Mental Health

Violence and abuse are associated with a range of negative outcomes including poor mental health (Golding 1999; McManus et al.,...

Communication, whether public or private, plays a significant role in contributing to stigma (Escandon, 2024). In particular, the media and...

Classification systems like the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) identify psychiatric disorders when individuals manifest a certain...

When the term childhood trauma is mentioned, your mind may first turn to physical or sexual abuse. However, another form...

Conversion practices (CPs) through formal and structured means, attempt to suppress, change or subvert a person’s sense of their sexual...

We are learning more and more about how essential sleep is to both physical and mental health. However, there is...

Violence against women is a major human rights violation that affects one in three women worldwide and has profound and...

WARNING: This content discusses sensitive topics related to hospital surveillance, patient harm, inappropriate advances by staff, and staff injuries. It may...

As we navigate a period of rapid social and economic change amplified by COVID-19, the social contributors to depression are...

It’s now over three decades since William A. Anthony’s seminal paper (Anthony, 1993) helped redefine our understanding of mental illness...