Gulbenkian Global Mental Health Platform

3rd edition of the Lisbon Learning Program on Mental Health Policy and Services - https://mailchi.mp/lisboninstitutegmh/fiqaq4z96h-1078305

The Gulbenkian Global Mental Health Platform has finished its activities, which will be continued by the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health.

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The Gulbenkian Global Mental Health Platform has finished its activities, which will be continued by the Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health.

You may continue to follow our activities here on Facebook Lisbon Institute of Global Mental Health.

We hope to stay in touch!

ENMESH - the European Network for Mental Health Service Evaluation | E-newsletter #3 - https://mailchi.mp/lisboninstitutegmh/fiqaq4z96h-1078245

Lisbon Learning Program on Mental Health Policy and Services

Lisbon Learning Program on Mental Health Policy and Services - https://mailchi.mp/fcm/fiqaq4z96h-1078193

Lisbon Learning Program on Mental Health Policy and Services - https://mailchi.mp/fcm/fiqaq4z96h-1078189

Save the Date | 6 - 8 June 2019 | ENMESH - https://mailchi.mp/fcm/save-the-date-6-8-june-2019-enmesh-1078173

"What this provisional data appears to show is that when isolated people who have health problems are supported by community groups and volunteers, the number of emergency admissions to hospital falls spectacularly. While across the whole of Somerset emergency hospital admissions rose by 29% during the three years of the study, in Frome they fell by 17%."

The town that’s found a potent cure for illness - community | George Monbiot Frome in Somerset has seen hospital admissions fall since it began to tackle isolation. There are lessons for the rest of the country, writes Guardian columnist George Monbiot

“Millennials feel pressure to perfect themselves partly out of social media use that leads them to compare themselves to others,” said Thomas Curran, the study’s lead author and a lecturer in the Center for Motivation and Health Behavior Change at the University of Bath in England. He added that this theory hasn’t been tested and would require further research. “Meritocracy places a strong need for young people to strive, perform and achieve,” he said. They have “increasingly unrealistic educational and professional expectations for themselves.”

More College Students Seem to Be Majoring in Perfectionism New data indicates that perfectionism, especially when influenced by social media, has increased by 33 percent since 1989.

A new study published in JAMA Psychiatry confirmed marked heterogeneity in risk for psychotic disorders by person and place, including higher rates in younger men, racial/ethnic minorities, and areas characterized by a lower percentage of owner-occupied houses.

Substantial Variation in the Treated Incidence of Psychotic Disorders This international multisite incidence study estimates the incidence of psychotic disorders across 17 catchment areas in 6 countries and examines the variance between catchment areas by putative environmental risk factors.