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~World Mental Health Day Report 1998~
Saint Lucia Radio St. Lucia broadcast a discussion of mental health issues by a panel featuring a psychiatrist, a service user and a human rights activist. Information was also made available to the public through a mental health exhibition.
TRANSCULTURAL MENTAL HEALTH RESOURCES AND INFORMATION
Multicultural Mental Health Australia (MMHA) has released a number of new mental health resources with a couple of leading agencies. MMHA launched its “What Is…” series of mental health fact sheets in over 20 languages at the recent Diversity In Health Conference in Sydney. The 10 topics cover issues surrounding mental illness, anxiety, bipolar…
News from the Regions
Mexico, Central America and Caribbean SAPTEL The WFMH Regional Council for Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean has announced an important expansion of its main program, the mental health telephone counselling service SAPTEL (Sistema Nacional de Apoyo Psicologico por Telefono). This service was started in the Mexico City metropolitan area on 12 October 1992, to…
Best Online Types of Therapy and Services
Online therapy, or teletherapy, works much like in-person treatment, except that visits are conducted via video, call, or text. You’ll find many of the same options online that you’d find in an office—providers who offer individual therapy and relationship counseling, generalists or specialists, and a variety of therapy techniques. Yet, with so many options, finding…
News from the Regions
Oceania The Mariana Islands The Newsletter recently received a note from Laura L. Post, M.D., describing mental health services in the Northern Mariana Islands, a U.S. overseas possession of 14 Pacific islands. Dr. Post was until recently chair of the Department of Psychiatry at the hospital in Saipan and also Medical Director of the Division…
News From the Region
Eastern Mediterranean Prevention of Substance Abuse In June WFMHs Eastern Mediterranean Regional Council (EMRC) joined with the Arab Federation for NGOs for the Prevention of Substance Abuse to organize a regional conference on substance abuse. (The Arab Federation was founded in 1996 by an initiative of the WFMH Committee to Combat Substance Abuse and the…