A eight-week programme of singing and drumming workshops for people with mental health difficulties led to a significant improvement in wellbeing among participants Choral Singing and Mental Health
Narratives of recovery from Mental Illness This publication presents research that challenges the prevailing view that recovery from mental illness must take place within the boundaries of traditional mental health services. Developed by Mike Watts, GROW Ireland and Agnes Higgins, Trinity College Dublin, both accept that medical treatment maybe a vital start to some peoples […]
https://www.irishtimes.com/news/politics/covid-sustained-surge-of-mental-health-problems-expected-in-coming-years-1.4564097 Mental health services need to be prepared for “a sustained surge in demand over the coming years” in the fallout of the Covid-19 pandemic, an Oireachtas committee has heard.
This year’s Skibbereen Arts Festival, running from 28 July to 6 August, will include a number of arts and mental health events. A screening of Alan Gilsenan’s acclaimed new documentary film Meetings with Ivor on 29 July will be followed by ‘Making Sense’, a panel discussion on the power of the arts in enabling positive mental […]
Many organisations avail of externally facilitated reflective practice spaces to support staff teams. Such spaces allow for team members to better understand their role in the organisation and in particular allow for deeper reflection into the times when organisational dynamics can intrude, interfere and block understanding of team members’ roles and indeed work practices. If […]
“there are a handful of key areas — including depression, chronic pain, and anxiety — in which well-designed, well-run studies have shown benefits for patients engaging in a mindfulness meditation program, with effects similar to other existing treatments.” Click on this link to read more….. https://news.harvard.edu/gazette/story/2018/04/harvard-research
Women in Galway will be able to avail of free perinatal support in a group setting from May 3rd 2017. University Hospital Galway has teamed up with AWARE to offer the sessions at Unit 8 Merlin Park Hospital each Wednesday from 7.30p.m, starting May 3rd. Postnatal depression is now referred to as perinatal depression because […]
The Irish Times, 23rd January 2021 Patrick Freyne – There’s a ‘tsunami of mental health need’ coming when Covid-19 recedes. Ireland’s mental health system is not prepared for a crisis – because it was in one before we ever heard of coronavirus. Link to the article here… Irish Times 23rd January 2021, Ireland’s Mental Health […]
First Fortnight utilises arts and culture to challenge mental health stigma while supporting some of Ireland’s most vulnerable people through creative therapies. In Ireland, one in four people are predicted to struggle with their mental health at some point in their lives. Check it out…. First Fortnight 2021
