Addis Declaration Persons with psychosocial disabilities and organizations from 5 countries in East Africa region met in Addis Ababa on July 26, 2022 at the East Africa Subregional Convening, organized by Transforming Communities for Inclusion – Global in partnership with CIC-Kenya, TRIUMPH, RDDF and UNSAI, and developed the “Addis Declaration”, through a consultative process, over […]
This article was published in the Medico Friends Circle Bulletin and is being reproduced in good faith from MFC Bulletin (363-364/ Jan-Feb 2015). It is being reposted here, because years of critical psychiatry writings has not changed the mental health system nor brought it any closer to the universal development values, which binds all governments
#WhatWENeed The Department of Disability Studies at the University of Kelaniya, along with The Spectrum, hosted “A Conversation on Mental Health and Wellbeing” on 23rd October as part of the 2019 #WhatWENeed campaign. 63 people participated in this event which was aimed at university students and staff. The Spectrum is a peer driven organization in
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(Brussels) – Council of Europe member states should oppose new proposed standards regulating the detention and forced treatment of people with disabilities, Human Rights Watch said today. The body in charge of developing the standards, the Council of Europe’s Committee on Bioethics (DH-BIO), consisting of experts from each member state, is to meet on November 21, 2018
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
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
Reblog from Mad in America Sadie Cathcart recently wrote on Mad in America about a new study on autism by Monique Botha and David M. Frost from the University of Surrey. Botha and Frost write “The minority model of disability is underpinned by the notion that one can have a condition the medical model considers a disability, but
#WhatWENeed is full CRPD Compliance on the inclusion of persons with psychosocial disabilities. Partners for reframing from Mental Health to Inclusion this International Mental Health Week, 2018[1] Persons with psychosocial disabilities, users and survivors of psychiatry, people with \”mad\” identities and other identities thereof are herewith calling for support to have our voices amplified through
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