YoungMinds Book Award 2010
Established in 2003, the annual book award seeks to raise awareness and create understanding of mental health needs of children and young people. As well as raising the profile of YoungMinds, its work contributes to our policy and campaigning objectives.
Fiction can often be an easier way to explore mental health problems, providing detailed information in an accessible and engaging format for both teenagers and adults. Books such as those submitted for the £2,000 award , sponsored by Booktrust, can help break the isolation experienced by young people and demonstrate that their feelings and problems are not unique.
The Book Award runs along side the annual lecture and has become Young Minds main public relations event. A ceremony and reception are held in central London in November/December for YoungMinds’ stakeholders, including key figures from the children and young people’s mental health sector, allied charities, politicians and policy makers as well as the publishing industry.
In 2008 Professor Tanya Byron, child psychologist and star of the BBC’s A House of Tiny Tearaways addressed the audience about the role of the internet, and the media in challenging the stigma associated with mental health. In previous years Jon Snow, journalist and presenter of the channel 4 news, Al Aynsley Green, Children’s Commissioner for England and Sir Michael Rutter, the ‘father of child psychology’ have given the lecture.
If you would under 25 and would like to review any of books below, to choose the shortlist for the YoungMinds Book Award 2010 please contact Hannah Smith at hannah.smith@youngminds.org.uk The books
selected for the long list are:
