Workshop Program in Pakistan to Treat Traumatized Children Professor Syed Arshad Husain, Chair of the WFMH Committee on the Commercial Sexual Exploitation of Children and head of the International Centre for Psychosocial Trauma at the University of Missouri, USA, is extending his work to provide training to support traumatized children. He has made more than…

Finding the best online therapy isn’t easy with so many options to choose from. We’ve reviewed the best online counseling services that offer virtual therapy sessions by phone, chat or video. Each of the top virtual counseling services below was evaluated based on therapist credentials, user reviews, price per session, features, and mental health services…

Profound inequities in access to mental health care persist globally, shaped by socioeconomic status, geography, gender, ethnicity, and disability. The World Federation for Mental Health has placed equity at the centre of the global mental health agenda, maintaining that structural determinants of mental health must be addressed with the same urgency as clinical and service…

United Nations UN New York The NGO Committee on Mental Health presented a program on 13 December 2001 to mark the UN Human Rights Day and the Ten Year Anniversary of UN Resolution 46/119 – “The Protection of Persons with Mental Illness and the Improvement of Mental Health Care.” The panel was organized and chaired…

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Canadian Province Creates High-Level Post for Mental Health Gulzar Cheema, M.D. In early September Tarja Heiskanen, project manager at the Finnish Mental Health Association, interviewed British Columbia’s Minister of State for Mental Health on behalf of WFMH. Gulzar Cheema was appointed to this newly created position on 5 June 2001. Before his election to the…