Factsheet A-Z
The Rethink National Advice Service provides information and advice to people with mental illness, their family, friends, informal and professional carers on a range of issues affecting people with mental illness and their carers.
Click on the titles below to access the factsheets provided by the National Advice Service (all links to external website, Mental Health Shop).
Access to health records factsheet
Advance statements factsheet
Advocacy factsheet
Antidepressants factsheet
Antipsychotics factsheet
Anxiety disorders factsheet
Appropriate adult factsheet
Assertive outreach factsheet
Attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) factsheet
Benzodiazepines factsheet
Bipolar disorder (manic depression) factsheetBlack & minority ethnic (BME) factsheet
Care and aftercare factsheet
Carers’ assessment factsheet
Cause for concern? factsheet
Childhood mental illness factsheet
Clinical negligence factsheet
Clinical trials factsheet
Complaints factsheet
Complementary therapies factsheet
Confidentiality factsheet
Coping with voices factsheet
Crisis resolution factsheet
Dealing with unusual thoughts and behaviour factsheet
Depression factsheet
Detention under the Mental Health Act factsheet
Direct payments factsheet
Disability Discrimination Act factsheet
Disability Living Allowance (DLA) factsheet
Discharge from detention under the Mental Health Act factsheet
Driving and mental illness factsheet
Dual diagnosis factsheet
Early Intervention factsheet
Eating disorders factsheet
Electroconvulsive Therapy (ECT) factsheet
Getting Help in a crisis factsheet
Heat exhaustion factsheet
Housing options for people with a mental illness factsheet
Incapacity benefit factsheet
Inquests factsheet
Insurance factsheet
Mental Capacity Act factsheet
Mood stabilisers factsheet
Personality disorders factsheet
Personality disorders for carers factsheet
Physical causes of mental illness factsheet
Physical health and nutrition factsheet
Respite care factsheet
Rights to NHS Treatments factsheet
Schizoaffective disorder factsheet
Schizophrenia factsheet
Second opinions factsheet
Self harm factsheet
Smoking and mental illness factsheet
Spirituality and mental illness factsheet
Stress management factsheet
Studying and mental illness factsheet
Suicide prevention factsheet
Suicide? Read this first factsheet
Supported Housing Part 1 Factsheet
Supporting people factsheet
Talking treatments and psychological therapies factsheet
Work and mental illness: getting back to work factsheet
