Help for Parents Parents of young people with mental health problems often struggle and feel isolated, although they are likely to be hugely important in helping their young people to connect with services and to cope with illness. We are very pleased to launch our new 'Help for Parents' website, designed to provide support for parents in this situation. The website arose out of our work with parenting support groups, and we are now running a pilot to see how it might be helpful when parents come into contact with CAMHS.
30 years of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child
20 November marked the 30th anniversary of the United Nation Convention on the Rights of the Child. We asked the two AYPH Youth Advisers on our We’re All Right project to share their thoughts about the state of young people’s rights in 2019 and how they think we should improve it.
Mental Health & Educational Attainment in Adolescents
In early November we took part in our first ESRC Festival of Social Science at an event organised by NatCen Social Research, discussing the links between mental health problems in Key Stage 3 and GCSE results at age 16. The briefing paper from this event, "How does poor mental health in the early years of secondary school impact on GCSE attainment? written by AYPH and Dr Neil Smith at NatCen, is available to download from our website.
We were delighted that the TOGETHER study was a finalist in the recent London North West University Healthcare NHS Trust Research and Development Excellence Awards. The Together study worked closely with young adults to co-design a group clinics care model, along with practitioners, youth workers and organisations such as Diabetes UK.
Public Health Approach to Serious Youth Violence
A guest blog by AYPH Research Lead, Dr Ann Hagell has been published by the Royal Society for Public Health. This blog is based on the briefing paper Ann wrote for Coram unpicking what we might mean by a public health approach in this context.
A new article published in the Lancet Child and Adolescent Health uses population based surveys to examine global trends in insufficient physical activity among adolescents and finds that the majority of adolescents worldwide are not sufficiently physically active, putting their current and future health at risk.
The latest survey of the quality of patient experience for under-16s has been published in the Care Quality Commission’s Children and Young People’s Survey 2018. More than 33,000 patients and their parents and carers took part in the research. The survey results found several areas with a need for improvement including: children and young people having enough things to do while in hospital, involving children and young people in decision making, information for children, young people, and their parents on care at home and what happens next, and children and young people being treated primarily on age appropriate wards.
A new webinar series to help create a pathway for public involvement of young people in public organisation has been released by the Institute for Health and Human Development at the University of East London. The Young Commissioners webinar series is designed to help public bodies involve young people in commissioning, enhance existing participation structures, review organisational engagement strategies, support delivery and evidence impact.
The TRIUMPH Network is holding an online consultation to find out the most important research questions that need to be answered over the next few years in order to support the development of new initiatives and strategies to promote young people's (11-25 years) mental wellbeing and prevent mental ill health.
A recent GP survey organised by Young Minds found that 77% of GPs thought that was there too little support in the community, such as youth clubs, local charities and drop in centres, for young people.
The National Children's Bureau has published a new Manifesto for a Better Childhood. Developed with children and young people, the manifesto sets priorities for improving young people's lives from birth to age 25, including the development of a government strategy for children and young people, inclusive education and promoting and protecting wellbeing and mental health.
A new specialist NHS service in Greater Manchester will open at the start of the academic year, to support university students to get the help they need to overcome significant mental illness.
The Healthy London Partnership has launched a new resource to support the collection of feedback on the care provided to bereaved families. The resource sets out the key principles of ideal bereavement care, provides guidance as to how and when feedback may be collected and by whom and has been has been informed by the experiences and expertise of a wide range of families, healthcare professionals, charities, and third sector organisations.
The Department of Health & Social Care’s voluntary sector team’s newsletter includes updates on the work of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance and news from the DHSC, NHS England and Public Health England. Sign up for the newsletter here
17 December 2019 SMaRteN Student Conference.
This event will be an inclusive environment in which both students and those working in and researching student mental health can interact, and in which open discussion around a complex and contested topic are welcomed. Themes include: factors influencing student mental health, how we understand and define ‘mental health’ and ‘mental health problems’, non-clinical responses and/or preventative interventions, and formal and non-formal measures of mental health.
