mental health education

Mental Health Education in Schools

Mental health education lessons are coming to the national curriculum [UK] next year [2020]. Teachers should be empowered to acknowledge that mental health is a contested area, argues psychologist and lecturer Anne Cooke. Ask students
voice hearing

NEWS: On Voice Hearing

There are communities in which hearing voices frequently is common and expected, and in which participants are not expected to have a need for care. This paper compares the ideas and practices of these communities.
mind

What is Mind vis a vis Mental Health?

Mind Defined …At a meeting of 40 scientists across disciplines, including neuroscientists, physicists, sociologists, and anthropologists, the aim was to come to an understanding of the mind that would appeal to common ground and satisfy
Powell

Two Books Re: Adding Spirituality to Mental Healthcare

 Dr. Powell Many health problems arise from emotional and spiritual suffering and need to be addressed at a deeper level than technology and medications.  Research findings and clinical experience increasingly reveal that spiritual factors have
exercise

Exercise & Mental Health 2022 Report

Hot off the press, this report summarizes the last three decades of research on the links between exercise and mental health. Does Exercise Impact Mental Health? Briefly: Existing scientific research overwhelmingly indicates that exercise and
psychedelic-assisted-therapy

States Exploring Psychedelic-Assisted Psychotherapy

Over the course of the past year, several states across the US have taken legal action to expand access to psychedelic-assisted therapies for some citizens. According to the Department of Veteran Affairs (VA), as much as
WHO

Human Rights in Mental Health: A Paradigm Shift At WHO

 Human Rights Model Promoted in New Guidance There is new guidance for mental health clinics published at the World Health Organization that represents a paradigm shift from a biomedical model to a human rights model. 
power-threat-meaning

Beyond the Mental Health Paradigm: The power threat meaning framework

Not only is it time to abandon psychiatric diagnosis, it is time to move beyond the medicalised perspective of ‘mental health’. A new framework for understanding how we all cope with distress – the power