Reblog from Mad in America Noel Hunter recently wrote on Mad in America about how the \’trauma-informed trend often falls short\’. In this article, she argues that while there are more and more mental health professionals who are becoming \’trauma-informed\’ and though the trend is moving in that direction, many of them have not moved beyond the disease […]
LRecently, TCI Asia Pacific spoke with Yeni Rosa Damayanti, Chairperson of the Indonesian Mental Health Association, about her experience with international, regional and national advocacy in human rights for persons with disabilities, the ideologies she aligns herself with and where she sees and hopes to see persons with psychosocial disabilities in the future. Yeni has
An interview series first published on Mad in Asia Pacific looks at the work of three activists working in the Asia Pacific region. Emmy Charissa from Singapore, Silvia Antonia De Costa Soares from Timor Leste and Frank from China speak to Jhilmil Breckenridge from Mad in Asia Pacific. In the first part of this two-part series, the
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#WhatWENeed in Tonga Colonialism and Tonga Tonga was never colonized by any country. It did not have a mental health law until 1992. However, it had \’friendship\’ status for 70 years with Britain. It was a British \’protectorate\’ from 1900 until 1970, when it attained full Independence. It always retained its political sovereignty; However, many
Author: Shivani Gupta Cross-disability perspective to the WhatWeNeed campaign by Shivani Gupta I am a person with a disability working as a cross-disability advocate and am also pursuing a PhD around support structures available to persons with high support needs living in rural communities in India. With very limited knowledge of psychosocial disabilities, I was
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Blog contributed by TCI Asia Pacific #WhatWENeed – Reframing the momentum: From \’mental health\’ to \’inclusion\’ [1] TCI Asia Pacific advocates that the action field for persons with (psychosocial) disabilities is not the \’mental health\’ sector, but the Development sector. When we ask for \’inclusion\’, we have a more universal frame for our advocacy. Introducing
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Originally published on Mad in America Zenobia Morrill recently wrote on Mad in America on Trauma-Informed care with survivors perspectives. Based on a new editorial in the Journal of Mental Health by Dr. Angela Sweeney in collaboration with Dr. Danny Taggart, she writes on trauma informed approaches and how survivors perspectives come into context especially with re-traumatization through
Author: Piers Gooding A new report brings together evidence from around the world on preventing, reducing and ending coercion in mental health settings. The report, authored by Bernadette McSherry, Cath Roper, Flick Grey and myself, was commissioned by the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights to inform the work of the Special Rapporteur on
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#WhatWENeed in Taiwan 1. De-colonization of the mental health sector Taiwan was the first independent, Asian, democratic republic. However, it has had a complex history of colonialism, invasions and occupations by different nationalities (Dutch, Spanish, Chinese, Japanese, etc.). \”Taiwan\’s culture and cultural legacy has been largely shaped by the processes of imperialism and colonization as the structural and psychological
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Excerpts from TCI Asia Pacific Action in Japan Osaka – 22-23 November 2017 #WhatWENeed is peer support as community development, not \”mental health care\” Excerpts from \”TCI Asia Action in Japan\”[1] [2] One of the objectives of TCI AP\’s Japan exchange were: To bring a small group of peer support practitioners from TCI Asia membership and
On 4 September 2018, the Peruvian Government published Legislative Decree No. 1384 that recognizes and regulates the legal capacity of persons with disabilities. The reform was adopted by the Executive following the delegation of legislative powers granted by the Congress via Law No. 30823. The legislative decree adopted, which holds the same status of a
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China Mills (University of Sheffield) writes in Mad in Asia today her thoughts on the Global Ministerial Mental Health Summit and the Lancet Commission on Global Mental Health and Sustainable Development. China Mills is a Lecturer in the School of Education, University of Sheffield, UK. Her research develops the framework of psychopolitics to examine the way mental health gets framed
