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Sep 21, 2021 · This updated Comprehensive Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2030 builds upon its predecessor and sets out clear actions for Member States, the WHO Secretariat and international, regional and national partners to promote mental health and well-being for all.
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In a short span of time, the pandemic has increased our awareness of the vulnerability of our mental health. Sitting squarely at the intersection of our physical health and external circumstances, we’ve seen how quickly our moods and behaviors can be impacted by circumstances and challenges, and we’ve also realized just how strong and resilient our minds can be.
But perhaps most importantly, we are now witnessing a shift in our thinking about mental health. Concerns around mental health and its treatment are finally taking more of a front seat in the mainstream of society.
These considerations put us in a better position, moving forward, to understand ourselves and the experiences we share, as well as the exciting leaps being made in research and treatments.
The field of mental health care is ever-evolving, which might leave us wondering where we’re headed next. As we step forward into a world of less stigma, more understanding, and fewer barriers to care, we ask: what could the future of mental health care look like?
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Hosted by Amy Morin, LCSW, this episode of The Verywell Mind Podcast, featuring singer/songwriter, actress, and author Jewel and Noah Robinson, shares information about their work on creating Innerworld—a metaverse and avatar-based mental health platform. Click below to listen now.
Almost overnight, pandemic restrictions forced most daily operations online, and therapy was no different. Countless individuals adjusted to attending appointments remotely, while still more decided to seek help for the first time.
Therapy offered electronically not only increased accessibility in some circumstances, it has also been proven to be just as effective as in-person treatment. And it could be here to stay.
“People aren’t returning to the couch,” says Priya Singhvi, LPC. “COVID-19 dramatically affected the practice of talk therapy by incorporating wide scale adoption of technology. Many clinicians have made the choice to continue treating people remotely. Now that telehealth has taken off, there’s no going back.”
Singhvi serves as lead therapist and director of clinical operations at Rey, a virtual reality-enabled mental health platform that focuses on phobias, social anxiety, and PTSD. With this form of treatment, patients do wear VR headsets, but that doesn’t mean their therapist looks like their favorite Marvel character or they’re chatting from a Louis XIV chaise at Versailles.
One major part of anyone’s daily health routine is the food they consume, and while it’s common to adjust your diet in the interest of your physical health, the impact of our eating habits on our mental health is often overlooked. The budding field of nutritional psychology aims to change that.
There is lots of scientific evidence to support a strong connection between the gut and the brain. In this cyclical relationship, each can affect the other, so it’s not difficult to conclude that what you put in your stomach can impact your mood, behavior and mental health.
We can’t talk about nontraditional modes of therapy—or advancements in mental health treatment—without discussing psychedelic drugs.
Psychedelics have been a hot topic in mental health research for some time, and more recent studies have yielded some promising results: Patients with major depressive disorder have seen symptoms improve with the help of psilocybin and there is some research to support MDMA-assisted therapy as safe and effective in treating severe, chronic PTSD. Evidence also points to the potential for psychedelics to help treat conditions like disordered eating and obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD).
But due to the stigmatization of psychedelic compounds over the course of the last century, many people remain wary of the mind-altering experience these drugs can induce. As a result, there has been a push for developing a treatment that offers the same benefits of a psychedelic drug without being, well, psychedelic.
This would be a big mistake, says Brian Pilecki, PhD, a licensed clinical psychologist at Portland Psychotherapy in Portland, Oregon. Pilecki says that the separation of the drug’s biological and psychological components goes against both traditional and contemporary scientific consensus that a change in consciousness is fundamental to the therapeutic process. “What we know about psychedelics from clinical research suggests that the subjective experience, including shifts in perception and consciousness, are an important element to the therapeutic outcomes that we are seeing,” Pilecki says.
While there is no known cure for Alzheimer’s disease, neuroscientists and researchers work tirelessly to advance our understanding of the disease and develop an effective treatment. One area of this research is light therapy.
Amyloid plaques that build up in the brain at abnormal levels are associated with Alzheimer’s disease. Networks of cells in the brain have been noted to oscillate in unison in the presence of the right kind of stimuli. There has been some speculation that gamma waves boost the activity of the cells in the brain that clear these amyloid plaques.
Research has shown that exposure to lights and sounds in the gamma frequency of around 40 Hz induces these oscillations in the brain. The method is being studied both as a treatment for and preventive measure against Alzheimer’s disease.
Neurobiologist Veronica Price, co-founder and chief knowledge officer at BRIGHT, notes that neuroscientists at leading brain research institutes are focusing their efforts in this area of research.
Price says this is “a new direction for research into treatments for [neurodegenerative disorders],” but requires further research to determine true efficacy.
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We’re witnessing a collective shift toward not only prioritizing mental health in our daily lives but laying stronger foundations for healthy mental health systems. Some organizations are actually taking the time to understand and address the roots of the issues.
One of these issues is a leading cause of death in the United States.
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) has a plan to significantly reduce the country’s suicide rate. Project2025, an ongoing nationwide initiative to reduce the rate of suicide by 20% in the next four years. The AFSP is focusing their interventions within health care systems, emergency departments, correctional institutions and firearm communities in order to educate and improve screening and preventive measures in the hope of saving lives.
With similar goals in mind, the Federal Communications Commission in a joint effort with the Department of Health and Human Services' Substance and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA) and the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs in July of 2022 launched a new nationwide three-digit hotline. This number, 988, is a simpler alternative to the previous suicide prevention hotline number, 1-800-273-TALK.
May 17, 2023 · We remain committed to our ambitious plans to expand and transform NHS mental health services to reach an additional 2 million people, backed by £2.3 billion more in real terms per year by...
The NHS Long Term Plan (LTP) makes a renewed commitment that mental health services will grow faster than the overall NHS budget with a ringfenced investment worth at least £2.3 billion a year for mental health services by 2023/24. Children and young people’s mental health services
