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Supporting you
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New consultants (StartWell)
Mentoring and coaching
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Assessing and managing risk of patients causing harm
Leadership and management
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If a patient dies by suicide
Submitting your CPD
CPD Submissions FAQs
Alterations to CPD during coronavirus pandemic
CPD Online
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Your Faculties
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Child and adolescent psychiatry
Eating disorders psychiatry
Forensic Psychiatry Faculty
General adult psychiatry
Intellectual disability psychiatry faculty
Liaison psychiatry faculty
Medical psychotherapy faculty
Neuropsychiatry faculty
Old age psychiatry faculty
Perinatal psychiatry faculty
Rehabilitation and social psychiatry faculty
Faculty job descriptions
Devolved Nations
RCPsych in Scotland
RCPsych in Wales
Coleg Cymraeg
RCPsych in Northern Ireland
Executive Committee job descriptions
English Divisions
Eastern
London
Northern and Yorkshire
North West
South Eastern
Trent
West Midlands
South West
Executive Committee job descriptions
NW and NY mentorship
International members
International Divisions
Volunteering
Certificate of eligibility for specialist registration
International Advisory Committee
International strategy
Special Interest Groups
How to join a SIG
Adolescent forensic psychiatry
Arts psychiatry
Evolutionary psychiatry
History of psychiatry
Neurodevelopmental psychiatry
Occupational psychiatry
Philosophy
Private and independent practice PIPSIG
Rainbow SIG
Spirituality
Sport and exercise
Transcultural psychiatry
Volunteering and international
Women and mental health
Special Interest Group Job Descriptions
Digital Psychiatry Special Interest Group
Committees of Council
RCPsych Insight magazine
Publications and books
Your monthly eNewsletter
RCPsych eNewsletter September 2020
Members' update 11 September 2020
Members' update 1 September 2020
Members' update 14 August 2020
RCPsych eNewsletter July 2020
Members' update 10 July 2020
RCPsych eNewsletter June 2020
Update 12 June 2020
COVID-19 Update 29 May 2020
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COVID-19 Update 7 May 2020
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Posts for members
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Specialist and Associate Specialty Doctors
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Who are SAS Doctors?
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List of president's lectures competing interests
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Faculty of intellectual Disability Spring Conference 2019
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Section 12 and AC – Update for Trainers - Training Day Course Resources
Resilience & Wellbeing Course for SAS Doctors
Present State Examination Course 17 April - Register your interest
Present State Examination Course 1 September - Register your interest
Section 12 and Approved Clinician Training
Perinatal Psychiatry Masterclasses
Events held by other organisations
Terms and conditions
In house training
In house training: working with us
Health of Nation Outcome Scales
Competing interests
Highlights from International Congress 2020 - Webinar Series
Registration
Programme
FAQs
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International Congress 2021
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Invited Review Service
Public Health and its role in mental heath
College Centre for Quality Improvement (CCQI)
What we do in the CCQI
Quality Networks and Accreditation
National Clinical Audits
Multi-source feedback
Using quality improvement
CCQI resources
CCQI Who we are
Research and evaluation
How you can get involved with CCQI
Campaigning for better mental health policy
The Mental Health Act (MHA)
Five Year Forward View
Integrated care and mental health
Children and young people's mental health Green Paper
RCPsych in Parliament
Join our Research Panel
College Reports
Position statements
Process for College publications
Other policy areas
Cannabis Call for Evidence
Mental Health Watch
COVID-19: Guidance for clinicians
Planning the psychiatric workforce
What we do
Job planning and recruitment
Our workforce census
Campaigning for the mental health workforce of the future
Workforce strategy
Physician Associates
About Physician Associates
Employing Physician Associates
Becoming a Physician Associate
Support for Physician Associates
Physician Associates network
National Collaborating Centre for Mental Health
About the NCCMH
Mental health care pathways
Mental health quality improvement programmes
Other programmes
Reducing restrictive practice
National suicide prevention programme
Sexual Safety Collaborative
COVID-19 Mental Health Improvement Network
Working sustainably
Green care
Sustainability scholars
About sustainability in mental health care
Invited Review Service
Public Health and its role in mental heath
Mental health
Mental health
Problems and disorders
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ADHD in adults
Alcohol and depression
Alcohol and older people
Anorexia and bulimia
Anxiety, panic and phobias
Bereavement
Bipolar disorder
Cannabis
Club drugs
Coping after a traumatic event
Debt and mental health
Delirium
Memory problems and dementia
Depression
Depression in older adults
Depression and men
Eating well and mental health
Feeling on the edge
Feeling overwhelmed
Feeling stressed
Hoarding
Learning disabilities
Medically unexplained symptoms
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Perinatal OCD
Personality disorder
Postnatal depression
Physical illness
Postpartum psychosis
Problem gambling
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Schizoaffective disorder
Schizophrenia
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self harm
Shyness and social phobia
Sleeping well
Perinatal OCD for carers
Postpartum Psychosis in Carers
Postnatal depression key facts
Postnatal depression: information for carers
Support, care and treatment
Support, care and treatment
Alzheimers drug treatments
Antidepressants
Antipsychotics
Being sectioned
Benzodiazepines
Bipolar medications
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Complementary and alternative medicines: herbal remedies
Complementary and alternative medicines: physical treatments
Depot medication
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Electronic health records in mental health services in England
Guide to mental health tribunals
Liaison psychiatry services
Mental capacity and the law
Mental health rehabilitation services
Mental health services and teams in the community
Planning a pregnancy
Psychotherapies
Spirituality and mental health
Stopping antidepressants
Talking to your GP
What to expect of your psychiatrist in the UK
Antipsychotics in Pregnancy
Lithium in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
Mother and Baby Units (MBUs)
Children's Social Services and Safeguarding
Valproate in women and girls who could get pregnant
What are Perinatal Mental Health Services?
