The field of Mental Health is in need of drastic change, but we need a vision to get us there. What would it look like in practice to build a system that truly transformed those it seeks to serve? What does mental health that is rooted in rights based, peer-centered, and holistic care look like?

In this episode you’ll learn:

• why we are in desperate need for a new vision of mental health care
• what transformative mental health is, in theory and practice
• 3 core ingredients for practicing transformative mental health
• what systemic change really looks like
• what survivor led research and practice can do to change the landscape

Links:

• The Institute for the Development of Human Arts
• Healer Mentorship Program - 1:1 four week mentorship for those wanting to start or expand their private practice

Research:

• Definition of Transformative Mental health and IDHA’s history in developing it https://www.idha-nyc.org/about-idha
• IDHA’s founding memebers: https://www.idha-nyc.org/our-team
• Epistemic Injustice in psychiatry : https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5376720/#:~:text=Epistemic injustice is a harm,of one's experiences (interpreting).
• Poverty & mental health : https://www.nature.com/articles/s41599-018-0063-2
• Systemic causes of poverty and inequality in mental health: https://compass.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/abs/10.1111/spc3.12168
• Survivor-led research: https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/09687599.2017.1320270
• From cultural to structural competency: https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2665216 https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapsychiatry/article-abstract/2665217