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Sharing – Mental Health Professionals Really Can Assume Some Police Duties
It’s been trialed in several areas, sending out a mental health team instead of the police to respond to certain kinds of calls. Typically calls that involve a mental health crisis, addiction, etc. What we didn’t have yet were real studies to show whether this was having the desired effect. It’s early, but this is promising:
BBC Headroom Collection of Mental Health Tools
Simply put, there is a lot of stuff available at the site, from articles, radio shows, mindfulness tools, etc. to BBC TV programs dedicated to mental health topics.
If nothing else, make a note of it and spend some time wandering around and see if any of the tools that are available would be helpful to you, and if they are, come back and let us know!
Sharing – Twitter Thread on How Colleges Can Better Mental Health Services
I honestly think one of the reasons we see so many articles about exercise, eating right, or yes, puppies, as the cure for depression and anxiety, is because we really just want it to be that easy, so it can be “fixed” and we can go back to ignoring the problem. But, umm yeah. There’s…
Link – His College Knew of His Despair. His Parents Didn’t, Until It Was Too Late
It’s easy to say after the fact that if someone at a college suspects a student is a danger to themselves, the parents should be notified. The reality though, is much more complicated than all of that: “There’s a concern that if the school has too low a threshold for contacting family or suggesting a…
Links I’m Sharing (weekly)
5 tips for talking about your mental health Growing Beyond Labels: We are Not Simply a Disorder Toxic Positivity: It’s a Thing Breaking the bubble of silence around child sexual abuse Why We All Need to Understand That Mental Health Problems Don’t Look a Certain Way Why I Choose to Self-Disclose About My Mental Illnesses…
