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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.

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America is Legislating a Return to the Asylum, One Policy at a Time

Mad in America

Lex Steppling, a panelist and organizer with the Los Angeles Community Action Network and All People’s Health Collective said that California’s reputation as a “liberal and progressive” state has “ironically allowed [it] to lead the way … on criminalization of unhoused people.”

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Mad in America

The UN Office of the High Commissioner on Human Rights declared the work “groundbreaking”: In 2017, the Special Rapporteur issued a ground-breaking report addressing the “global burden of obstacles” in mental health settings and in the field of psychiatry. the biased use of evidence in mental health. (

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Press Statement: College welcomes launch of National Model of Care for Consultation-Liaison Psychiatry

College of Psychiatrists of Ireland

The new model of care marks a vital step forward in the provision of integrated, person-centred mental health care within acute hospital settings. It offers a practical, consistent structure that will benefit both patients and clinical teams.

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Changing culture, one voice at a time: MPs speaking out on mental health

Centre for Mental Health

For the first time, sitting MPs spoke about their own experiences of mental distress and illness. Led by Kevan Jones, now a member of the House of Lords, four MPs detailed past and present experiences of depression, obsessive compulsive disorder, and perinatal depression. Before it, no MP had ever spoken in this way.

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

Mad in America

The Situational Approach Workplace mental health policies and practice have had a huge impact on industry and the workplace, including an enormous cost burdenboth human and economic. Our understanding of key terms and definitions needs to be clear and consistent if our prevention efforts are to be effective.

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

Mad in America

Therefore, in terms of crisis situations, I think it is similar only in the sense that the person is still there, the person is still present, so there would be no need to do any kind of “best interpretation.” So, as you are a human rights defender, a psychiatric survivor, how does this book confront the idea of ​​mental health?