The Long Shadow of the Asylum: Why Psychiatric Deinstitutionalisation Still Matters
A new argument in PLOS Mental Health calls for reclaiming psychiatric deinstitutionalisation as a political and ethical project rather than ...
Tag: global mental health
Community Rehabilitation Lifts Quality of Life for People With Psychosis in Malawi
A mixed-methods pilot trial in Blantyre, Malawi found that community-based rehabilitation improved quality of life, functioning, and caregiver wellbeing for ...
Psychiatrists Urged to Move Beyond the Clinic and Practice Pragmatic Solidarity
A PLOS Mental Health essay argues that psychiatrists have an ethical obligation to practice pragmatic solidarity by addressing the structural ...
Five Competences: A New Roadmap for Community Mental Health in Resource-Limited Settings
A mixed-method study in Accra, Ghana, derives five interconnected domains of community mental health competence to guide locally grounded interventions ...
Depression Screening Tool Shows Promise for Teenage Mothers in Uganda, Study Finds
A validation study of 200 postpartum adolescents in urban Uganda found that the CES-D screening tool shows acceptable diagnostic accuracy ...
Measuring Wellbeing in Adolescents Living with HIV: Lessons from Zimbabwe
A Zimbabwean study to build a wellbeing scale for adolescents living with HIV failed to produce a valid total score ...
Building Mental Health Care With Communities: How Theory of Change Shaped a New Psychosis Intervention in Africa
Researchers co-produced a community-based rehabilitation intervention for people living with psychosis in four African countries through iterative Theory of Change ...
Village Grandmothers and Mothers Test a New Mental Health Program for Rural China
Researchers in rural Sichuan have developed a nonspecialist-delivered mental health program for mothers and grandmothers of young children, built through ...
Childhood Adversities Leave Lasting Mark on Depression Risk in Young South African Women
A seven-year study of over 2,000 young women in rural South Africa finds that low caregiver care, food insecurity, partner ...
Digital Therapies for Depression Show Promise in Low-Income Countries, but the Evidence Remains Thin
A new scoping review finds only twelve studies of digital interventions for major depressive disorder in low- and middle-income countries, ...
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Mothers who receive childcare support from maternal grandparents show more parental warmth, finds NTU Singapore study
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University of Seville Breaks 120-Year-Old Mystery, Revises a Key Einstein Concept
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Bee body mass, pathogens and local climate influence heat tolerance
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Researchers record first-ever images and data of a shark experiencing a boat strike
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Groundbreaking Clinical Trial Reveals Lubiprostone Enhances Kidney Function
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