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

Mad in America

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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Further Afield… Evolving Imperatives for Adolescent Mental Health Policy in LMICs

Asian Journal of Psychiatry

Publication date: Available online 3 March 2025 Source: Asian Journal of Psychiatry Author(s): Sheila Ramaswamy, Saurabh Shashi Ashok, Shekhar Seshadri

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Suicides Increase After National Suicide Prevention Introduced

Mad in America

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?

Mad in America

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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Mental Wellbeing Impact Assessments: Ensuring government policy supports good mental health

Centre for Mental Health

Therefore, understanding both the intended and unintended impacts of government policy on mental health is crucial for creating more inclusive and effective policies that foster healthier, more resilient communities. A mental health policy test is a simple and effective way to do this.

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

Mad in America

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.