The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health (2021-6-10)

The WHO Calls for Radical Change in Global Mental Health

During the past decade, the World Health Organization (WHO) 

has regularly promoted the goal of improving “global mental health.”

While it has often told of the importance of social support and other non-drug alternatives,

its efforts helped spread a biomedical standard of care. 

Western ideas regarding diagnoses, the biological underpinnings of psychiatric disorders, and the regular use of psychiatric drugs have been promoted. 

Critics of this effort speak of it as a medical colonization.

Today, June 10, the World Health Organization released a 300-page document titled “Guidance on Community Mental Health Services: Promoting Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches.” 

To a large degree, the authors embrace an agenda for change—and a reconception of mental health—

that readers of Mad in America will find familiar.

The best- practice services highlighted in the document include 

Open Dialogue as practiced in Tornio, Finland; 

Soteria Berne in Switzerland;

Afiya House in Western Massachusetts; 

Basal Exposure Therapy in Norway; 

and Hearing Voices Support Groups, among others.

文章引自 : https://www.madintheuk.com/2021/06/the-who-calls-for-radical-change-in-global-mental-health/

Guidance on Community Mental Health Services: Promoting Person-Centred and Rights-Based Approaches

https://www.madinamerica.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/06/9789240025707-eng.pdf

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