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The new peer workforce in mental health services: Optimising implementation and maximising value

Centre for Mental Health

Peer support in mental health care An NHS audit in 2023 found that there are over 1,000 peer workers – staff with lived experience of mental ill health employed in peer support roles – working in NHS-commissioned mental health services. Becoming a peer support worker was transformative.

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South African and Brazilian Youth Leaders Reimagine Global Mental Health Care

Child Mind Intitute

Through a unique partnership with the Ministry of Education, they are transforming schools into welcoming and inclusive spaces, where conflicts are resolved collaboratively and where respect and diversity are valued. Both groups shared challenges they face in integrating racism and sexism into conversations around mental health.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

R egardless of the context and cause, distress is increasingly interpreted and diagnosed as a mental illnesscommonly clinical depression and/or anxiety disorder. The biomedical approach to distress has spread beyond the health/mental health sector and has seeped into every sector of the community.