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Charlie Brooker & Coral Sirdifield on maximising positive mental health outcomes for people on probation.
The 10th anniversary of the Bradley Report finds we are slowly starting to make progress on the justice and health agenda.
Clinks report sets out key principles towards developing a whole prison approach to good mental health.
St Mungo’s reveals a dramatic increase in the proportion of people sleeping rough who have died with mental health support needs from 2010 to 2017
Prison environments and women prisoners’ needs are complex and demand gender-aware care in view of women’s vulnerability and histories of trauma.
The developers of these mental health chatbots do not suggest they are a replacement for person-to-person therapy although there do seem to be some real benefits.
An internationsl systematic review concludes that eHealth can improve treatment outcomes because of its
potential to increase motivation and engagement and deliver an individually tailored approach.
Street lottery Last week (18 October 2017) VolteFace published an important new report on the issue of cannabis and mental health. Entitled Street Lottery, the report provides
Briefing calls for better data to build more culturally effective services for BAME people with mental health problems in contact with the justice system.
New research urges prison mental health teams to routinely enquire into patients’ experience of abuse & violence via mandatory Care Programme Approach.
Damning National Audit Office report on mental health in prisons finds there are not enough staff nor any plan for addressing large levels of unmet need.
Important new report from the Centre for Mental Health found primary mental health care remains the weakest element of mental health support within
prisons.