Remembering Ndakasi
This story is a loving and sobering tribute to a gorilla who became famous for a selfie posted with her care taker a few years ago, her fellow orphans and ...
Music Video, Pick: Parekh & Singh – I Love You Baby, I Love You Doll
“I cannot help it if I’m hard to love. There are things about me you don’t know…” The fresh new sound of India… Kolkata dream-pop duo chart the agony and ...
Testimony: “Coping as a Carer”
Important video from the amazing team at Mind. Chloe, Ally and Kate talk about what it’s like to care for someone with a mental health problem and how they look ...
“Carers Week”: One of the many initiatives the UK can be proud of and that we should replicate in our countries
The UK are at the forefront of everything Mental Health related, in Europe; and today marks the start of one more meaningful local initiatives: Carers Week 2015. But what are ...
Innovation in Deinstitutionalization: a WHO Expert Survey
Although community-based services are widely regarded as the best approach for providing mental health treatment and care, most low- and middle-income countries continue to spend the vast majority of their scarce mental ...
The core issues in engaging traditional healers for mental health service scale up
Oje Gureje,University of Ibadan, discusses engaging traditional healers. This was recorded at the Grand Challenges Canada Seattle meeting 2014, during a session titled: ‘Bridging traditional indigenous approaches with mental health care’. Editing ...
Launch of the Global Mental Health Policy Influence Toolkit
Overseas Development Institute (ODI) and the Mental Health Innovation Network have launched a new resource called the “Global Mental Health Policy Influence Toolkit“. This policy toolkit aims to provide innovators ...
“Ladies and gentlemen, that’s what we do with people with mental illness”
Crowdsourced tool for depression Peer-to-peer application outperforms conventional self-help technique for easing depression, anxiety.
Written by Larry Hardesty, Reproduced from MIT News Office, initially published on March 30, 2015 Researchers at MIT and Northwestern University have developed a new peer-to-peer networking tool that enables sufferers of ...
Making Mental Health Count in Europe: The social and Economic Costs of Neglecting Mental Health Care
Emily Hewlett from the OCDE Paris, presents the results of extensive OCDE study on the state of Mental Health in Europe. The report published in July, 2014, can be found ...