Reports and resources
Papers, reports articles from Mind's campaigns and policy work, and our MindThink project to debate future mental health policy.
All resources:
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Power of veto
It is becoming increasingly common to involve service users in staff recruitment. But, as usual, there is a world of difference between the real thing and the hollow gesture.
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Prescribing choices - holistic health in primary care
Taking medication for depression, and for a range of mental health problems, can be an impersonal, lonely affair. And the world, it seems, is gobbling up the message of 'just keep on taking the pills'.
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Prescription charges review
Mind's response to written evidence to Professor Ian Gilmore's review.
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ProCEED
This reports on a three-year study of proactive care by practice nurses for people with depression and anxiety. A training guide for practice nurses builds on the research.
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Psychiatric Update in Openmind 158
Does stimulating the brain cure mental illness? asks Duncan Double
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Regulation of psychotherapists and counsellors
Psychological therapies remain one of the least regulated areas of mental health practice in the UK. Mind firmly supports the need for statutory regulation of psychotherapists and counsellors.
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Rejecting the concept of 'carer'
If you are sane, you have mothers, fathers, siblings, partners, children. But if you have mental health problems, then these people become 'carers'.
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Respect!
Almost the first action of our new government was to promise action to promote 'respect' in our society.
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Safe, sound and surgical
The white paper, Reforming the Mental Health Act (2001), is a key part of the Government's reform of mental health law, which claims to be creating a modern service that is 'safe, sound and supportive'.
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Screening Madness
This report identifies popular films as a reservoir of prejudice, ignorance and fear that feeds and perpetuates damaging stereotypes of people with mental health problems.
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Self-harm/self-defence
In September 1999 Sharon Lefevre, a mother-of-three, hanged herself at her home. The local paper in Dolgellau, north Wales, simply reported the death as a suicide by a depressed woman.
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Shaping the future of care together: the Government's Green Paper on social care
Mind welcomes the publication of the Green Paper on social care. However, we are concerned that it does not address the considerable barriers to accessing care and support which many people with mental health problems face now.
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Should cannabis be restored to class B?
Cannabis has been an illegal class C drug since January 2004, when it was reclassified from class B. The difference between these two classes is in the penalties for dealing and for possession.
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Sibling dearest
Psychologists have tended to overlook sibling relationships, says Dorothy Rowe
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Spiritual psychology
Suman Fernando on the spiritual basis for a multicultural mental health service.