How to Deal with Distressing Events in the News: For Parents & Carers
With so many upsetting and distressing events in the news, it’s important to acknowledge how this might be impacting your child or young person.
How to Deal with Distressing Events in the News: For Young People
It’s completely natural to have an emotional response to distressing events in the news. However, it’s important to manage over-exposure to upsetting or worrying news to avoid becoming overwhelmed and unable to cope.
What Is Obesity Awareness Week and Why Is It Important?
Society’s focus on obesity and the need to lose weight to stay healthy has placed considerable pressure and worry on an already stressed group of individuals. That’s why campaigns such as Obesity Awareness Week are so important in helping to break the stigma.
How to ‘Be Yourself’
Most of us have been told over and over to 'be ourselves' throughout our lives, but what if we don't know what it means to be ourselves?
How You Can Use Goals to Move Forward in Life
By setting goals for the New Year, with the help of Move Mood, you can lift the weight of low mood, and move forwards with direction and purpose.
‘Mental Health For All’ on World Mental Health Day!
Happy World Mental Health Day from stem4! With this year’s theme being ‘Mental Health for All’, we’ve decided to focus on (and celebrate) LGBTQ+ & BAME mental health, because we cannot have ‘mental health for all’ without mental health for the communities most vulnerable to mental ill-health.
Being Kind to Ourselves and Others
Learning about compassion takes far more than a lesson or a talk in a school. It needs to be modelled and embedded into the ethos of our society and we can do this by starting with some basic steps:
Prevention: The New Holy Grail of Treating Mental Illness – A Response
In response to Mark Rice-Oxley’s article Prevention: The new Holy Grail of Mental Illness in the Guardian on the 8th June.
The Mental Health Needs of Girls and Women
New data from NHS Digital released towards the end of last year indicated that young women are the highest risk group in England for mental health problems.
Head Ed – A stem4 Initiative in ‘Prevention Through Education’
By Dr Nihara Krause, Consultant Clinical Psychologist, Founder and CEO stem4 The health, social and economic consequences of poor mental health are substantial. 10% of children and young people aged 5-16 have significant mental health difficulties (Public Health England, 2016) with this number increasing to 1 in 4 in adults (Mental Health Taskforce,