Covid-19 and mental health
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Blog: How nature can benefit your mental health
In a year of Covid-19 restrictions and lockdowns, millions of people have discovered how being in nature supports and protects our mental wellbeing. With the loss of...
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Blog: Artificial Intelligence for mental health
You’ve probably heard the statistic that 1 in 4 people in the UK experience a mental health condition each year. But did you know that suicide is the biggest killer of...
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Blog: Protecting young people at risk of self-harm and suicide
Suicide rates among the under 25s have increased in recent years, particularly among 10-24-year-old females, according to the Office for National Statistics. Suicides...
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Long read: Treating patients with PTSD through online therapy
The unprecedented situation we find ourselves in this year has led to everybody’s lives being affected in some way or another. Mental health services all over the world,...
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Blog: Mental health support for BAME health and social care workers
Media coverage of the Covid-19 pandemic has repeatedly confirmed the disproportionate representation in both exposure to and death from Covid-19 among Black, Asian and...
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Blog: Providing online trauma therapy for key workers
Key workers providing treatment, care and emergency response on the frontline are at risk of developing mental health problems linked to the current Covid-19 crisis. My...
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Blog: Can storytelling improve children’s mental health?
September 7 is Youth Mental Health Awareness Day – and this year it is needed more than ever.
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Covid-19 and mental health: Fellows’ case studies
PageDan Farnworth (above) has been providing mental health support to health workers who have faced increased stress during the pandemic Churchill Fellows are taking action...
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Covid-19 Action Fund winners: mental health
PageThe Covid-19 Action Fund provides grants for Churchill Fellows to run projects combatting the effects of Covid-19 in all areas of society. Hundreds of pandemic projects...
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Long read: Looking after your mental health in lockdown
Mental health ambassador Tod James reveals how he is looking after the mental health of his community - and of himself - during the Covid-19 pandemic
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Blog: Acts of kindness during the pandemic
News | 22 May 2020 |As Mental Health Awareness Week ends, we asked the team here at WCMT to share their own lockdown experiences of 'kindness' - which is the theme of the week.
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Blog: Protecting nurses’ mental health during Covid-19
In the current context of the Covid-19 outbreak, there is an urgent need to recognise the unprecedented situations in which nurses are working on a daily basis, and to...
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Blog: Mindfulness for older people during the lockdown
For Mental Health Awareness Week mindfulness instructor Lynette Robinson (CF 2010) describes how she is supporting socially isolated older people with mindfulness...
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Blog: Connecting with nature during lockdown
Nature campaigner Raj Patel (CF 2017) finds new ways to reconnect with nature during lockdown.
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Blog: Supporting the mental health of NHS and key workers
Frontline staff wellbeing champion Dan Farnworth offers his advice for protecting your mental health during lockdown