World Mental Health Day – Emerald provides free online access to health and social care journals

Oct. 10, 2012 - PRLog -- United Kingdom, 09 October 2012 – With 350 million of us suffering from depression at some point in our lives, the theme of this year’s World Mental Health Day -  “Depression: A Global Crisis” - will resonate with many. Emerald Group Publishing supports this annual campaign, organized by the World Health Organization to raise public awareness about mental health issues, and provides free online access to its complete collection of 31 health and social care journals until the end of October. For free access details, visit www.emeraldinsight.com/tk/wmhd2012

The Emerald Health and Social Care collection contains over 5,000 articles and spans subjects such as mental health and well-being, criminal justice and care, intellectual and learning disabilities. Within the Mental Health sub-collection key titles include Journal of Public Mental Health, Mental Health Review Journal, The Journal of Adult Protection, and Mental Health and Social Inclusion.

Recent articles have included an investigation into depression in adolescents with intellectual disabilities, measuring the change in depression and anxiety symptoms of drug and alcohol users and a look at the lessons learned from a year long peer support project undertaken by Nottinghamshire Healthcare NHS.

Organized by the World Health Organization (WHO), World Mental Health Day is held on 10 October each year to promote open discussion of mental disorders, and investments in prevention, promotion and treatment services. To find out more about World Mental Health Day, visit www.who.int/mediacentre/.../world_mental_health_day/en/index.htm

For further information about Emerald’s Health and Social Care collection, visit www.emeraldinsight.com/products/collections/hsc.htm

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