Resources
This section includes information about publications and websites that may be of interest to those leading frontline development of community mental health services in different countries.
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May 24th, 2007 at 7:58 am
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March 29th, 2010 at 6:09 pm
I have provided a link to my web resource ‘MentalWakeup’, which is a Global Knowledge and Learning Portal for Mental Health. Its aim is to promote and emphasise the necessity for multi-modal/multi-disciplinary diagnosis/treatment and early interventionist approach for Mental Health. I developed it and do not make any money from it after seeing strong need for a wider big picture view of mental health being made available, after many years as a prior carer/advocate in mental health. No one else is associated with it. Its completed and I will be moving in to others areas in my future work.
I have used concept maps as a means to present complex issues in a simpler manner, backed up with clinical and other journal references and links to many other web sites. There is also a plethora of links to web learning resources, for consumers, families and clinicians. The site is not designed to ’spoon feed’ people information, it is designed for people to inquire and explore and use the semantic information to construct their own knowledge, views and conclusions about mental health.
I have a strong interest in knowledge management and the learning sciences, where I am currently doing a Masters degree in that area.
What the GFCMH is doing I feel is a major step forward - people learn best through social collaboration and mental health systems have a strong history of not being able to learn very well as their practices disconnect consumers from families, families from the system, consumers from the system and consumers from the mainstream community. My understanding that this is less so in some developing countries where WHO has clearly found evidence to show strong social collaboration provides better and far more cost effective mental health outcomes. Only when there is strong social collaboration between all stakeholders will there be strong learning which in turn will accelerate the right improvements in the system to bring major improvements in mental health care outcomes. I dont believe that money and resources are the core problems at the moment.