Mind Of My Own for the Health Sector

Digital tools to transform the delivery of care and outcomes for your young patients and service users

Who is it for?

Practitioners across acute and urgent care settings, including paediatric health and mental health services can use Mind Of My Own with their children and young people. Your health care service will join a community of learning and practice that extends across the British Isles and overseas. Unique insights into the lived experience of young people using your services will help you build upon their strengths as well as to detect and intervene early in any difficulties. In understanding children more deeply you will be able to develop meaningful treatment plans.

In turn this helps with both treatment concordance and the young person’s developing sense of responsibility for their own health. Challenging behaviour, particularly among children with learning disability and/or who are autistic may be better understood so that you can respond effectively and with empathy. Those neurodivergent young people will be assisted by the advanced accessibility features, promoting their autonomy. The digital technology will help you reach out to children and young people who may experience social exclusion because of socio-economic disadvantage or belonging to minority groups.

A cross-country systematic review into social participation in mental health services found that participation resulted in better social relationships and less reliance upon formal treatments for users of mental health services.

Webber, M., & Fendt- Newlin, M. (2017)A review of social participation interventions for people with mental health problems. Soc Psychiatry Psychiatr Epidemiol. 2017; 52(4): 369–380.