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    • Choose Psychiatry

      Choose Psychiatry

      • What is psychiatry?
      • How to become a psychiatrist
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      • What next?
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      Medical students

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    • Foundation doctors

      Foundation doctors

      • Foundation doctor associates
      • Making the most of your psychiatry placement
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      • FuturePsych - the associate magazine
      • Applying to Core and Higher Training
      • Careers in mental health research
    • Help us promote psychiatry

      Help us promote psychiatry

      • How can I help?
      • Ideas to inspire you
      • Resources to help you promote psychiatry
      • RCPsych Recruitment Strategy 2022-2027
    • Supporting Medical Students: Medical Schools
    • Choose Psychiatry
      • What is psychiatry?
      • How to become a psychiatrist
      • Why choose psychiatry?
      • What next?
      • On a break from training?
      • Choose Psychiatry – Guidance for Medical Schools
      • 'Make this a better world'
      • Continue to choose psychiatry
    • Sixth formers and school students
    • Medical students
      • Becoming a student associate
      • Psychiatry attachments
      • Awards, prizes and bursaries for medical students
      • PsychSocs
      • National Student Psychiatry Conference
      • Summer and autumn schools
      • FuturePsych – the student associate magazine
    • Foundation doctors
      • Foundation doctor associates
      • Making the most of your psychiatry placement
      • Opportunities for foundation doctors
      • FuturePsych - the associate magazine
      • Applying to Core and Higher Training
      • Careers in mental health research
    • Help us promote psychiatry
      • How can I help?
      • Ideas to inspire you
      • Resources to help you promote psychiatry
      • RCPsych Recruitment Strategy 2022-2027
    • Supporting Medical Students: Medical Schools
  • Training

    Training

    • Exams

      Exams

      • Can I take an exam?
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      • FAQs about the day of the exam
      • FAQs about assessment and results
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      • FAQs about our exam diet in Doha
      • FAQs about Paper B 2026-1
    • Curricula and guidance

      Curricula and guidance

      • 2022 Curricula Implementation Hub
      • 2014 GMC approved curricula (ending July 2024)
      • Specialty training guides
      • Dual training
      • Assessment Strategy Review
      • Formative Assessment
    • ePortfolio

      ePortfolio

      • FAQs - Transition to new ePortfolio
      • FourteenFish ePortfolio
    • Your training

      Your training

      • Psychiatric Resident Doctors' Committee: supporting you
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      • Leadership and Management Fellow Scheme
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      • Cost of Training
      • Industrial action FAQs
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      • Presenting evidence at mental health tribunals
    • Medical training initiative (MTI)
    • International Medical Graduates
    • Employer Hub
    • Quality Assurance (QI) in training

      Quality Assurance (QI) in training

      • Externality
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    • Dean's Quarterly Updates

      Dean's Quarterly Updates

      • Dean's Quarterly Update - July 2025
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - April 2025
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - January 2025
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - September 2024
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - June 2024
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - February 2024
    • Building Capacity in Perinatal Psychiatry

      Building Capacity in Perinatal Psychiatry

      • About the Building Capacity Project
      • Perinatal Psychiatry Masterclass Series
    • RCPsych Learn
    • Exams
      • Can I take an exam?
      • Contact the Exams team
      • Preparing for exams
      • Applying for your exam
      • Exam results
      • A fair exam
      • Examiners and exam panels recruitment
      • FAQs about applying for exams
      • FAQs about preparing for exams
      • FAQs about the day of the exam
      • FAQs about assessment and results
      • Exams news and updates
      • Exams Reading List
      • FAQs about our exam diet in Doha
      • FAQs about Paper B 2026-1
    • Curricula and guidance
      • 2022 Curricula Implementation Hub
      • 2014 GMC approved curricula (ending July 2024)
      • Specialty training guides
      • Dual training
      • Assessment Strategy Review
      • Formative Assessment
    • ePortfolio
      • FAQs - Transition to new ePortfolio
      • FourteenFish ePortfolio
    • Your training
      • Psychiatric Resident Doctors' Committee: supporting you
      • Routes to Registration
      • Applying for training
      • Run-through training
      • Training less than full time
      • Time out of training
      • Academic Training
      • Understanding Career Choices in Psychiatry
      • Leadership and Management Fellow Scheme
      • Prizes and bursaries for resident doctors
      • Cost of Training
      • Industrial action FAQs
      • Distribution of medical training posts
      • Presenting evidence at mental health tribunals
    • Medical training initiative (MTI)
    • International Medical Graduates
    • Employer Hub
    • Quality Assurance (QI) in training
      • Externality
    • Credentialing
    • CPD eLearning
    • Dean's Quarterly Updates
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - July 2025
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - April 2025
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - January 2025
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - September 2024
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - June 2024
      • Dean's Quarterly Update - February 2024
    • Building Capacity in Perinatal Psychiatry
      • About the Building Capacity Project
      • Perinatal Psychiatry Masterclass Series
    • RCPsych Learn
  • Members

