GMH Track/Trek

Tracking and Trekking with GMH

Kelly and Michele O’Donnell, GMH-Map

--See the article GMH: Tracking and Trekking Across Sectors

(organized into Context Resources and Core Resources)

Short version--Psychology International (June 2015, pp. 16-19)

Full version--Click here (10 pages)

Powerpoint--Click here (50 slides)

--Seethe Global Integration Framework below--Global Context Resources and GMH Core Resources:

Global Mental Health: Sharing and Synthesizing Knowledge for Sustainable Development

Global Mental Health (September 2016)

Global mental health (GMH) continues to develop and expand around the world. The materials listed below (eight categories) are organised to help you “track” with GMH (staying current with materials) and “trek” with GMH (collaborating together with colleagues). Collectively, they reflect how GMH is being both shaped/supported and debated/developed in the effort to promote quality mental health care for all people, human wellbeing, and sustainable development. The newest category of materials on the GMH-Map website is featured below—the eighth category, “GMH gatherings” with an emphasis on training.

**GMH newsletters (free online and usually archived on organisations’ websites)

**GMH websites (click here)

**GMH edited books and special journal issues (click here)

**GMH training programmes (masters degrees, certificates)

**GMH orientation/overview materials (core articles and the WHO MH Action Plan)

**GMH criticisms (see point four in the Perspectives section of this site; e.g., GMH and its Discontents (2012), Decolonising GMH, (2014), etc.)

**GMH areas TBD:

Here are a few of the many categories of resources within the GMH domain that can be further organized. Many items could also be helpfully organized by region and language. Note that an extensive listing of GMH materials was published in the July 2012 issue of International Perspectives in Psychology: Research, Practice, Consultation (click here to access the article--Global Mental Health: A Resource Primer for Exploring the Domain).

• Affiliations and Partnerships (e.g., principles for working together GMH-Map)
• Advocacy and Rights (e.g., QualityRights project and toolkit, WHO 2012)
• Alcohol and Substance Abuse (e.g., substance abuse information/resources)
• Gender and Mental Health (e.g., research summaries)
• Humanitarian Applications (e.g., settings and staff)
• Policy: International and National (e.g., WHO Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020)
• Practice Guidelines and Services (e.g., GMH case studies, PLOS Medicine)
• Research and Training Centers/Programs (e.g., NIMH USA, WHO)
• Videos and Films (e.g., Breaking the Chains, Hidden Pictures, Like a Death Sentence)

--GMH core materials in various languages

--GMH collaborating centres and communities/networks

--GMH practice guidelines (WHO publications, etc.)

--GMH-related films, videos, TEDTalks (e.g., Hidden Pictures, WHO MH Media Centre)

--Open source GMH-related training

--Etc.

**Examples of GMH gatherings (conferences/events): 2013-2015

Here is a list of many of the GMH-related gatherings from 2013-current. These gatherings have helped colleagues share research activities and resources, discuss issues together, as well as form closer relationships (the latter though may not necessarily happen unless interactive and social times are intentionally built into conference programs). Many of the presentations and other materials from these gatherings are available online. Hence even though one is not able to attend, it is still possible to “participate” and benefit via the materials that are available (e.g., powerpoints/videos of the presentations, papers, and summary reports).

One suggestion for making the most of these gatherings is to meet together with colleagues in your area periodically to review and discuss some of the materials. Examples would be reading the summary report and then watching a few of the videos/powerpoints such as from the 2013 Third MGMH Summit, the Gulbenkian Foundation’s 2013 Innovations in GMH Forum, the Centre for GMH’s 2013 GMH Forum, or the 2014 NIMN/Grand Challenges Canada’s Solving the Grand Challenges in GMH Workshop. Going one step further: why not set up an informal “net-hub” in your area/setting in order meet periodically for mutual learning and support, and thus further developing GMH. For a few thoughts on GMH nets/hubs, click here.

There are many other gatherings that overlap with and include GMH topics that could be added to the list below, including for example at the international presentations at the annual Convention of the American Psychological Association and at other psychology-related gatherings around the world (see the list at: http://www.apa.org/international/resources/events.aspx). It would also be helpful to list other major gatherings/events prior to 2013, including links to presentations/materials, starting perhaps with the launch of the mhGAP Programme in 2008.

• March 2013: The World in Denial? GMH Matters—Royal Society o Medicine, London
• May 2013: Advances in GMH Research and Research Capacity Building, NIMH USA, Rockville, MD
• May 2013: Cultural Psychiatry and GMH, Free University, The Netherlands
• August 2013: Third Summit (power points/summary) (click here for videos)—Movement for Global Mental Health, Thailand
• September 2013: GMH Forum, Sustainable Development though Global Action: The Case for Investing in MH, Centre for GMH, London (includes powerpoints/pdf of conference presentations)
• October 2013: International Forum on Innovation in GMH, Gulbenkian Platform, Lisbon (includes videos and power points of presentations)
• October 2013: mhGAP Forum, WHO, Geneva--launch of the Mental Health Action Plan 2013-2020
• October 2013: World Mental Health Day—Mental Health and Older Adults, World Federation for Mental Health (also includes materials and event reports from previous years)
• October 2013: Hidden Pictures film, screening live and online internationally
• December 2013: WHO MH, Geneva, launch of MINDbank website
• June 2014: Solving the Grand Challenges in GMH, NIMH USA and /Grand Challenges Canada, Rockville, MD, (for power points and notes contact the NIMH Office for Research on Disparities and Global Mental Health)
• September 2014: mhGAP Forum and Launch of World Suicide Report. WHO, Geneva (click here for the Forum Report and click here for the two animated videos on depression: I Had A Black Dog and Living with a Black Dog
• October 2014: World Mental Health Day—Living with Schizophrenia
• February 2015: World Innovation Summit for Health (WISH), Qatar--Mental Health and Wellbeing in Children (panel discussion, video). Note too that the WISH December 2013 event included a strong emphasis on Mental Health with a focus on innovations (panel discussion, video)
• April 2015: Culture and GMH Conference, Society for the Study of Psychiatry and Culture. Providence, Rhode Island, USA
• April 2015: Mental Health for All: Connecting People and Sharing Experience. World Federation for Mental Health. Lille, France
• 30 April 2015: UN Psychology Day: Reducing Health Inequalities Within and Among Countries: Psychology's Contributions to the United Nation's Post-2015 Global Agenda. (now in its eighth year)
• 26 June 2015: Crossing Boundaries: Meeting the Needs of Refugee Communities Around the Globe, William James College (formerly Massachusetts School of Professional Psychology) Newton, Massachusetts USA. Organized by the GMH Program
• 1-3 August 2015: Psychological Contributions to Solving Global Problems in the 21^st Century (74^th Convention), International Council of Psychologists, Toronto, Canada
• 8-9 October, 2015: mhGAP Forum, WHO Geneva—Mental Health Innovations and Their Uptake into Policy and Practice
• 10 October 2015: World Mental Health Day--Mental Health and Dignity
• October 2015: XXth World Congress of the World Federation for Mental Health, Cairo, Egypt
• October-November 2015: Global Challenges and Cultural Psychiatry—Natural Disasters, Conflicts, Insecurity, Migration, and Spirituality; World Association of Cultural Psychiatry, Puerto Vallarta, Mexico