including 14 people who've interacted with helplines in the past and four who experienced a mental health crisis but did not try to call a helpline. One person in the study had discovered the existence of helplines after searching for means of suicide on Google. ...
Mental health We’re here to help you feel more in control of your money. Why telling us can help At some time in our lives, many of us experience mental health conditions. Sometimes this can make it hard to deal with money or your finances could be affecting your mental health. At ...
MIND has some excellent resources to help someone experiencing a mental health issuehttps://www.mind.org.uk/information-support/helping-someone-else/and a huge range of specific topics for the person experiencing the mental health issue to access themselveshttps://www.mind.org.uk/information-suppor...
We found that helpline volunteers have a personally fulfilling yet challenging job. While talking to callers, they have to consistently negotiate several variables in their nature of support—from the helpline organization’s values to their own—as well as negotia...
The most important function of a mental health helpline is to connect you with treatment providers to reduce the impact a mental illness has on your functioning. All calls to a hotline are private and confidential, which can ease the discomfort about making the call for some people. When ...
Please also see our Get Help Now page for more immediate resources. Despite the increased awareness of counseling and mental health services over recent years, many people do not have an opportunity for talk therapy or personal counseling, which is where online therapy can be a convenient option...
MENTAL healthSUICIDE preventionFORECASTINGBackground: Each year, many help seekers in need contact health helplines for mental support. It is crucial that they receive support immediately, and that waiting times are minimal. In order to minimize delay, helplines must have adequate staffing levels, ...
On the spectrum of mental health outcomes, helpline data arguably capture a stronger form of distress than survey-based measures, but in contrast to clinical data, they also offer a window on sub-clinical distress. In this study, we exploit data from the two nationwide German helplines for ...
Stephen Kinnock, minister of state for care, said: "As part of our plans to help fix the broken health system we want to ensure we give mental health the same attention and focus as physical health. "For the first time, there is one number you can call whether you are ...
ARI SHAPIRO, BYLINE: When one event traumatizes an entire country, how can you measure the impact? One way is to look at phone calls to a mental health hotline since the war in Israel began. EMI PALMOR: We had 6,000 calls in the first week, which is about 25% of what we get ...