The Mental Elf

Edilma Yearwood, Past President of the International Society of Psychiatric-Mental Health NursesExamining the Evidence on Mental Health Literacy and Stigma Reduction in Low and Middle-Income CountriesAnthony Jorm defines mental health literacy as the “knowledge and beliefs about mental disorders which aid their recognition, management or prevention (1997, p. 182).” This presentation will explore types and impact of stigma on individuals and communities dealing with mental illnesses and describe the role of mental health literacy in healthcare. Existing evidence on stigma reduction associated with increasing mental health literacy among care providers, families and individuals challenged by psychiatric symptoms in low-and middle-income countries will be presented.Dr. Edilma Yearwood is a certified Child and Adolescent Psychiatric-Mental Health nurse with over 40 years of clinical, teaching and research experience. She is Chair of the Department of Professional Nursing Practice at Georgetown University in the School of Nursing & Health Studies.https://twitter.com/Mental_Elf/status/1172443118538383360

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Professor Sue McAndrew, Professor of Mental Health and Young People, University of SalfordMHNAUK Lecture - Connect Three: Winning the game by exploring the mental ill health connections between young service users, adult users of services and young carers.

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Professor Ricardo Araya, Lead of the Global Mental Health Research Group and Director of the Centre for Global Mental Health, King’s College LondonGlobal mental health: how to fill in the gaphttps://twitter.com/Mental_Elf/status/1172130362484494336Professor Araya will present some basic information on global mental health, with a focus on low-and-middle income countries. The huge treatment gap and the reasons leading to this situation will be highlighted. Some successful innovative solutions that have been used in an attempt to fill in this gap will be presented and. Among these the role of task-shifting in so far as transferring the healthcare of people with mental health problems to non-medical doctors and the role technology can play assisting this strategy. He will attempt to draw some lessons from this experience that can be applied to more developed countries.

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Professor Fiona Nolan, Florence Nightingale Foundation Clinical Professor of Mental Health Nursing, University of Essex - Improving mental health care through nurse education in low income countries; a Mongolian case study.Please download and fill in Fiona Nolan's checklist for the Mongolian Mental Health Nursing Training Course: What should we focus on in our one year post graduate course?https://elfi.sh/nolan-checklistPlease email your completed form to: [email protected]

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The role of strategic litigation in pursuing human rights-compliant reform of mental health services.

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Soteria: the Final Frontier of Deinstitutionalization

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Improving housing and recovery outcomes for persons experiencing homelessness and mental health challenges.

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The 'inconvenient complications' of peer support in mental health.

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Natalie Drew Bold from the WHO tells us about the QualityRights initiative, which aims to improve access to good quality mental health and social services and to promote the rights of people with psychosocial disabilities throughout the worldhttps://www.who.int/mental_health/policy/quality_rights/en/

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Peer support : an under-utilized resource in low-middle income countries. Soumitra Pathare (@netshrink) is a Consultant Psychiatrist & Director of Centre for Mental Health Law & Policy at the Indian Law Society, Pune, India https://cmhlp.org/

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