paul Thursday, 3rd November 2022 14.00 – 16.00 BST Click here to book your place There is a need to build trusting relationships between services users, families and practitioners. This is important because knowing the person as a person, not just as someone with a mental illness is critical to improve the outcomes for service users … Read more
The purpose of the working group is to bring togheter partners and experiences developed in Europe around the issue of the improvement of quality of care in institutions, in a view of fulfilling human rights, citizenship and moving towards the phasing out of asylums and the development of comprehensive community based services. The social exclusion … Read more
Roberto Mezzina provides the context and need for the conference and the main themes that will be explored on the day. More information about the conference programme and to book your place go here On the occasion of the World Mental Health Day (October 10th) , Trieste hosts a meeting organized by the AASM (Asociaiòn Argentina … Read more
Conference: World Mental Health Day Read Roberto Mezzina’s article about the context for the conference here Date: October 10th Modality Hybrid: in person and virtual. Place From the Hotel Palace Suite in Trieste, Italy (streamed live for a global audience) Simultaneous interpretation English Spanish Italian Book your place here IMPORTANT: Those who attend in person and wish to … Read more
The Challenge and Opportunity for Society, Communities and Psychiatric Hospitals to Improve Community Mental Health Services Clarissa Corradi-Webster (Brazil), Rossana Maria Seabra Sade (Brazil), Jan Pfeifer (Czechia), John Jenkins (UK) Friday, 7 October 2022, 14:00 – 16:00 BST Click here to book you place This webinar will outline the importance of changing the culture inside the … Read more
with Fabio Musco, Michele Sipala, Thais Thome S. Oliveira & Paul Baker, Wednesday, July 6th 14.00 BST For more information about how to attend this event go to Eventbrite About This Workshop: This webinar will consider the ways in which the needs of people with severe and enduring needs can be supported through the creation … Read more
World Mental Health Report: Transforming Mental Health for All. You are kindly invited to attend its virtual launch, which will take place on Friday 17 June, from 14.00 to 15:30 (CEST). The event will include a presentation of the report, as well as speeches from the WHO Director-General, among others. The report will be an essential reading … Read more
We know there is lot of interest in the experience of Trieste and this was a rare opportunity to hear directly from four of the most important managers and clinicians who led the internationally significant deinstitionalisation processes in Trieste, Italy, through the closure of a large psychiatric hospital and the development of local Community Mental … Read more
This article addresses the need for fundamental change by focusing on social determinants and achieving equity in mental health care in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic Published in Frontiers in Psychiatry: Social Psychiatry and Psychiatric Rehabilitation30 May 2022 Roberto Mezzina1*, Vandana Gopikumar2,3, John Jenkins4, Benedetto Saraceno5 and S. P. Sashidharan6 1World Federation for Mental Health, … Read more
A recording of the Transforming Mental Health Services Workshop with Paul Baker and John Jenkins is now up for available via the OnlineEvents library. Go here for more information and how to order your copy. Over many years in developing community mental health services to replace the institutional system in the UK and a few other countries, … Read more