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JOIN US as we mark 31 days of continuous People’s Protest, at Kohuwela junction on Thurs March 31st!💪🏾
It’s heartening to see so many people’s protests not affiliated to political parties over the weekend! It’s time the people realised their power!
#takebackourpower✊🏾 #lka
It’s heartening to see so many people’s protests not affiliated to political parties over the weekend! It’s time the people realised their power!
#takebackourpower✊🏾 #lka
NEW PAPER ALERT📢
A favorite paper of my career! ➡️ rb.gy/1scuc5 Mothers who participated in a prenatal #mindfulness intervention had babies with healthier #stress responses, suggesting psychosocial #pregnancy #intervention can positively shape infant #health! 🧵 1/
A favorite paper of my career! ➡️ rb.gy/1scuc5 Mothers who participated in a prenatal #mindfulness intervention had babies with healthier #stress responses, suggesting psychosocial #pregnancy #intervention can positively shape infant #health! 🧵 1/
Check out the @UCSF web story on the paper here, written by the wonderful @BertholdJess: 2/ ucsf.edu/news/2022/03/4…
BACKGROUND
This study followed prior work by @Dr_Epel, me & team, which showed the #prenatal #intervention: reduced women’s stress & depression, increased physical activity, lowered diabetes risk. Here, we tested whether these health benefits extended to the developing child. 3/
This study followed prior work by @Dr_Epel, me & team, which showed the #prenatal #intervention: reduced women’s stress & depression, increased physical activity, lowered diabetes risk. Here, we tested whether these health benefits extended to the developing child. 3/
I wanted to share some comments by #parents whose children have #pancreatitis. As I have shared before, the #pain care for these kids is NOT adequate. Their #pain is often not being addressed. I have asked parents to start writing up their stories to share. When #pain is not 1/
addressed it causes trauma, not only for the child/youth but parents. We know unaddressed #pain can lead to #chronicpain. I absolutely believe in #biopyschosocial approach but what we are seeing is a #psychosocial approach being utilized and #bio aspect missing. This leaves 2/
#parents and #patients feeling angry & abandoned. One of the reasons I started getting involved in #advocacy is that my kids #pain was dismissed, they were labeled. This leads to #trauma, #chronicpain & distrust of #physician. What HCP need to understand is that when this is 3/
Fascinating @JAMANetworkOpen article on #schizophrenia treatments .. limits of #pharmacotherapy and benefits of added #psychosocial treatments. Here’s a snippet with eye towards how this relates to treating other mental health conditions. 1/4 @division_55
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“Among responders (to meds), some are able to function independently, others remain disabled despite control of their psychotic symptoms...residual disability attributed to negative symptoms and cognitive deficits, which are less responsive than psychosis to drug treatments.” 2/4
“persistence of disability and ↘️ quality of life, poor medication adherence necessitated delivery of evidence-based psychosocial services, including CBT; family psychoeducation; social skills training; assertive community treatment; and assistance w/work, education, housing” 3/4
Bringing Human Rights to Mental Health Care: An Interview with @UNHumanRights Envvoy Dainius Pūras
#UnitedNations Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras discusses his own journey as a #psychiatrist and the future of #rightsbased approaches to #mentalhealth.
madinamerica.com/2020/05/bringi…
#UnitedNations Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras discusses his own journey as a #psychiatrist and the future of #rightsbased approaches to #mentalhealth.
madinamerica.com/2020/05/bringi…
The families and children I met were actually my real teachers. They were teaching me about ethical #psychiatry. They were teaching me that if you take #humanrights out of psychiatry, then it becomes dangerous and toxic.
It’s not black and white. It’s not about denouncing the medical model, but we’ve identified huge asymmetries and power imbalances in the field. #Mentalhealth care has gone wrong for several reasons but drugs were announced as if they were more effective than other interventions.
