Opinion – A New Vision for Mental Health

Bad Education

Author: Editorial 29th August 2018 2 Comments

Half of mental illness in adult life starts before the age of 15 … and three-quarters by age 18. [i] Meanwhile, the children and young people of today face heightened pressures and stresses … witness a big uptick in the numbers…
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a wellbeing society, Key posts

children and adolescents, Education, interpersonal and intrapersonal understandings and skills, national curriculum, Opinion, primary schools, Richard Oldfield, schoolchildren, schools

Opinion: rebadging the system

Author: Editorial 26th March 2017 0 Comments

The ‘mental healthcare’ system should be re-designated (and re-labelled) as primarily a system for emotional and psychological healthcare. This is because the ‘mental’ designation is: Misleading … emotions form the core experiences (sadness, rage, fear, anxiety, despair, guilt etc.) of most…
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a coherent system

emotions, labels, male-centric, mental, Opinion, psychological, Richard Oldfield, stigmatisation

Opinion: changing the NHS spending ratio

Author: Editorial 19th March 2017 0 Comments

Mental illness is now nearly 50% of all ill health suffered by people aged under 65 in Britain, and accounts for 23% of the total burden of disease. [1] At any one time, about 16% of adults and 10% of children…
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a balanced budget

materialism, NHS budget, NHS spending, Opinion, Richard Oldfield