Media
Services we provide to media
Services can be provided on and off rig or remotely. We respect production processes and understand the short deadlines and tight schedules. We can arrange standby and on-call support bespoke to each production.
Pre-production:
- Project and storyline development
- Utilising our extensive knowledge and experience in mental health and psychological wellbeing
- Can include script review
- Pre-production assessments and screening
- Can form part of casting
- May consider issues such as mental health, psychological resilience, fitness to consent, understanding of the project, motication to participate, awareness of potential implications for self and others, readiness to participate, self-care strategies
- Consultation and support for actors
- Both to allow authentic and sensitive portrayal of mental health or psychological difficulties on screen and to ensure self-care of the actors
- Can be provided to children, young people and adults
- Compliance review consultations
- Our Clinical Psychologists are HCPC registered and Chartered with the British Psychological Society so we can provide assessments, advice and consultation on compliance and safety issues
During production:
- Support around mental health issues
- For anyone involved with the production including actors, contributors, production team members
- For children, young people and adults
- Support around exposure to emotive content
- For anyone involved with the production including actors, contributors, production team members
- For children, young people and adults
- Support around immersive / undercover reporting
- For anyone involved with the production including actors, contributors, production team members
- For children, young people and adults
Post-production:
- Support for end of projects
- For anyone involved with the production including actors, contributors, production team members
- For children, young people and adults
- Support for acclimatisation to post-production pursuits
- For anyone involved with the production including actors, contributors, production team members
- For children, young people and adults
Bespoke training and ongoing consultations:
We can provide bespoke training to your production company or team. For example, under our business programmes you will see that we provide mental health champions training followed by ongoing consultations to ensure knowledge-practice links.
Benefits of our involvement
We aim to support you to:
- Manage risk appropriately
- Improve safety of contributors and minimise risks to contributors
- Maintain rights and dignity of everyone involved in your production, especially vulnerable individuals
- Support compliance requirements
- Maintain integrity of production
- Minimise attrition and wastage
- Raise awareness of issues around mental health, psychological resilience and appropriate self-care in media productions