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The Whispered Rules of Belonging: How Counseling Education Tried to Silence Me

Mad in America

We’re already doing so much in this field for marginalized populations, more than any other mental health profession. This time, I proposed a presentation on decolonizing mental health care and increasing accessibility for students, clinicians, and clients of color. I brought evidence. Pain becomes a diagnosis.

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Mad in Puerto Rico

Mad in America

Throughout her teenage years, everything Lopez-Aybar did was treated as a sign of her mental illness. These early experiences inspired Lopez-Aybar to get her PhD in clinical psychology and focus her research on psychiatric violence and social determinants of health. “I Her clinical training only reinforced her existing concerns. “I

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Between Diagnoses and Dialogue: The Silent Conflict Between Psychiatry and Psychology

Mad in America

I n recent decades, mental health has become one of the most widely discussed issues in public discourse, health policies, and clinical practice. Although both fields claim a commitment to mental health care, psychiatry and psychology are grounded in very different epistemological frameworks.

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Tackling social determinants will reduce the global mental health burden: mega-blog of current prevention strategies

The Mental Elf

Xiaolin Guo, a MSc student in Global Mental Health at the University of Glasgow, and Nina Higson-Sweeney summarise a recent narrative review exploring the social determinants of mental health and associated prevention strategies.

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New WHO Guidance Calls for Paradigm Shift in Mental Health Policy

Mad in America

O n March 25, the World Health Organization published a 44-page document, Guidance on Mental Health Policy and Strategic Action Plans , that reflects the ongoing work of global activists who have fought for a paradigm shift in mental health. This is not just another event. Its a call to action.

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Heritability Explains Less About Mental Disorders Than You Think

Mad in America

However, mental disorders are not concrete things that can be found with a brain scanner or treated with medication like a bacterial infection with antibiotics. Much has already been written about these points, for example in my book on mental health and substance use (open access). This is all forbidden for ethical reasons.

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From Public Service to Private Practice: The Collapse of the Social Work Profession

Mad in America

T he social work profession was historically rooted in a mission of improving the lives of the vulnerable, the oppressed, and those living in poverty. Social work originated with the Settlement House movement as a response to the increasing poverty brought about by industrialization. They seem to have been onto something.