The Mental Healthcare Act, 2017 (MHCA) of India is a landmark and welcome step towards centering persons with mental illness (PwMI) and recognizing their rights concerning their treatment and care decisions and ensuring the availability of mental healthcare services. As mentioned in its preamble,...
Women and gender-diverse individuals have faced disproportionate socioeconomic burden during COVID-19. There have been reports of greater negative mental health changes compared to men based on cross-sectional research that has not accounted for pre-COVID-19 differences. We compared mental health chan...
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Rates of mental illness during incarceration have been found to be higher among women than men. Women are at greater risk of receiving a mental health diagnosis while incarcerated (Al-Rousan et al., 2017; James & Glaze, 2006), and diagnosis describes a wider variety of mental disorders (Al...
Children and young people with care-experience (e.g. foster, kinship and residential care) report poorer mental health and wellbeing than the general popul
The decision in Re AKB was the first opportunity for a judicial interpretation of the provisions governing the review of forensic orders under the Mental Health Act 2000 (Qld) ('the Act'). The decision emphasised that the Act has no preventative detention function and the provisions requiring ...
In 2017, Lindsay and Creswell proposed the Monitor and Acceptance Theory (MAT) of mindfulness, which proposed a unified and testable framework for interpre
This article will address the process of involuntary detention and focus on the differences between the (former) Mental Health Act of Tasmania 1963, and the (current) Mental Health Act of Tasmania 1996 which was not enacted until November 2000. Three to four decades ago a person could be ...
Despite differences in protocol of interventions under study, the results of all articles revealed the effectiveness of interventions in improving infertile women’s mental health; therefore, it is suggested to apply the most common psychological interventions based on scientific evidence (CBT, MBI, and...
One of the main advantages of IT interventions for mental health is the opportunity to act in environments that are not possible, accessible or safe in reality, such as visiting a place from one’s past experience or learning a new skill without the dangers entailed by testing it in the rea...