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We bring lived experience perspectives to the public and stakeholders
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Our Involvement in Publications
GMHPN contributed to the Mental health, human rights and legislation: guidance and practiceGMHPN were involved in the consultation process of developing the WHO guidance for Mental Health, Human Rights and Legislation.
The guidance proposes new objectives for law, including setting a clear mandate for mental health systems to adopt a rights-based approach. It outlines legal provisions required to promote deinstitutionalization and access to good quality, person-centred community mental health services. It highlights how laws can address stigma and discrimination and provides concrete measures on how to eliminate coercion in mental health services in favour of practices that respect people’s rights and dignity. |
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The Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental HealthThe new Lancet Commission on Ending Stigma and Discrimination in Mental Health is the result of work by over 50 contributors from across the world, notably including people with lived experience of a mental health condition. Containing testimonies and poems from people with lived experience, the Commission reviews the evidence on effective interventions to reduce stigma and calls for immediate action from governments, international organisations, employers, healthcare provider and media organisations, along with active contributions from people with lived experience, to work together to eliminate mental health stigma and discrimination.
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GMHPN contributed to the WHO World Mental Health Report 2022The World mental health report: transforming mental health for all is designed to inspire and inform better mental health for everyone everywhere. Drawing on the latest evidence available, showcasing examples of good practice from around the world, and voicing people’s lived experience, it highlights why and where change is most needed and how it can best be achieved. It calls on all stakeholders to work together to deepen the value and commitment given to mental health, reshape the environments that influence mental health, and strengthen the systems that care for mental health.
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Book: Mental Health, Legal Capacity and Human RightsOur Founder/CEO, Charlene Sunkel (also co-editor with Prof Vikram Patel, Prof Michael Stein, and Dr Faraaz Mohamed) and four of our Executive Team members, Andrew Turtle, Syd Gravel, Iregi Mwenja and Marie Abanga contributed a chapter on "Lived Experience Perspectives from Australia, Canada, Kenya, Cameroon and South Africa – Conceptualising the Realities"
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The lived experience of depression: a bottom-up review co-written by experts by experience and academics
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Members of GMHPN co-authored this paper published in the World Psychiatry, that provides the first bottom-up review of the lived experience of depression, where first-person accounts within and outside the medical field were screened and discussed in collaborative workshops involving numerous individuals with lived experience of depression, family members and carers, representing a global network of organizations.
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Annual Reports
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Special Reports
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Lived Experience Engagement: What is our value?
The purpose of this report is to inform funders, donors and relevant stakeholders of the experiences faced by lived experience and/or peer-led organisations in:
a) seeking and securing funding towards their work and b) to advise them on how they could better support lived experience initiatives. In spite of the growing inclusion of lived experience into engagement and high-level meetings to guide positive change, the concern now is the element of non-remuneration for work done. The objective of sharing the insights in this report is not only to encourage more support for lived experience/ peer-led organisations and those working with people with lived experience, but also start a meaningful conversation on this matter.
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GMHPN Policies, Procedures and Guidelines
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Position Statements
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Infographics & Fact Sheets
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This fact sheet explores suicide and its prevention, with insight from existing research and perspectives of the Global Mental Health Peer Network (GMHPN) on the facts, myths, risk and protective factors and warning signs of suicide, as well as suicide prevention, supporting someone at risk, and the response of the World Health Organization (WHO) and the GMHPN.
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