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Unfortunately many doctors feel the need to manage their own health (or more often not manage it) in the absence of other professional advice. It’s as though they see it as a personal & professional failure to have to ask for help.

Here’s a great new idea in online education in mental health designed to support a very good cause.

In this fast moving world, medical practitioners and other health professionals are looking for new ways of keeping up to date; ways that use the available technology and that allow them to learn at their own pace, in their own time and even while they are doing something else at the same time!

Ever thought you’d like to know more about mental health care and CBT but haven’t had the time to do the training? eMH programs can help.

One of the biggest challenges of internet-based therapy is to improve the poor rates of adherence. An article by Johansson et al published in 2015 in the journal Internet Interventions reported a

Through July you might notice an advertising campaign beginning that talks about a new digital service from Reach Out to support parents of teenagers. This may well be as close to the “parenting

Mindfulness based therapies have developed out of the growing body of evidence to support the use of regular mindfulness practice to improve both physical and mental health. Mindfulness can be

Do you have a desire to do something to improve the mental health of your community?

My mother, a woman I loved dearly but who was sometimes very wrong about things, used to say that it was important to think and say all the bad things about yourself before anyone else had a chance to do so.