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Mental Health Awareness Week 2023 - 15th to 21st May 2023

 The importance of maintaining good mental health has been hitting the headlines more and more over the past few years.  Covid-19 hit many hard and with the cost of living crisis adding additional pressures it is now even more important to raise awareness of mental health issues and the treatments available.

 Mental Health Awareness week runs from 15th to 21st May 2023 with charities using the opportunity to highlight what help and support is available.

 

RELATED LIBRARY RESOURCES 

The Health Libraries, both at the Royal Stoke and County Hospitals, offer numerous resources related to the subject of mental health. Whether you suffer with your own mental health, or care for patients with mental health conditions, there are numerous texts available to assist you.  In the lists below you’ll find a small selection of items. To locate these items, go to our online catalogue or ask at the counter.  

This document covers the following resources – books, journals, journal articles and patient information.  

 

BOOKS   

JOURNALS   

  • Journal of public mental health (Online), Mental Health Foundation (London, England), Pavilion. [Available as an e-journal for Keele and NHS from 1999 onwards].
  • International journal of mental health (Online), Taylor & Francis. [Available as an e-journal for Keele and NHS from 1997 onwards].
  • International journal of mental health and capacity law, University of Northumbria at Newcastle. [Available as an Open Access e-journal for Keele and NHS from 2016 onwards].
  • International journal of mental health systems, BioMed Central Ltd. [Available as an Open Access e-journal for Keele and NHS from 2007 onwards].
  • Mental Health Practice, RCN Publishing. [Available as an e-journal for Keele and NHS].

Access more journals via our Journals webpage: http://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/journals/ 

JOURNAL ARTICLES  

  • Pearce, Lynne; “How psychological first aid can help nurses to cope: An intervention strategy that helps nurses deal with distressing or traumatic incidents, or crisis situations”; Mental health practice, 2023, Vol.26 (3), p.16-17, DOI: 10.7748/mhp.26.3.16.s6 (Available via Keele & NHS e-journals).
  • Feng, Guo; Xu, Xiaxia & Lei, Jiawei; “Tracking perceived stress, anxiety, and depression in daily life: a double-downward spiral process”; Frontiers in psychology, 2023, Vol.14, p.1114332, DOI: 10.3389/fpsyg.2023.1114332 (Available via Keele & NHS e-journals).
  • Bisp, Sarah; Robertson, Wendy & Attree, Stevie, “Supporting young people who are leaving child and adolescent mental health services”, Mental health practice, 2023, Vol.26 (1), p.28-33, DOI: 10.7748/mhp.2022.e1628 (Available via Keele & NHS e-journals).
  • Limb, Matthew; “Long NHS waits and rising living costs are harming people’s health, show ONS data”; BMJ (Online), 2023, Vol.380, p.479-479, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.p479 (Available via Keele & NHS e-journals).
  • Kendrick, Tony; Collinson, Susan; et al; “Antidepressants and the serotonin hypothesis of depression”; BMJ (Online), 2022, Vol.378, p.o1993-o1993, DOI: 10.1136/bmj.o1993 (Available via Keele & NHS e-journals).
  • Goodman, Michael L; Molldrem, Stephen; et al; “Long COVID and mental health correlates: a new chronic condition fits existing patterns”; Health psychology & behavioral medicine, 2023, Vol.11 (1), p.2164498-2164498, DOI: 10.1080/21642850.2022.2164498 (Available via Keele & NHS e-journals).

KnowledgeShare CURRENT AWARENESS:   

KnowledgeShare Evidence Updates is a personalised current awareness service which sends, straight to your email inbox, new evidence on topics tailored to your requirements and collated by Health Librarians.For more information, or to register for KnowledgeShare please go to https://www.keele.ac.uk/healthlibrary/find/currentawareness/. 

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