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Syrian youth and stress

SciDev.Net explores biological and psychological measures of how Syrian youth respond to stress.
Contributor(s): 
MHIN Team
Post date: 
16 Feb 2017
Approach: 
Human rights
Empowerment and service user involvement
Disorder: 
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
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Ethiopian mental health strategy: Poor can gain more healthy life years as compared to the rich

Contributor(s): 
MHIN Team
Post date: 
28 Oct 2016
Disorder: 
Psychosis/bipolar disorder
Depression/anxiety/stress-related disorders
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Suicide prevention and the 'safeTALK' review

The Mental Elf discusses safeTALK and other suicide prevention programmes with Stanley Kutcher, Olivia Kirtley, and Alys Cole-King in the wake of the provocative recent review article "School- and Community-Based Youth Suicide Prevention Interventions: Hot Idea, Hot Air, or Sham?"
Contributor(s): 
Stan Kutcher
Post date: 
20 Jul 2016
Approach: 
Prevention and promotion
Training, education and capacity building
Disorder: 
Self-harm/suicide
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Mental health care in the community: lessons from India

Manoj Kumar, who heads up the Mental Health Action Trust in the Indian state of Kerala, talks about his work in providing community mental health care for poor people in the area.
Contributor(s): 
Manoj Kumar
Jyothi Arayambath
Post date: 
13 Jul 2016
Approach: 
Human rights
Task sharing
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Training, education and capacity building
Disorder: 
All disorders
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Global Mental Health: How are we doing?

Drs Shekhar Saxena, Dan Chisholm and Fahmy Hanna talk about key messages from the World Health Organization's Mental Health Atlas.
Contributor(s): 
Dan Chisholm
Fahmy Hanna
Post date: 
2 Aug 2015
Approach: 
Policy and legislation
Human rights
Prevention and promotion
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Disorder: 
All disorders
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Enabling Shared Learning from the GMH Community

Recorded at the Grand Challenges Canada and National Institute of Mental Health Community Meeting in Toronto (June 2015), Mary De Silva, Shamaila Usmani and Georgia Lockwood-Estrin discuss lessons from the body of research generated by Grand Challenges Canada grantees
Contributor(s): 
Mary De Silva
Shamaila Usmani
Georgia Lockwood Estrin
Post date: 
1 Aug 2015
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Partnerships to Strength Local Research Capacity Part 2

Muthoni Mathai and Ann Vander Stoep share their experiences of building effective partnerships through their respective organizations in Kenya and the United States to strengthen local research capacity
Post date: 
15 Jul 2015
Approach: 
Training, education and capacity building
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Partnerships to Strength Local Research Capacity Part 1

Palmira Fortunato dos Santos & Milton Wainberg share their experiences of building effective partnerships through their respective organizations in Mozambique and the United States to strengthen local research capacity.
Contributor(s): 
Palmira Santos
Milton Wainberg
Post date: 
15 Jul 2015
Approach: 
Training, education and capacity building
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Supporting Families Facing Adversity

Dr Laurie Charles, World Health Organization Guinea Office, discusses the importance of family systems while delivering therapy.
Contributor(s): 
Laurie L. Charlés
Post date: 
13 Jul 2015
Approach: 
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Disorder: 
All disorders
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The core issues in engaging traditional healers for mental health service scale up

Dr Oye Gureje,University of Ibadan, discusses engaging traditional healers.
Post date: 
20 May 2015
Approach: 
Advocacy
Treatment, care and rehabilitation
Disorder: 
All disorders

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