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South African and Brazilian Youth Leaders Reimagine Global Mental Health Care

Child Mind Intitute

In South Africa, as in many places around the world, young people have faced exclusion from important mental health policy and decision-making spaces, resulting in policies and practices being developed without their voices included. So, I wanted to be part of something that creates real change.”

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WPA Supporting World Mental Health Day 2024: Mental Health at Work

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

Onthe 10thofOctober(Thursday), the global community unites once again to celebrate World Mental Health Day (WMHD), an initiative organised by the World Federation for Mental Health(WFMH)and endorsed by the World Health Organization (WHO).

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Collaborative Solutions: Cross-Sector Partnerships Transforming Mental Health Data Systems Across Cultures

Child Mind Intitute

Mental health conditions now account for a staggering 16 percent of the noncommunicable diseases (NCDs) burden, with disproportionate impacts on young people living in low- and middle-income countries (LMICs). Humanitarian imperative New research projects that expand mental health interventions could contribute USD 4.3

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Oxford strengthens global mindfulness research with £1 million gift

Department of Psychiatry News

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The Poetics and Politics of Our Mental Health Metaphors: An Interview with Laurence Kirmayer

Mad in America

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.

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Oxford-developed support for child anxiety to be adapted for families in Chile

Department of Psychiatry News

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New OPM-MEG brain scanner installed at the Oxford Centre for Human Brain Activity (OHBA)

Department of Psychiatry News

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