Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Physical Activity and Mental Health in Children and Young People Executive Summary [PDF: 208kb] (2009) The Scottish Government and NHS Health Scotland have identified physical activity and mental health as key target areas for health improvement. NHS Health Scotland commissioned a review level Evidence Briefing of the links between these key areas in children and young people. A Practitioner's Briefing of this evidence was also produced: Healthy Bodies, Healthy Minds: Physical Actvity and Mental Health in Children and Young People Practitioners Briefing [PDF: 268kb] (2009) NHS Health Scotland Commentary on NICE Public Health Intervention Guidance 7: Interventions in schools to prevent and reduce alcohol use among children and young people [PDF: 102kb] (2008) NHS Health Scotland produces Commentaries on NICE Public Health Guidance. The process involves consideration of the evidence cited and the recommendations presented in the NICE Guidance, in the context of policy and practice in Scotland. NHS Health Scotland Commentary on NICE Public Health Intervention Guidance 12: Promoting children’s social and emotional wellbeing in primary education [PDF: 179kb] (2008) NHS Health Scotland produces Commentaries on NICE Public Health Guidance. The process involves consideration of the evidence cited and the recommendations presented in the NICE Guidance, in the context of policy and practice in Scotland. Scottish Perspective on NICE public health guidance 20: Promoting young people's social and emotional wellbeing in secondary education [PDF: 132kb] (2010) NHS Health Scotland produces ‘Scottish Perspectives’ on NICE public health guidance to enable the action recommendations, adapted or amended if considered appropriate, to be used to support the development and implementation of policy and practice in Scotland. Truth Hurts: Report of the National Inquiry into Self-harm among Young People [external site] Report detailing the inquiry that Mental Health Foundation and Camelot Foundation undertook to gather evidence about self-harm in young people. Growing Up in Scotland: Change in early childhood and the impact of significant events[PDF: 643KB] (June 2010) Reports on children experiencing parental separation, moving house, parental job-loss and maternal health problems and how these events relate to factors that are known drivers of child outcomes. Growing Up in Scotland - 2010 - Topic Research Findings: Research Findings No.3/2010: Growing Up in Scotland: Maternal mental health and its impact on child behaviour and development [PDF: 176KB] (April 2010) This document is one of a series that summarises key findings from the fourth sweep of the survey, It presents key findings from the Growing up in Scotland report, maternal mental health and it's impact on child behaviour and development. Growing Up in Scotland: Growing Up in Scotland: Maternal mental health and its impact on child behaviour and development [PDF: 2Mb] (April 2010) This document contains data from natural mothers interviewed at the time of the first sweep of GUS undertaken in 2005/2006. Interviews were first conducted when their baby was aged 10 months old and subsequently re-interviewed annually on three further occasions, until their children were almost four years old. Children and Young People's Emotional Wellbeing and Mental Health National Support Team: The learning: 'What good looks like' [PDF: 44kb] (April 2010) This document outlines the key elements of ‘What good looks like’ in terms of improving outcomes locally for the emotional wellbeing of all children and young people, and children and young people with a specific mental health need. National Perinatal Mental Health Project [PDF: 859KB] (March 2011) The remit of this Department of Health report and related studies is to facilitate a better understanding of how, and to what extent current and planned perinatal provision is capable of meeting the needs of BME women. Issues facing parents who have mental health problems [PDF: 183KB] (February 2010) The paper has been produced by Outside the Box. It builds on work done with Stepping Stones who wanted to plan what sort of support they could offer to members who are parents.