    Members

    • Membership

      Membership

      • Members login
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      • Pay Your Subscription
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      • Your subscription
      • Grades of membership
      • Benefits of membership
      • Fellowship and other Honours
    • Submitting your CPD
    • Supporting your professional development

      Supporting your professional development

      • New consultants (StartWell)
      • Revalidation
      • Assessing and managing risk of patients causing harm
      • Leadership and management
      • Working less than full time
      • Writing clinic letters
      • If a patient dies by suicide
    • CPD eLearning
    • Your faculties

      Your faculties

      • Faculty of Academic Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Eating Disorders Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry
      • Faculty of General Adult Psychiatry
      • Faculty of the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability
      • Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy
      • Faculty of Neuropsychiatry
      • Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Perinatal Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry
      • Faculty job descriptions
    • Specialty and specialist (SAS) psychiatrists

      Specialty and specialist (SAS) psychiatrists

      • Who are SAS psychiatrists?
      • How to enter the SAS grade
      • Resources for SAS psychiatrists
      • SAS Strategy
      • SAS career development
      • SAS psychiatrists eNewsletters
      • SAS Psychiatrists Committee
    • Devolved Nations

      Devolved Nations

      • RCPsych in Scotland
      • RCPsych in Wales
      • CBSeic Cymru
      • RCPsych in Northern Ireland
      • Executive Committee job descriptions
    • English Divisions

      English Divisions

      • Eastern Division
      • London Division
      • Northern and Yorkshire Division
      • North West Division
      • South East Division
      • South West Division
      • Trent Division
      • West Midlands Division
      • Executive Committee job descriptions
      • All Division events
    • Special Interest Groups

      Special Interest Groups

      • How to join a Special Interest Group (SIG)
      • Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry Special Interest Group (AFPSIG)
      • Arts psychiatry Special Interest Group (ArtSIG)
      • Digital Psychiatry Special Interest Group (DPSIG)
      • Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group (EPSIG)
      • History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group (HoPSIG)
      • Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Special Interest Group (NDPSIG)
      • Occupational Psychiatry Special Interest Group (OPSIG)
      • Philosophy Special Interest Group 
      • Private and Independent Practice Special Interest Group (PIPSIG)
      • Rainbow Special Interest Group
      • Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group (SPSIG)
      • Sport and Exercise Psychiatry Special Interest Group (SEPSIG)
      • Transcultural psychiatry Special Interest Group (TSIG)
      • Volunteering and International Psychiatry Special Interest Group (VIPSIG)
      • Women and Mental Health Special Interest Group (WMHSIG)
      • Annual SIG Newsletters
      • Special Interest Group (SIG) events
    • Workforce Wellbeing Hub

