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America is Legislating a Return to the Asylum, One Policy at a Time

Mad in America

But states had already allocated the funding for public health initiatives that addressed the traumatic effects of the pandemic, including programs like peer respites , a voluntary, non-carceral approach to community support that psychiatric survivors have been advocating for since the 1970s.

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Dynamics of Mental Health Policy in Indonesia

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

Mad in America

During a severe break on March 13, 2024, which led to the longest hospital stay he ever had, a supportive social worker from Lincoln Hospital intervened on his behalf with steps towards helping Will become whole again. The effects of all these drugs varied each time he took them, often worsening his state of mind.

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University of Bern to Launch Global Mental Health Research Center in Collaboration with WPA

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

Aims and Mission of the Competence Center The new WPA Collaborating Center at the University of Bern will focus on: Higher Education and Training: Developing and delivering comprehensive curricula for teaching and research in the field of mental health.

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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

Mad in America

Australian researchers who tested the hypothesis that national mental health policies, programmes and legislation would lower national suicide rates, found the opposite in their study of 100 countries. In other countries, the same happened.

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Usage of Depression Pills in Children and Young People Must Stop

Mad in America

Copenhagen: Institute for Scientific Freedom; 2024 (freely available). 4 Shifting the balance towards social interventions: a call for an overhaul of the mental health system. Beyond Pills All-Party Parliamentary Group 2024; May. 5 New WHO guidance calls for urgent transformation of mental health policies.