Centre for Mental Health
JANUARY 15, 2025
As we enter the second quarter of the 21 st century, its worth reflecting on what a challenging period this has been for mental health and local government. We provide Network members with free resources (like our guide to conducting an effective mental health needs assessment ) and other training and networking opportunities.
Child Mind Intitute
AUGUST 29, 2024
The Child Mind Institute is proud to have founded several programs that increase mental health equity worldwide by fostering the next generation of mental healthcare professionals. It also aims to cultivate a future generation of diverse and culturally sensitive mental health care providers.
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Centre for Mental Health
MARCH 4, 2025
Forty years ago, on 1 March 1985, Centre for Mental Health was established as a charity, as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development. What drives us most deeply is a relentless determination to tackle (and reduce) mental health inequality. Mental health inequalities are social and economic inequalities.
Mad in America
MAY 21, 2025
His critiques extend to how psychiatric categories reflect colonial histories and obscure social causes , as well as how attempts to localize mental health interventions may still impose Western norms. Most of what we do depends on our more complex mental faculties, and those faculties are, at their core, social.
Mad in America
MAY 4, 2024
I n 1999, New York State passed the first Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) law, which creates a regime of civil courts to force psychiatric interventions on those found to have “serious and persistent mental illness” who “struggle to engage voluntarily” with care. What made this year different?
Mad in America
DECEMBER 31, 2024
Please donate to help us continue our work in 2025 and beyond. However, the NIMHs tight focus on funding genetic research has also prevented the exploration of the known psychological causes of schizophrenia, such as the impact of trauma, isolation, and poverty. You can become a MIA Supporter for $5 per month or $20 annually.
Mad in America
MAY 20, 2025
These changes can affect how we respond to stress, regulate emotions, and develop mental health conditions. Rather than just focusing on inherited genes, we need to consider how early experiences, especially those within families, can influence epigenetic changes that impact mental health.
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