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Self-harm research project - SHARE UK - can you help?

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by guest author Amanda Marchant I'm Amanda, a PhD student and research assistant at Swansea University. I run the SHARE UK webpage , Facebook and Twitter accounts. I also work on other research projects looking at childhood and adolescent mental health, self-harm and suicide prevention. As a team we want our research to help improve mental health support.  Reports out in the summer suggest that 1 in 4 fourteen year old girls and 1 in 10 boys have harmed themselves in the past year. Self-harm is very common but research suggests that up to half of young people who self-harm don’t receive help from anyone.  We want this to change and for this we need your help! SHARE UK is a ground breaking study looking to learn more about self-harm from people who have experienced it themselves. We want to make a real change but we need you to help us learn about what would make a difference to you. This could be better support in hospitals, schools, anti-bullying policies, help online or ma...

Introducing SilverCloud – online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy

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Becka Williams, Project Manager, SilverCloud CBT Last month I was pleased to accept an invitation to attend a Mental Health Partnership Board meeting at our Llandrindod offices, as it gave me the chance to find out more about the new online Cognitive Behavioural Therapy offering in Powys. It is called SilverCloud .  Becka Williams, the Project Manager overseeing roll out of this new service across the county, gave us some background, an update on project progress and outlined plans for future development. It was an interesting session to learn more about the new service, as individual representatives attend this quarterly partnership meeting. The reps are people who either have used, or care for somebody who has used, mental health services in Powys. Their role is to make sure user/carer voice is included in the planning of services, and here they were able to voice some immediate thoughts about online CBT. Joy Garfitt, Assistant Director of Mental Health Services for Powys Teachi...