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Cllr Anne Phelan has spoken out about the issues surrounding mental health following the recent publication of a HSE report on suicide prevention.

Leaders in the field of mental health will meet in Mayo on May 17 and 18 next to meet providers, service users, carers, and family members and to overview the services and share information on how inclusion at all levels, clinical, operational, and strategic is being promoted within the service.

Eoin Stephens has been acknowledged for his incredible work in the field of counselling and psychotherapy. Last weekend, at the Irish Association of Counselling and Psychotherapy (IACP) AGM, he was awarded the Carl Berkeley Memorial Award. As one of Ireland’s foremost experts in the field of counselling and psychotherapy he used the opportunity to acknowledge the great work being done within the profession and to highlight the need for change. Today more than ever, people have stresses and strains in their lives that can be alleviated through talking with a trained professional.

In a today’s society, we all have stresses and crises in our lives that can be alleviated through talking with a trained professional.

The Choose Life-Reach Out group in Mayo is currently running an art competition for schools in the area to re-design a support card for the Choose Life-Reach Out campaign. The art competition is open to 13 to 18-year-olds to redesign a support card and flyer for public circulation.

St Loman’s psychiatric hospital in Mullingar has been earmarked for closure as part of a €50 million HSE investment into mental health facilities, while a new community nursing unit has also been promised for the town.

PCI College is the leading provider of third level educational and continual professional development programmes for mature students in the fields of counselling and psychotherapy, in Ireland. Their offices and main teaching facilities are located in west aDublin but they also operate in Dublin City Centre, Cork, Limerick, Kilkenny, and Athlone. Personal development is a key component to what PCI College do and they offer a number of workshops for anyone to enjoy, no experience necessary. They have introduced a number of new initiatives, endeavouring to share their expertise and give back to the community.

Are issues getting swept under the carpet at your home? Are you worried about your child or teenager’s emotional state or their behaviour when you are not around? Do you find yourself in constant conflict with your spouse or children?

If you look closely enough at a single pebble, if you hold it in front of your eye line, it can obscure the entire horizon. Soon it can seem like the rest of the world no longer exists, such is the magnitude of that pebble which obscures our view.

The National Youth Council of Ireland is very concerned by the latest report from the Mental Health Commission stating that 200 young people under 18 were admitted to adult mental health hospitals in 2007 while 113 young people have been admitted to adult units in the first half of 2008.