      Workforce Wellbeing Hub

      • Psychiatrists' Support Service (PSS)
      • Top 10 tips for wellbeing
      • Coaching and mentoring
      • If a patient dies by suicide
      • If a patient commits homicide
      • Support for Refugee Psychiatrists
      • Wellbeing Committee
    • Public members list
    • Publications and books
    • Posts for members
    • eLearning Hub
    • Membership
      • Members login
      • Receipts
      • Pay Your Subscription
      • Direct Debit
      • Your subscription
      • Grades of membership
      • Benefits of membership
      • Fellowship and other Honours
    • Submitting your CPD
    • Supporting your professional development
      • New consultants (StartWell)
      • Revalidation
      • Assessing and managing risk of patients causing harm
      • Leadership and management
      • Working less than full time
      • Writing clinic letters
      • If a patient dies by suicide
    • CPD eLearning
    • Your faculties
      • Faculty of Academic Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Addictions Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Eating Disorders Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Forensic Psychiatry
      • Faculty of General Adult Psychiatry
      • Faculty of the Psychiatry of Intellectual Disability
      • Faculty of Liaison Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Medical Psychotherapy
      • Faculty of Neuropsychiatry
      • Faculty of Old Age Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Perinatal Psychiatry
      • Faculty of Rehabilitation and Social Psychiatry
      • Faculty job descriptions
    • Specialty and specialist (SAS) psychiatrists
      • Who are SAS psychiatrists?
      • How to enter the SAS grade
      • Resources for SAS psychiatrists
      • SAS Strategy
      • SAS career development
      • SAS psychiatrists eNewsletters
      • SAS Psychiatrists Committee
    • Devolved Nations
      • RCPsych in Scotland
      • RCPsych in Wales
      • CBSeic Cymru
      • RCPsych in Northern Ireland
      • Executive Committee job descriptions
    • English Divisions
      • Eastern Division
      • London Division
      • Northern and Yorkshire Division
      • North West Division
      • South East Division
      • South West Division
      • Trent Division
      • West Midlands Division
      • Executive Committee job descriptions
      • All Division events
    • Special Interest Groups
      • How to join a Special Interest Group (SIG)
      • Adolescent Forensic Psychiatry Special Interest Group (AFPSIG)
      • Arts psychiatry Special Interest Group (ArtSIG)
      • Digital Psychiatry Special Interest Group (DPSIG)
      • Evolutionary Psychiatry Special Interest Group (EPSIG)
      • History of Psychiatry Special Interest Group (HoPSIG)
      • Neurodevelopmental Psychiatry Special Interest Group (NDPSIG)
      • Occupational Psychiatry Special Interest Group (OPSIG)
      • Philosophy Special Interest Group 
      • Private and Independent Practice Special Interest Group (PIPSIG)
      • Rainbow Special Interest Group
      • Spirituality and Psychiatry Special Interest Group (SPSIG)
      • Sport and Exercise Psychiatry Special Interest Group (SEPSIG)
      • Transcultural psychiatry Special Interest Group (TSIG)
      • Volunteering and International Psychiatry Special Interest Group (VIPSIG)
      • Women and Mental Health Special Interest Group (WMHSIG)
      • Annual SIG Newsletters
      • Special Interest Group (SIG) events
    • Workforce Wellbeing Hub
      • Psychiatrists' Support Service (PSS)
      • Top 10 tips for wellbeing
      • Coaching and mentoring
      • If a patient dies by suicide
      • If a patient commits homicide
      • Support for Refugee Psychiatrists
      • Wellbeing Committee
    • Public members list
    • Publications and books
    • Posts for members
    • eLearning Hub
  • Events

    Events

    • Conferences and training events

      Conferences and training events

      • Grand Rounds
      • Register your interest - CESR in Psychiatry Training
      • MHA Section 12 and Approved Clinician Training
      • Subscribe to receive the Events eNews
      • Old Age Faculty Resident Doctors
      • Clinical and Educational Supervisors training course
    • International Congress 2026

      International Congress 2026

      • Poster Presentations 2026
      • Exhibition opportunities 2026
      • Registration
      • Your guide to Congress
      • Art at Congress
      • Programme
      • Congress blog
    • International Congress 2027
    • In-house training

      In-house training

      • Competing interests
    • Free webinars
    • Claiming expenses

      Claiming expenses

      • What can I claim
    • Terms and conditions for event booking

      Terms and conditions for event booking

      • Cancellation policy
      • Code of conduct for events
      • Parent and baby policy
      • Speaker diversity
      • Privacy policy
    • Speaker guidance for RCPsych events
    • EventsAir FAQs
    • Terminology guide for the Four Nations
    • 9th European Conference on Integrated Care and Assertive Outreach
    • Conferences and training events
      • Grand Rounds
      • Register your interest - CESR in Psychiatry Training
      • MHA Section 12 and Approved Clinician Training
      • Subscribe to receive the Events eNews
      • Old Age Faculty Resident Doctors
      • Clinical and Educational Supervisors training course
    • International Congress 2026
      • Poster Presentations 2026
      • Exhibition opportunities 2026
      • Registration
      • Your guide to Congress
      • Art at Congress
      • Programme
      • Congress blog
    • International Congress 2027
    • In-house training
      • Competing interests
    • Free webinars
    • Claiming expenses
      • What can I claim
    • Terms and conditions for event booking
      • Cancellation policy
      • Code of conduct for events
      • Parent and baby policy
      • Speaker diversity
      • Privacy policy
    • Speaker guidance for RCPsych events
    • EventsAir FAQs
    • Terminology guide for the Four Nations
    • 9th European Conference on Integrated Care and Assertive Outreach
  • Improving care

