between services to intervene early and help individuals recover from their eating disorder.

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Encouraging Healthy Lifestyles and Supporting Young Adults with Eating Disorders

18 minute watch

Jun 2023

More young people than ever before are receiving treatment for eating disorders, according to NHS figures. In this video, Sue Dixon, Head of Teacher Education at Goldsmiths, discusses the development and benefits of early intervention in providing wrap around care for young adults with eating disorders.

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Assessing Safeguarding Risks to Students and Taking Action to Prevent Them

20 minute watch

Jun 2023

4 in 5 students have experienced mental health difficulties in the last year, this is an increase from 3 in 5 in 2021. In this video, Heidi Cooper-Hind discusses the importance of assessing safeguarding risks for everyone involved in mental health cases to build service improvements and provide better support to students experiencing mental health difficulties.

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Understanding Lived Experience to Drive Improvements in Eating Disorder Treatments

20 minute watch

Jun 2023

In the UK, people with eating disorders face a 3.5-year delay between falling ill and starting treatment. In this video Duncan Campbell and Fiona Jenkins from EmpowerED discuss the importance of understanding and including lived experience in the development of eating disorder treatment plans to ensure a patient centred approach.

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Articles

The Link Between Addiction and Trauma

7 minute read

May 2023

There were 289,215 adults in contact with drug and alcohol services between April 2021 and March 2022. Paul Dent, Strategic Engagement Lead at Gordon Moody discusses the link between maladaptive coping issues and addictive disorders.

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Combatting the Challenge of Gambling Harms

10 minute read

Mar 2023

Around 7% of the population are found to be negatively affected by someone else’s gambling, according to the 2021 Public Health England review. In this article Paul Dent, Strategic Engagement Lead at Gordon Moody, discusses the current landscape of gambling and the challenges organisations face when supporting problem gamblers.

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Working with Service Users to Develop Follow Up Programmes After a Mental Health Crisis

11 minute watch

Jan 2023

Demand for crisis mental health services has increased by a third since before the pandemic and doubled since 2017. In this video, Owen Salem, Operational Support Officer at Youth Fed discusses how organisations need to work collaboratively with NHS Trusts and service users to understand the early signs of crises and to develop coping strategies once they are discharged.

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High Suicide Rates among Neurodiverse Individuals: Why it matters and what can be done about it

9 minute read

Jul 2022

Autistic people make up approximately 1% of the population but 11% of suicides. We heard from David Stocks, a Suicide Prevention Community Worker at Black Country Healthcare NHS Trust about the high suicide rates in neurodivergent individuals and what NHS Trusts can do to improve the mental health support in place to help these individuals.

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Interviews

In conversation: Tackling Alcohol Addiction and Discovering the Impacts of Alcohol-Related Brain Damage (ARBD)

10 minute read

Jun 2022

In 2020, alcohol-specific deaths in the UK increased by 19.6% compared to the previous year. We heard from Consultant Addiction Psychiatrist Dr Julia Lewis about how authorities can work better to support those who misuse substances.

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Case Studies

Providing Culturally Competent Mental Health Support

5 minute read

Sep 2021

Multiple studies have highlighted health inequalities which disproportionately affect Black and Minority Ethnic (BAME) communities. Issues have been identified across the entire lifespan, from increased dental disease in childhood, poor experiences for black women using maternity services, to low numbers of elderly black people using mental health services. This case study will highlight the work CAHN are carrying out to identify structural and systemic barriers, and how they continued to deliver their services throughout the Covid-19 pandemic.

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