Mental health in pregnancy
Medication for mental health and COVID-19
Remote consultations and COVID-19
Attending hospital and COVID-19
Monitoring health at home and COVID-19
Alcohol and COVID-19
Eating disorders and COVID-19
Perinatal care and COVID-19
COVID-19: Self-harm in young people
COVID-19: Self-harm and suicide
COVID-19: Looking after your mental health – for young people and their parents and carers
COVID-19: Using drugs
COVID-19: ASD
Young people's mental health
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Arabic عربى
Bengali বাঙালি
Bulgarian български
Chinese 中文
French Français
German Auf Deutsch
Greek Ελληνική γλώσσα
Gujurati ગુજરાતી
Hindi हिंदीहिंदी
Italian italiano
Japanese 日本語
Lithuanian Lietuvių kalba
Pashto پښتو
Persian (Farsi) فارسی
Polish Polski
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Romanian Română
Russian Pусский
Somali
Spanish Español
Turkish
Tamil தமிழ்
Urdu اردو
Welsh Cymraeg
Mental health FAQs
Order mental health leaflets
About our mental health information
Disclaimer about our mental health information
Choosing Wisely - a national campaign
BSL translations
MindEd: web tools for those working with young people
Order mental health packs for schools
Audio resources
Problems and disorders
ADHD in adults
Alcohol and depression
Alcohol and older people
Anorexia and bulimia
Anxiety, panic and phobias
Bereavement
Bipolar disorder
Cannabis
Club drugs
Coping after a traumatic event
Debt and mental health
Delirium
Memory problems and dementia
Depression
Depression in older adults
Depression and men
Eating well and mental health
Feeling on the edge
Feeling overwhelmed
Feeling stressed
Hoarding
Learning disabilities
Medically unexplained symptoms
Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD)
Perinatal OCD
Personality disorder
Postnatal depression
Physical illness
Postpartum psychosis
Problem gambling
Post Traumatic Stress Disorder (PTSD)
Schizoaffective disorder
Schizophrenia
Seasonal Affective Disorder (SAD)
Self harm
Shyness and social phobia
Sleeping well
Perinatal OCD for carers
Postpartum Psychosis in Carers
Postnatal depression key facts
Postnatal depression: information for carers
Support, care and treatment
Alzheimers drug treatments
Antidepressants
Antipsychotics
Being sectioned
Benzodiazepines
Bipolar medications
Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT)
Complementary and alternative medicines: herbal remedies
Complementary and alternative medicines: physical treatments
Depot medication
Deprivation of Liberty Safeguards
Electroconvulsive therapy (ECT)
Electronic health records in mental health services in England
Guide to mental health tribunals
Liaison psychiatry services
Mental capacity and the law
Mental health rehabilitation services
Mental health services and teams in the community
Planning a pregnancy
Psychotherapies
Spirituality and mental health
Stopping antidepressants
Talking to your GP
What to expect of your psychiatrist in the UK
Antipsychotics in Pregnancy
Lithium in Pregnancy and Breastfeeding
Mother and Baby Units (MBUs)
Children's Social Services and Safeguarding
Valproate in women and girls who could get pregnant
What are Perinatal Mental Health Services?
Mental health in pregnancy
Medication for mental health and COVID-19
Remote consultations and COVID-19
Attending hospital and COVID-19
Monitoring health at home and COVID-19
Alcohol and COVID-19
Eating disorders and COVID-19
Perinatal care and COVID-19
COVID-19: Self-harm in young people
COVID-19: Self-harm and suicide
COVID-19: Looking after your mental health – for young people and their parents and carers
COVID-19: Using drugs
COVID-19: ASD
Young people's mental health
Translations
Arabic عربى
Bengali বাঙালি
Bulgarian български
Chinese 中文
French Français
German Auf Deutsch
Greek Ελληνική γλώσσα
Gujurati ગુજરાતી
Hindi हिंदीहिंदी
Italian italiano
Japanese 日本語
Lithuanian Lietuvių kalba
Pashto پښتو
Persian (Farsi) فارسی
Polish Polski
Punjabi ਪੰਜਾਬੀ
Romanian Română
Russian Pусский
Somali
Spanish Español
Turkish
Tamil தமிழ்
Urdu اردو
Welsh Cymraeg
Mental health FAQs
Order mental health leaflets
About our mental health information
Disclaimer about our mental health information
Choosing Wisely - a national campaign
BSL translations
MindEd: web tools for those working with young people
Order mental health packs for schools
Audio resources
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