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Articles
Prioritising mental health.
Promoting Health considers
the importance of mental health and current regional policy
to promote it.
A Sure Start
for our youngest citizens.
Yvonne Cowan and Siobhan Fitzpatrick
highlight work happening to get the next generation off to
a positive start.
When life is
a rollercoaster.
Billy Graham, Barry McGale
and Judy Colhoun show us some of the ways young people are
being educated about mental health.
Design for Living.
Promoting Health reports on
a recent conference on young people's mental wellbeing.
Health for life.
Promoting Health investigates
some of the issues that affect mental health.
The power of
participation.
Claire Keatinge considers whether
the mental health needs of older people are any different
to those of younger generations.
Pragmatic issues
for mental health promotion.
Dr Sandy Herron and Kathleen
Stacy explain why those working in mental health promotion
need to take account of how ordinary people perceive mental
health.
Rural bliss?
Promoting Health looks at some
initiatives aiming to combat soaring stress levels among people
living and working in rural areas.
Suicide prevention
in the Western Board area.
Barry McGale explains what
is being done to address the problem of suicide in the Western
Board area.
The creative
arts and mental wellbeing.
Roisin McDonagh proposes that
the creative arts can play an important supporting role in
promoting mental wellbeing.
Suicide and the
media.
Dr John Connolly reports on
efforts being made to educate the media in Ireland about the
portrayal of suicide and suicidal behaviour.
Health for everyone?
A discussion about some of
the issues affecting the mental and emotional wellbeing of
people from ethnic minorities living in Northern Ireland.
Crisis talks.
Derek Alcorn and Paul O'Hare
explain how their organisations make a difference to those
in need.
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