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Children are admitted to CAMHS if they are considered at high risk of suicide or self-harm, but a programme in Liverpool has demonstrated how a particular form of art therapy rapidly reduced suicidal thoughts and accelerated discharges. The average cost of CAMHS admission is £61,000 and yet the community interest company Comics Youth CIC has saved almost 300 lives in four years at a cost of £375 per person.

Adrian Pecotic interviews Dr Graham Durcan, now the director responsible for research and evaluation at the Centre for Mental Health, in the latest podcast made exclusively available to subscribers of Mental Health Knowledge or CareKnowledge.

Last week a UK documentary made headlines through discussing whether young people have become over-medicalised in pursuit of good mental health. Abi Crossland-Otter, a trainee counsellor currently working as a support worker on a mental health ward, argues that the communities people are exposed to in hospital offer more therapeutic value than the drugs administered.

Boris Johnson claimed during campaigning to become Prime Minister that work is both cost-effective and therapeutic for mental health. Is he right? Mental Health Knowledge profiles the costs and outcomes recorded by Possability People's 'Community Employment Service'. The Brighton-based charity supports people with mental health conditions back into work.

Michael O'Sullivan, a Cognitive Behavioural Therapist in Derbyshire Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust, writes for Mental Health Today about how examining "The Walking Dead" through the lens of Compassion Focussed Therapy can inform our response to loss and grief.