• Alzheimer’s Society
• Contact a Family
• Counselling Directory
• Depression Alliance
• Depression UK

• Dementia UK
• GET Self Help (Guernsey) for Cognitive Behavioural Therapy
• Hypnotherapy Directory
• MDF The Bipolar Organisation
• Mental Health Care (Maudsley Hospital Institute of Psychiatry)

• The Mental Health Foundation
• MIND
• Multikulti
• National Personality Disorder
• No Panic

• OvercomeDepression
• Rethink
• Sane
• The Samaritans
• UK & Ireland Directory of Counselling and Psychotherapy

Please check out the Carers Direct section provided through NHS Choices, find out all you need to know about Caring and your rights.

• British Journal of Mental Health Nursing
• British Journal of Nursing
• British Journal of Psychiatry
• British Journal of Social Work
• British Medical Journal (BMJ)
• Centre for Mental Health
• Department of Health (DoH)
• Evidence Based Practice (RCN)
• Learning Disability Practice (RCN)
• Mental Health Practice (RCN)
• National Health Service Evidence Search
• National Institute for Clinical Excellence (NICE)
• Nursing Management (RCN)
• Nursing Older People (RCN)
• Nurse Researcher (RCN)
• Nursing Standard (RCN)
• Nursing Times
• The Cochrane Library

• • Eleanor Longdon - The Voices in my Head
  • Faith Jegede: What I've learned from my autistic brothers
  • Jill Bolte Taylor: My stroke of insight
  • Joshua Walters: On being just crazy enough
  • Ruby Wax: What's so funny about mental illness?
  • Sherwin Nuland: How Electroshock Therapy Changed Me
  • Stanford's Sapolsky On Depression in U.S. (Full Lecture)

Mental Health Nursing can be a rewarding, yet challenging career. Nursing is only one of many different professions that work in close contact with individuals suffering with a mental health crisis. Other professions include; Medics, Physiotherapists, Occupational Therapists, Speech and Language Therapists, Social Workers, Pharmacists etc. Please use links below to find out more about becoming a health care professional:

• NHS Careers

• Step into the NHS

• Student Finance

• University and Colleges Admission Service (UCAS)