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A review has suggested giving patients who are detained in hospital the right to appeal decisions about their treatment. Sadly, this may never happen.
Undergraduate students need a learning community that meets throughout their degrees for workshops and community-building. Such a post-secondary ‘homeroom’ could multiply positive connections.
Cognitive behavioural therapy has become a go to for clinicians treating symptoms of schizophrenia. Recent studies suggest that this is a mistake.
People who attempt suicide can access medical care at their clinics but psychologists, psychiatrists and social workers are not part of the primary health care setting.
In South Africa one of the biggest barriers to suicide prevention is that psychiatric and substance use services are often not integrated.
Architecture can affect behaviour and the choices we make. The brief is out for a centre to replace the Don Dale facility, but word is, it's 'a disgrace'. We can do much better.
Many women are not getting the right kind of attention.
The 94 people with mental health disorders who died after they were moved from the Life Esidemeni facility and put into inadequate care shows the poor state of mental health care in South Africa.
A doctor has been convicted of abusing vulnerable women in his care – because a court finally decided to listen to their stories.
In developing countries mental health care generally takes a backseat when it comes to allocating resources.
A growing body of research literature suggests time spent gardening is as good for the gardener as it is for the garden.
Forgiveness, as we have seen in the aftermath of the Charleston killings, is a hallmark of the Black Church. But what psychic toll do these acts of forgiveness exact?
A proposal to re-direct a billion dollars of funding from acute hospital mental health services to the community risks causing a major destabilisation of the public mental health system.
The health service has a long history both of abuse and the failure to do anything about it.
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Senior Lecturer in the Psychology Department, Stellenbosch University
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Researcher, University of Technology Sydney
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Scientia Professor & Head of the School of Psychiatry, UNSW
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Professor of Psychiatry, Director of National Centre for Mental Health, Cardiff University
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Chair professor, University of Liverpool
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Associate Professor of Social Work; McSilver Faculty Fellow, New York University
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Professor of Cognitive Neuropsychology, University of Hertfordshire
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Lecturer in urban horticulture, University of Melbourne
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Professor of Law and Social Justice, University of Leeds
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Research co-ordinator, University of Pretoria
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Lecturer in Law, Keele University
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Occupational Therapist, University of the Witwatersrand
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Researcher in Psychology, Stellenbosch University
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Consultant Psychiatrist Department of Psychiatry and Mental Health, University of Cape Town
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Professor of Psychiatry, University of Glasgow
