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Inequality of Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

This World Mental Health Day (10 October 2023), the theme is Mental Health is a Human Right. We at MQ have been striving for the past 10 years to make mental health a human right in several ways. One such way is by focusing on addressing inequalities that exist in research into mental health.

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A roadmap to prevent people being gone too soon

MQ Mental Health

Now, a new paper published in the Lancet Psychiatry calls for action on a global scale to put an end to the growing mortality rates of people with mental illness and distress. These recommendations are split into three categories: Integration of mental and physical care Solutions Examples 1. WHO EQUIP training programme 4.

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2022 International Women’s Day

MQ Mental Health

The MQ Fellows awards invests in early career researchers, giving them the support and funding they need to expand on their research and develop their careers within mental health science. Of the 350 million people globally to have depression, 75% live in low income countries and 80% do not have access to treatment.

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Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses

Society of Clinical Psychology

Increasingly, there is greater awareness that college students have high levels of clinically significant emotional problems, and despite a broad consensus about the need to clarify the scope of the problem and develop actionable solutions, our understanding of college student mental health remains limited. Auerbach, Ph.D.,

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The Promise of Transdiagnostic Treatments for Anxiety Disorders

Society of Clinical Psychology

David Barlow and Matthew Gallagher discusses a new article in JAMA Psychiatry pertaining to the Unified Protocol for Transdiagnostic Treatment of Emotional Disorders. Significant progress has been made in recent decades in identifying effective psychosocial treatments for anxiety and mood disorders. JAMA psychiatry , 74, 875-884.

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