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Call for Intervention in Case of Boy Left in Windowless Irish Hospital Room for 56 Days

Mad in America

From RTÉ : “[Irish] Taoiseach Leo Varadkar has been urged to intervene in the case of a 14-year-old boy who has been left in a windowless room off a hospital emergency department in Co Kerry for the last 56 days. He has been existing for 56 days in a windowless room off the emergency department in a hospital in Kerry.

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The Second Cohort of Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) Global Center Clinical Fellows From Mozambique Arrives in Brazil for Child Mental Health Training

Child Mind Intitute

The fellows will spend the next year training at the Hospital de Clnicas de Porto Alegre (HCPA) under the supervision of leading clinicians before returning to Nampula in northern Mozambique for an additional year of training and preparation as a multidisciplinary team to strengthen child and adolescent mental health services in the public sector.

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Your Guide To CAMHS Services

The London Psychiatry Centre

If your child has been struggling with mental, emotional, or behavioural issues, you may be wondering about Child and Adolescent Mental Health (CAMHS) Services. These are services that run in areas around the UK to support children and young people with their mental health. What is CAMHS?

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Irish Times: ‘We can’t recruit’: Psychiatrists propose Camhs reforms to improve patient care

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Following the launch of the College paper for A Model of Governance and Management Structures for CAMHS , the Irish Times has covered the current state of Child & Adolescent Mental Health Services in Ireland at present and the College’s proposal for an urgent overhaul.

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From a Paranoid Schizophrenia Diagnosis to a Peer Researcher in Nigeria

Mad in America

The pastor prayed for me and referred us to a hospital by giving us the contact of a psychiatric nurse. I lived a normal life without any medication until mid-2020 when I had another episode and was taken to another hospital where I was admitted but ran away the next day to another town because I believed what I needed was prayer.

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Press Statement: College President at NCHD Conference calls 2025 a ‘pivotal year’ for mental health services in Ireland

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

Dr Lorcan Martin, a consultant in general adult psychiatry, was speaking ahead of his address to non-consultant hospital doctors (NCHDs) in psychiatry at the College of Psychiatrists annual conference, Navigating Psychiatry in a Changing World: A Look at How We Can Embrace the Future, which takes place in Dublin today (Friday).