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The Integrated Therapist Advocate Approach: Report on a Pilot Project

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  This report describes a new approach to helping highly-challenged parents in disadvantaged communities – those who have been unable to find and engage productively with existing helping agencies: the Integrated Therapy Advocacy (ITA) approach.  We will report on a pilot project and describe the impact that the approach has had on the client parents and […]

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Briefing Note: Charting a New Course for Mental Health and Well-Being in the UK

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Andrew Garman and Della Austin[1]   The statistics are truly shocking: Do not these data demand a fundamental rethink about mental health?  Why does the UK perform so poorly?  What are the underlying drivers? Why are these issues not more front and centre in political debate and public discourse? We argue in this paper that this current

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Putting Families First: Helping the Parents to Help the Child

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This Flourish Position Paper argues that parents are being overlooked in the quest to improve the mental health of children and young people.  It is a lost opportunity. Introduction   In the UK, it is increasingly recognised that there is an epidemic of mental health problems among children and young people.  The government regularly announces

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Book Reviews

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Andrew Garman reviews two books that explore the different ways in which the modern world impacts mental health. Sedated: How Modern Capitalism Created our Mental Health Crisis, by James Davies (Atlantic, 2022) As an anthropologist and a psychotherapist, Davies is well-placed to see both the detail and the big picture behind the still-burgeoning mental health

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