Resources

Older People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing: Summary

Published 2018. Outside the Box is working with a wide range of older people and organisations to find ways for older people to get good support for their mental health and wellbeing. This report brings together what we have been hearing through several projects. This is a shorter version of the full report which goes into more detail on each point.

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Older People’s Mental Health and Wellbeing: What older people are saying

Published 2018. Outside the Box is working with a wide range of older people and organisations to find ways for older people to get good support for their mental health and wellbeing. These conversations have been going on over several years and we expect they will continue. This report brings together what we have been hearing from people across Scotland.

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Families Mental Health and Wellbeing posters

Published 2018. These tips came from conversations we had with parents and families, and organisations supporting families and people with poor mental health. They are in a simple, easy to read format that we hope you will find useful.

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Hints and Tips for Parents supporting Teenagers with Poor Mental Health

Published 2018. When your child is struggling with poor mental health it can be a confusing and difficult time for the whole family. We’ve spoken to families around Scotland and put together some tips that we hope will help make it easier to support your teenager and to give you some ideas for how you can help them.

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Mental Health and Wellbeing Tips for Teenagers

Published 2018. When you’re a teenager life can feel overwhelming – lots of changes are happening, you’re making decisions about your future, and it can feel like there’s a lot of pressure on you. We hope that these tips can help you through some of these bad times and give you some ideas and tools to help you improve your mental health or to make things easier when you’re struggling.

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Hints and Tips for Parents experiencing Poor Mental Health

Published 2018. We spoke to different groups of parents across Scotland and put together some hints and tips that we hope will help people in a parenting role who may be struggling with poor mental health. We hope these will help you and make it easier to know where to start when it comes to looking after your health and wellbeing.

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