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South African and Brazilian Youth Leaders Reimagine Global Mental Health Care

Child Mind Intitute

These cross-cultural dialogues are an invaluable way to share learnings and insights for the next generation of mental health leaders and an important part of the SNF Global Center’s work. The post South African and Brazilian Youth Leaders Reimagine Global Mental Health Care appeared first on Child Mind Institute.

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Mad in Portugal

Mad in America

One group took a left-wing approach, limiting their efforts to improving existing psychiatric hospitals while viewing alternative solutions as attempts to privatize the mental health sector.

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99 Pubs and Zero Followers? Psychiatric Leadership in the Age of Influencers

Psychiatric Times

While influencers and celebrities talk about their own experiences with mental health issues and drive conversations about mental health on social media, I spend most of my time on an inpatient forensic unit separated from the rest of the world and from my iPhone by metal detectors, gates, and correctional officers.

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How to be a Critical Psychologist Without Losing Your Soul: A Conversation With Zenobia Morrill, José Giovanni Luiggi-Hernández and Justin Karter

Mad in America

I’d asked her something about alternatives to global mental health or what kind of alternative approaches we could use. I would encourage people to read a book, maybe not to get that information from TikTok, not to get that information from Instagram or Facebook or whatever it is that they’re using.

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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). The alarming consequence is interventions with cascading blind spots where information is incomplete or culturally misaligned.

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New WHO Guidance Calls for Paradigm Shift in Mental Health Policy

Mad in America

The publication was WHOs first comprehensive mental health guidance it has issued in 20 years, and it puts human rights at the center of its call for fundamental changes in global mental health policies. There needs to be more accountability.

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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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