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...mental disorders such as anxiety or depression, according to a clinical trial in Harare, Zimbabwe. The study, published in the journal JAMA this week (December 27), found that patients who used the ‘friendship benches’ for support were less likely to have symptoms than patients who received standard treatment. Peter Singer, CEO of Grand Challenges Canada which funds...

...Mental Health in the workplace We have all seen how the pandemic has brought to light a greater need to focus on individual wellbeing. We have also been made aware of how stretched Mental Health Services are struggling to cope with ever-increasing demands on the service. Mental health problems are not new in the workplace and were all too common even before COVID-19 hit...

...Mental Health declarations working group set up as part of The Open University’s Access and Participation Plan...We did it! The role of study support in student success Transcript ‘We did it! The role of study support in student success’ was created by Suki Haider, Alice Uwizera, Allan Kavuma, John Butcher, Rehana Awan and Darren Gray. Suki is an OU Associate...

...about what got her interested in mental health, psychology and the mind in this exclusive interview ...Transcript Did you know All in the Mind is co-produced by The Open University? Check out our All in the Mind page to find out more about the series and get additional FREE content on mental health and the mind. Interested in mental health or psychology? Try a FREE course...

...mental wellbeing. Having assessed the available evidence the report’s authors conclude that what they term ‘green care’ needs to become more widely available, especially for people who are experiencing mental health problems such as depression or dementia. It is likely that there at least three factors that account for the positive effects of ‘green care’:...

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...mental health charities, are keen to press upon the curious that there’s rarely, if ever, a single factor that leads to any self-inflicted death and that mental illness, most commonly depression, usually precedes such an event. “But the really important point is, most people with depression don’t kill themselves,” O’Connor tells me. “Less than 5 per cent do....