List of factsheets

Copyright note for Mind factsheets and legal briefings: Both individuals and organisations are welcome to print and photocopy any complete factsheet or legal briefing from the 'Information' section of Mind's website. Organisations are free to distribute them to service users and colleagues, but must ensure they always use the latest version of the factsheet or legal briefing, as available on the website, at the time of distribution.

Factsheets

• A brief guide to who's who in mental health  
• Alternative drugs to lithium
• Arts therapies
• Body dysmorphic disorder
• Cannabis and mental health
• Careers in mental health
• Children and young people and mental health
• Community care 1: The spectrum of mental health services
• Community care 2: Systems for delivering mental health services
• Community care 3: How to access community care services
• Community care 4: Commissioning services
• Community care 5: Charging for community care services 
• Confusion, depression or dementia? The need for comprehensive assessment
• Crisis services
• Dangerousness and mental health: the facts
• Deafness resources
• Drugs: an alphabetical list
• Drugs for attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD)
• Drugs for dementia
• Employing people with mental health problems
• History of Mind - The National Association for Mental Health
• Holidays
• How to access services - information for carers
• Housing and mental health
• Hypnotherapy
• Hypomania
• Insurance cover for people who have mental health problems
• Key dates in the history of mental health and community care
• Lesbians, gay men and bisexuals and mental health
• Learning disabilities and mental health problems
• Lithium in pregnancy, childbirth and afterwards
• Men's mental health
• Mental health in translation
• Mental health of the African Caribbean community in Britain
• Mental health of Chinese and Vietnamese people in Britain
• Mental health of Irish-born people in Britain
• Mental health of the South Asian community in Britain 
• Mental health resources for blind and partially sighted people
• Nefazodone
• Neurosurgery for mental disorder (psychosurgery)
• Notes on the history of mental health care  
• Older people and mental health
• Public attitudes to mental distress
• Rural issues in mental health
• Seeking employment
• Sexual abuse
• Smoking, giving up and mental health
• St John's Wort (Hypericum perforatum)
• Suicide rates, risks and prevention strategies
• Tardive dyskinesia
• User/survivor empowerment  
• Women and mental health
• Young person's introduction to mental health

Statistics factsheets

• Statistics 1: How common is mental distress?
• Statistics 2: Suicide
• Statistics 3: Race, culture and mental health
• Statistics 4: The Mental Health Act 1983
• Statistics 5: The financial aspects of mental health problems
• Statistics 6: The social context of mental distress
• Statistics 7: Treatments and services for people with mental health problems
• Statistics 8: The Criminal Justice System
• Mental health statistics Wales

Legal briefings

• Legal briefing: Aftercare under section 117 of the Mental Health Act
• Legal briefing: Confidentiality and data protection
• Legal briefing: Disability discrimination
• Legal briefing: Fitness to drive
• Legal briefing: Rights and powers of the nearest relative
• Legal briefing: The Human Rights Act 1998
• Legal unit FAQs
• Mental Health Act 1983 - an outline guide