Resource reviews

LANGUAGE IS IMPORTANT IN MENTAL HEALTH NURSING

Dave Munday, lead professional officer, Unite the Union

School plans ‘lack ambition’

Government plans to improve access to mental health

Interim report is published on the Mental Health Act Review

Interim report is published on the Mental Health Act

Support for alcohol and mental health problems needs improvement

Support for alcohol and mental health problems needs

Welfare conditionality is ‘largely ineffective’

Welfare conditionality within the social security system

Mental health service review published

Community health services need to be “significantly

General public says mental health should be NHS spending priority

General public says mental health should be NHS spending

MHN lead professional officer update

Dave Munday, Unite in Health. Twitter: @davidamunday

Informal borrowing and mental health problems

Rachel Braverman reports on a survey of money lending for people with mental health problems

The language of psychiatric discourse: power and imbalance

Freya Sewell Mental health nursing student, Edinburgh Napier University

Writing for Mental Health Nursing

Are you thinking about writing for this journal? These guidelines will start you off in the right direction and help to ensure the process runs smoothly and successfully

Speak up: My experience of mental health nursing

When I realised I needed help with postnatal depression

Speak up: Anorexia, my best friend and worst enemy

I met her when I was 12 years old and she was brilliant.

The importance of focusing on recovery

Student Matty Laycock argues for the importance of recovery and stories of success in mental health

Developing the mental health media charter

Anyone who has any experience of them will tell you

Inside the mind of… Natasha Devon

Mental Health Nursing meets the mental health writer and activist, who was awarded an MBE for her work with young people to promote good mental health. Follow her on Twitter at @_NatashaDevon