    Improving care

    • College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI)

      College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI)

      • What we do in the CCQI
      • Quality networks and accreditation
      • National Clinical Audits
      • Multi-source feedback
      • CCQI resources
      • CCQI - who we are
      • CCQI research and evaluation
      • Health of Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS)
      • Get involved with CCQI
    • Influencing and campaigning for better mental health policy

      Influencing and campaigning for better mental health policy

      • College Reports
      • Position Statements
      • Integrated care and mental health
      • Children and young people's mental health Green Paper
      • Cross-government mental health and wellbeing plan 
      • RCPsych in Parliament
      • Processes for producing College publications, consultations, surveys and endorsements
      • Other policy areas
      • Mental Health Watch
      • Reforming The Mental Health Act
      • The Mental Health Policy Group (MHPG)
      • Preventing mental illness: Our manifesto for the next UK general election
      • The 2024 General Election and our manifesto
      • Assisted dying/assisted suicide
    • Planning the psychiatric workforce

      Planning the psychiatric workforce

      • About our workforce unit
      • Job planning and recruitment
      • Our workforce census
      • Campaigning for the mental health workforce of the future
      • Workforce strategy
      • Job description approval process
    • Public Mental Health Implementation Centre (PMHIC)

      Public Mental Health Implementation Centre (PMHIC)

      • Partnerships and events  
      • How to work with the Public Mental Health Implementation Centre
      • About the PMHIC
      • PMHIC Aims and objectives
      • Reports
      • About public mental health
      • PMHIC Parliamentary Launch 
      • PMHIC Commercial Determinants of Mental Health (CDoMH) Symposium 
      • PMHIC Parliamentary Roundtable 
      • Smoking and Mental Health in Wales 
      • Public Mental Health Learning Community 
      • Weight management and mental health: A framework for action in Wales
      • Health inequalities briefing pack
      • Physical Activity for People Using Mental Health Services: A framework for action in Wales
    • National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH)

      National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH)

      • About NCCMH and our work
      • Clinical guideline development
      • Competence frameworks
      • Quality improvement programmes
      • Reviews, evaluations and reports
      • Service design and development
      • Work with us
      • Culture of Care Programme
      • A–Z of NCCMH publications
      • Research team and programmes
      • Dyfodol
    • Act Against Racism

      Act Against Racism

      • Tackling racism in the workplace
      • Adopt the guidance and join our network
      • Act Against Racism: a toolkit to support the campaign
      • If you're experiencing racism at work
      • Allies: information and signposting
      • FAQs about the campaign
      • Act Against Racism campaign films
      • Resources
    • Sustainability, climate change and mental health

      Sustainability, climate change and mental health

      • Sustainability and mental health policy
      • Helping others work sustainably
      • Sustainability and climate change: Taking action at RCPsych
      • Why is sustainability important?
    • Public Health and its role in mental heath
    • Using quality improvement
    • Net Zero Mental Health Care Guidance and Education

      Net Zero Mental Health Care Guidance and Education

      • Net Zero Mental Health Care Report Launch Event
    • Mental Health Awareness Week
    • Invited Review Service
    • Physician Assistant Review

      Physician Assistant Review

      • Physician Associate Review Meeting Summaries
    • Providing Reasonable Adjustments - for mental health employers

      Providing Reasonable Adjustments - for mental health employers

      • Introducing the guidance
      • What are reasonable adjustments?
      • How to implement the 15 recommendations
      • Information about allyship
      • Case studies 
      • Help spread the word 
      • Sign up to adopt the guidance 
    • Seni Lewis Award

      Seni Lewis Award

      • Seni Lewis Award toolkit
    • Review of the role of Multi-Professional Approved Clinicians (MPACs)
    • Women's Mental Health 

