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Many of you are doing hard work making mental illness and mental health visible, including through the press. Please submit links to advocacy articles or radio broadcasts relevant to our Call for Action. To submit, you must first join the Movement.
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SOUTH ASIA NEEDS TO ROOT OUT MENTAL HEALTH STIGMAS: Negative social attitudes towards mental illness are a problem that can't be addressed in a purely medical framework: Jagannath Lamichhane: Mental health is generally excluded from the social context in developing countries. The absence of mental health policy and programmes, negligible budgets for mental health care, and routine human rights violations of mentally ill people are evidence of the need for action. Click here to read more
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The Perinatal Mental Health Project, as part of the Mental Health and Poverty Project, launched a brand new website with detailed information about maternal mental health, In addition they have linked their recently produced short film 'Caring for Mothers' Click here for the film link.
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Notes for Psychiatrists: Take Radical Steps JAGANNATH LAMICHHANE Can psychiatrists think about radical innovations in mental health? Are psychiatrists successful in communicating strong messages for their role in building a healthy society, and in what scale do they deserve the potential? Can psychiatrists redefine their role from treating mentally ill people to contributing to nation building? Click here to read more
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What a mess : Mental health & Society : Jagannath Lamichhane says : This week, I visited a few psychiatric wards in Kathmandu, both in public and private hospitals including the Mental Hospital in Patan. Some revelations of the psychiatric wards are quite awful. Click here to read more
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Beyond Women's Day : Jagannath Lamichhane : More than two-thirds of the population who live in poverty are women. Women suffer more acutely from both discrimination and violence because of their gender. This makes it very hard for women in poverty to enjoy their rights to health, education, shelter, food — the same rights in turn could help them break out of poverty,” Amnesty International reports in its recent newsletter to highlight International Women’s Day, March 8. Click here to read more
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During the summer 2010 semester, New York Law School (NYLS) will be offering two of its courses in its online, distance learning mental disability law program: Survey of Mental Disability Law, and Sex Offenders. NYLS now offers twelve different online courses in all aspects of mental disability law studies, as well as a masters degree and an Advanced Certificate, all in the same online format. Courses are described at www.nyls.edu/mdl; registration of students for summer courses is open now, and anyone interested should contact Liane Bass, esq., Senior Administrator of the program (lbass@nyls.edu). We will be posting the fall schedule in the very near future. The courses are appropriate for law students, practicing lawyers, mental health professionals, international human rights activists, and mental health activists and advocates. |
More information : Visit the website: www.nyls.edu/mdl or write to Ms. Bass or to Prof. Michael L. Perlin, mperlin@nyls.edu, Director, Online Mental Disability Law Program, New York Law School. |
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Gurus of Mental Health : mental health & society : Jagannath Lamichhane : Two years ago, when I started writing a series of articles on mental health, I wasn't much aware that changes were underway in the world of mental health. Since then, I have been noticing significant changes in this area. Fortunately, on some occasions, I have been part of the changes. Click here to read more
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The Wellbeing Foundation is a Public interest mental health and wellbeing Trust registered for the sake and the geographical area of Coimbatore in an around in Tamil Nadu state of south India. Screening and detection of early mental illness, referring to the medical help, counselling, mainstreaming the mentally treated persons to the family setup, caring for the aged and for their mental health, creating geriatric clubs, day care centres, generating wellbeing activities in the society, geraitirc and psychiatric nursing care, stress management and related activities, publishing news letter, follow-up action towards the mentally treated person, rehabilitation and vocational trainning for the mentally treated and persons sufferring with metal illness, protecting the civil and human rights of the mentally sufferring persons and all other relevent activities and advocacies. Micro level programmes, home visits and helping the mentally sufferring persons at their ends are the unique supports to the persons sufferring with mental illness from the Wellbeing foundation. Also social research, field research with the government, universities and Institutions involeved in mental health purpose.
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