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The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward Epistemic Humility

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It can make the mental health system less of a perceived threat, and more of an entrusted, safe resource and tool. The post The Integration of Peer Support Principles in Community Mental Health Policy and Practice: Toward Epistemic Humility appeared first on Mad In America.

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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

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Australian researchers who tested the hypothesis that national mental health policies, programmes and legislation would lower national suicide rates, found the opposite in their study of 100 countries. In other countries, the same happened.

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Irish Psychiatry Says Chemical Imbalance Is a Figure of Speech—So, What Now?

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If the chemical imbalance theory is still what a large swathe of the public believe, don’t researchers, mental health practitioners, and people who are responsible for mental health policies have an ethical responsibility to ensure that the public has the most up-to-date and evidence-based facts?

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

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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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The Birth of The “Just Stop It” Movement: A Family’s Journey Through Mental Health Crisis

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We coined the phrase “Just Stop It” as a call to action for local and global community leaders and mental health policy lawmakers to reform mental health privacy rules that hinder families of young adults struggling with their mental health.

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Reimagining Crisis Support: A Conversation with Tina Minkowitz

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That was what led me to write this book, and also at the same time, or a couple of years before, the World Health Organization had begun to work on what the development of mental health policy frameworks should be like so that they comply with the CRPD, particularly the ban on involuntary measures, and while I was happy that someone was doing it, I (..)

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Default Depression—How We Now Interpret Distress as Mental Illness

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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.