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Publication - Consultation paper

Mental health and wellbeing strategy: consultation

Published
29 June 2022
Directorate
Mental Health Directorate, +15 more … Children and Families Directorate, Digital Health and Care Directorate, Early Learning and Childcare Directorate, Equality, Inclusion and Human Rights Directorate, Chief Operating Officer, NHS Scotland Directorate, Health Workforce Directorate, Healthcare Quality and Improvement Directorate, Justice Directorate, Learning Directorate, Legal Services (Solicitor to the Scottish Government), Population Health Directorate, Primary Care Directorate, Social Care and National Care Service Development, Social Security Directorate, Tackling Child Poverty and Social Justice Directorate
Topic
Children and families, Communities and third sector, Equality and rights, +3 more … Health and social care, Public sector, Work and skills
ISBN
9781804356579

We want to hear your views on what a new mental health and wellbeing strategy for Scotland should look like. We have asked a series of questions, and your answers to these will help us write the final strategy.

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Questions - Part 6

Access to Advice and Support for Mental Wellbeing

6.1 If you wanted to improve your mental health and wellbeing, where would you go first for advice and support?

  • Friends or family or carer
  • GP
  • NHS24
  • Helplines
  • Local community group
  • Third Sector (charity) support
  • Health and Social Care Partnership
  • Online support
  • School (for example, a guidance teacher or a school counsellor)
  • College or University (for example, a counsellor or a student welfare officer)
  • Midwife
  • Health visitor
  • Community Link Workers
  • Workplace
  • An employability provider (for example, Jobcentre Plus)
  • Other

If you selected 'other', please specify:

6.2 If you answered 'online' could you specify which online support?

6.3 Is there anywhere else you would go to for advice and support with your mental health and wellbeing? Please select all that apply.

  • Friends or family or carer
  • GP
  • NHS24
  • Helplines
  • Local community group
  • Third Sector (charity) support
  • Health and Social Care Partnership
  • Online support
  • School (for example, a guidance teacher or a school counsellor)
  • College or University (for example, a counsellor or a student welfare officer)
  • Midwife
  • Health visitor
  • Community Link Worker
  • Workplace
  • An employability provider (for example, Jobcentre Plus)
  • Other

6.4 If you answered 'online support' could you specify which online support?

6.5 If you answered 'local community group', could you specify which type of group/ activity/ organisation?

6.6 Is there anything else you would like to tell us about this, whether you're answering as an individual or on behalf of any organisation?

6.7 We want to hear about your experiences of accessing mental health and wellbeing support so we can learn from good experiences and better understand where issues lie.

Please use this space to tell us the positive experiences you have had in accessing advice and support for your mental health or wellbeing.

6.8 Is there anything else you would like to tell us about this, whether you're answering as an individual or on behalf of any organisation?

6.9 We also want to hear about any negative experiences of accessing mental health and wellbeing advice and support so we can address these.

If you have experienced barriers to accessing support, what have they been?

  • Lack of awareness of support available
  • Time to access support
  • Travel costs
  • Not the right kind of support
  • Support not available near me
  • Lack of understanding of issues
  • Not a good relationship with the person offering support
  • Having to retell my story to different people
  • Long waits for assessment or treatment
  • Stigma
  • Discrimination
  • Other

6.10 If you selected 'other', could you tell us what those barriers were?

6.11 Is there anything else you would like to tell us about this, whether you're answering as an individual or on behalf of any organisation?

Contact

Email: MentalHealthStrategyEngagement@gov.scot

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