      Women's Mental Health 

      • Why Women's Mental Health Matters is important
      • Women's Mental Health podcasts
      • Women's Mental Health Matters recommendations
      • Women's Mental Health: Key resources and further reading
      • Women's Mental Health Matters case studies
      • College action plan to improve women's mental health care
    • Wim's Protocol
    • College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI)
      • What we do in the CCQI
      • Quality networks and accreditation
      • National Clinical Audits
      • Multi-source feedback
      • CCQI resources
      • CCQI - who we are
      • CCQI research and evaluation
      • Health of Nation Outcome Scales (HoNOS)
      • Get involved with CCQI
    • Influencing and campaigning for better mental health policy
      • College Reports
      • Position Statements
      • Integrated care and mental health
      • Children and young people's mental health Green Paper
      • Cross-government mental health and wellbeing plan 
      • RCPsych in Parliament
      • Processes for producing College publications, consultations, surveys and endorsements
      • Other policy areas
      • Mental Health Watch
      • Reforming The Mental Health Act
      • The Mental Health Policy Group (MHPG)
      • Preventing mental illness: Our manifesto for the next UK general election
      • The 2024 General Election and our manifesto
      • Assisted dying/assisted suicide
    • Planning the psychiatric workforce
      • About our workforce unit
      • Job planning and recruitment
      • Our workforce census
      • Campaigning for the mental health workforce of the future
      • Workforce strategy
      • Job description approval process
    • Public Mental Health Implementation Centre (PMHIC)
      • Partnerships and events  
      • How to work with the Public Mental Health Implementation Centre
      • About the PMHIC
      • PMHIC Aims and objectives
      • Reports
      • About public mental health
      • PMHIC Parliamentary Launch 
      • PMHIC Commercial Determinants of Mental Health (CDoMH) Symposium 
      • PMHIC Parliamentary Roundtable 
      • Smoking and Mental Health in Wales 
      • Public Mental Health Learning Community 
      • Weight management and mental health: A framework for action in Wales
      • Health inequalities briefing pack
      • Physical Activity for People Using Mental Health Services: A framework for action in Wales
    • National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health (NCCMH)
      • About NCCMH and our work
      • Clinical guideline development
      • Competence frameworks
      • Quality improvement programmes
      • Reviews, evaluations and reports
      • Service design and development
      • Work with us
      • Culture of Care Programme
      • A–Z of NCCMH publications
      • Research team and programmes
      • Dyfodol
    • Act Against Racism
      • Tackling racism in the workplace
      • Adopt the guidance and join our network
      • Act Against Racism: a toolkit to support the campaign
      • If you're experiencing racism at work
      • Allies: information and signposting
      • FAQs about the campaign
      • Act Against Racism campaign films
      • Resources
    • Sustainability, climate change and mental health
      • Sustainability and mental health policy
      • Helping others work sustainably
      • Sustainability and climate change: Taking action at RCPsych
      • Why is sustainability important?
    • Public Health and its role in mental heath
    • Using quality improvement
    • Net Zero Mental Health Care Guidance and Education
      • Net Zero Mental Health Care Report Launch Event
    • Mental Health Awareness Week
    • Invited Review Service
    • Physician Assistant Review
      • Physician Associate Review Meeting Summaries
    • Providing Reasonable Adjustments - for mental health employers
      • Introducing the guidance
      • What are reasonable adjustments?
      • How to implement the 15 recommendations
      • Information about allyship
      • Case studies 
      • Help spread the word 
      • Sign up to adopt the guidance 
    • Seni Lewis Award
      • Seni Lewis Award toolkit
    • Review of the role of Multi-Professional Approved Clinicians (MPACs)
    • Women's Mental Health 
      • Why Women's Mental Health Matters is important
      • Women's Mental Health podcasts
      • Women's Mental Health Matters recommendations
      • Women's Mental Health: Key resources and further reading
      • Women's Mental Health Matters case studies
      • College action plan to improve women's mental health care
    • Wim's Protocol
  • Mental health

