Mental Health Care Act 17 of 2002doi:Act 17 of 2002
India is revising its mental health legislation with the Indian Mental Healthcare Act 2017 (IMHA). When implemented, this legislation will apply to over 1.25 billion people. In 2005, the World Health Organization (WHO) published a Resource Book (WHO-RB) on mental health, human rights and legi...
A mental health program is a national plan of action that outlines the strategies and resources needed to address mental health issues in a country. It prioritizes community-based care, deinstitutionalization, and collaboration across different sectors. These programs may also focus on specific populat...
Access to mental health care and treatment is emphasized as a fundamental right under the Mental Healthcare Act. The focus of district mental health program (DMHP) under the aegis of National Mental Health program is to provide mental health interventions for all at the community level. Women ...
There is no health without mental health. Recently conducted National Mental Health Survey quoted a prevalence of 13.7% lifetime and 10.6% current mental morbidity. To address this mammoth problem, an aspirational law was enacted titled “Mental Healthcare Act, 2017” (MHCA 201...
"There's been a significant rise in the number of young people suffering from a mental health problem over the last 10 years in the UK, but also around the world," says Dominique Thompson, a general practitioner who is also a young people's mental health expert. "Then along cam...
Check out ADAA's helpful guide to understanding the different therapy options including CBT, DBT, ACT and more Anxiety and Depression Association of America (ADAA) is an international nonprofit membership organization dedicated to the prevention, treatment and cure of anxiety, depression, OCD, PTSD...
[6] high level of caregiver burden is related to low quality of life. Family caregivers’ quality of life can directly impact on the care they provide for the PWD, and how they cope with their own life situation. As dementia is a progressive disease, the family caregiver’s quality of ...
antidepressant drugsthat act to reestablish normal norepinephrine and serotonin levels are often effective for bipolar and major depressive disorders. Treatment often involves the administration of a tricyclic antidepressant (e.g., amitriptyline, amoxapine, orimipramine) or an agent from a class of ...
nursing, and briefly present the Act-Belong-Commit framework for mental health promotion as an example of salutogenesis in nursing practice. You have full access to this open access chapter,Download chapter PDF Similar content being viewed by others...