community mental healthcare – A New Vision for Mental Health

Beyond Police and Psychiatrists: Chicago’s Plan to Transform Community Mental Health

Author: Editorial 27th November 2023 0 Comments

“From Jacobin: ‘Police violence and lack of access to essential care services have emerged as twinned hallmarks of American life. In a nation in which people with unmet mental health needs are 16 times more likely to be killed by police,…
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collaborative practice

Chicago, community mental healthcare, Jacobin, Mad in America, police, psychiatry, public health, USA

Australia can learn from a Belgian town where people with mental illness live with dignity in the community

Author: Editorial 12th July 2021 0 Comments

“At one point it became such a sanctuary for the mentally afflicted that it was said that ‘half of Geel is crazy and all of Geel is half crazy’” This article has been written by Gabrielle Carey for The Guardian. It…
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a wellbeing society

Australia, Belgium, community mental healthcare, foster family care, Gabrielle Carey, Geel, Geel Family Research Project, schizophrenia, The Guardian, wellbeing

Coercion in Community Mental Health Care: International Perspectives

Author: Editorial 12th July 2018 0 Comments

Coercion in Community Mental Health Care: International Perspectives, July 2016, edited by Andrew Molodynski, Jorun Rugkåsa and Tom Burns … The publishers say: “The use of coercion is one of the defining issues of mental health care. Since the earliest…
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anthropology, books, coercion, coercive psychiatry, community mental healthcare, history, law, medicine, sociology