    Mental health

    • Mental illnesses and mental health problems

      Mental illnesses and mental health problems

      • ADHD in adults
      • Alcohol, mental health and the brain
      • Anorexia and bulimia
      • Anxiety and generalised anxiety disorder (GAD)
      • Autism and mental health
      • Avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID)
      • Bereavement
      • Bipolar disorder
      • Cannabis and mental health
      • Catatonia
      • Cocaine dependence
      • Coping after a traumatic event
      • Debt and mental health
      • Delirium
      • Depression
      • Depression in older adults
      • Feeling overwhelmed
      • Gambling disorder
      • Heroin dependence
      • Hoarding
      • Intellectual disabilities
      • Medically unexplained symptoms
      • Memory problems and dementia
      • Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
      • Perinatal OCD
      • Perinatal OCD for carers
      • Personality disorder
      • Physical illness and mental health
      • Postnatal depression
      • Postnatal depression key facts
      • Postnatal depression for carers
      • Postpartum psychosis
      • Postpartum psychosis for carers
      • Post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) 
      • Schizoaffective disorder
      • Schizophrenia
      • Seasonal affective disorder (SAD)
      • Self-harm
      • Shyness and social phobia
      • Sleeping well
      • Psychosis
      • Suicidal thoughts
      • Supporting someone in distress or with suicidal thoughts
    • Support, care and treatment

      Support, care and treatment

      • Alzheimers drug treatments
      • Antidepressants
      • Antipsychotics
      • Antipsychotics in pregnancy
      • Being sectioned (in England and Wales)
      • Benefits, financial support and debt advice
      • Benzodiazepines
      • Caring for someone with a mental illness
      • Children's social services and safeguarding
      • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT)
      • Complementary and alternative medicines: herbal remedies
      • Complementary and alternative medicines: physical treatments
      • Long-acting injectable (depot) antipsychotics
      • Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
      • Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
      • Hypnosis and hypnotherapy
      • Liaison psychiatry services
      • Lithium in pregnancy and breastfeeding
      • Mental capacity and the law
      • Mental health in pregnancy
      • Mental health rehabilitation services
      • Mental health services and teams in the community
      • Mental Health Tribunals
      • Mother and baby units (MBUs)
      • Neuromodulation
      • What are perinatal mental health services?
      • Planning a pregnancy
      • Psychotherapies and psychological treatments
      • Social prescribing
      • Spirituality and mental health
      • Stopping antidepressants
      • What to expect of your psychiatrist in the UK
      • COVID-19: for patients and carers
      • Veterans' mental health
    • Information for children and young people

      Information for children and young people

      • Bipolar disorder for young people
      • Cannabis and mental health for young people
      • Club drugs for young people
      • Cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT) for young people
      • Coping with stress for young people
      • Depression in children and young people
      • Drugs and alcohol for young people
      • Eco distress for young people
      • Physical activity, exercise and mental health for young people
      • OCD for young people
      • Psychosis for young people
      • Schizophrenia for young people
      • When a parent has a mental illness
      • When bad things happen for young people
      • Who is who in CAMHS?
      • Anxiety for young people
      • Weight, exercise and eating disorders for young people
      • Use of digital media for young people
      • Self-harm in children and young people
      • Tics and Tourette syndrome in young people
    • Translations of our mental health information

      Translations of our mental health information

      • Arabic عربى
      • Bengali বাঙালি
      • Chinese 中文
      • French Français
      • German Deutsch
      • Greek Ελληνική
      • Gujarati ગુજરાતી
      • Hindi हिंदीहिंदी
      • Italian Italiano
      • Japanese 日本語
      • Marathi मराठी
      • Persian (Farsi) فارسی
      • Polish Polski
      • Portuguese (Brazil) Português (Brasil)
      • Punjabi (Pakistan) پنجابی
      • Romanian Română
      • Russian Pусский
      • Sindhi سنڌي
      • Somali Soomaali
      • Spanish Español
      • Swahili Kiswahili
      • Tamil தமிழ்
      • Telugu తెలుగు
      • Ukrainian украї́нська
      • Urdu اردو
      • Vietnamese Việt
      • Welsh Cymraeg
      • התמודדות לאחר אירוע טראומטי Coping after a traumatic event in Hebrew
      • Mijûlbûna piştî bûyerekê trawmatîk Coping after a traumatic event in Kurdish
      • Travmatik bir olayla başa çıkma Coping after a traumatic event in Turkish
      • စိတ်ထိခိုက်ဖွယ် ဖြစ်ရပ်တစ်ခုကို ရင်ဆိုင်ဖြေရှင်းခြင်း Coping after a traumatic event in Burmese
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