Tagged by "mental-health"

In 'Voices'

  • A statement by Mariwala Health Initiative

    The loss of thousands of lives, including children, in Gaza is a collective failure of humanity.Read More

  • The Intersection of Climate Justice and Mental Health for Queer-Trans Persons

    Climate change presents one of the greatest challenges of our time. It directly and indirectly af...Read More

  • Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) In-Person Course Bangalore, May 2023

    Mariwala Health Initiative (MHI) started the Queer-Affirmative Counselling Practice (QACP) Course...Read More

  • Working for Disabled People’s Organisation of Bhutan

    Impact of Climate Change on PwDs. This piece is in the Dzongkha language of Bhutan.Read More

  • सामूहिक आघात से साझे संघर्ष तक पश्चिमी हिमालय में स्थित हिमाचल के किन्नौर ज़िले में युवाओं का अस्तित्व के लिए संघर्ष

    हिमाचल के उच्च हिमालयी क्षेत्र में स्थित किन्नौर जन जातीय ज़िला पिछले कुछ वर्षों में आपदाओं का घर बन गया...Read More

  • Demystifying Suicide Prevention

    A special series in association with Sanity by Tanmoy dedicated to suicide prevention, which will...Read More

  • Rationing – The Legitimacy Problem in Mental Healthcare: Reflections from Kashmir

    The rationing of mental healthcare is an outcome of both, the theory of healthcare rationing, and...Read More

  • All the Better to Suffer the Status Quo with, My Dear

    Socio-emotional learning (SEL): mental healthcare, or behaviour modification programmes?Read More

  • 6-Day Course on Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice

    QACP has received an overwhelming response in the last two years and 200+ MHPs have been trained ...Read More

  • Exercising accountability as a funder

    As a funding agency, MHI had to respond urgently and with responsibility to the unprecedented COV...Read More

  • The Neoliberal Project: Mental Health & Marginality in India

    Neoliberalism has aided in the dubious re-organization of the subjective, psychological selfRead More

  • Clinical Legacies and Counter-Narratives

    The fields of knowledge associated with mental health have come under scrutiny for human rights ...Read More

  • Therapy as a Tool in Dismantling Oppression

    Working with the political in the personal in clinical practice Can therapy align with activism ...Read More

  • Resilient Practices for Mental Health in Rural and Urban Uttarakhand

    Building on community resources in crisis and disaster This article outlines key practices for s...Read More

  • Queer Possibilities

    The changing landscape of therapeutic practice with queer clientsRead More

  • ‘I Get You’

    Strengthening Peer Counseling within the Queer CommunityRead More

  • Relocating Mental Health Conversations to Native Queer Subcultures in India

    The Hijra community as a site and source of care This article attempts a culture-sensitive conv...Read More

  • An Approach to Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)

    A mental health intervention that moves beyond the clinical paradigmRead More

  • Rebuilding Therapeutic Spaces

    Unlearning old frameworks: Towards a less one-sided practitioner-client relationshipRead More

  • What Kind of Interventions Do We Need Now?

    Poetry and healing: beyond clinical options This is an essay on how it is imperative, especially...Read More

  • Making Your Days Matter, to the Very End

    Supporting journeys through home-based careRead More

  • 'Knife of Insight'

    Experiences of toxic work cultures and the process of recoveryRead More

  • An Invisible Intersection: Mental Healthcare for the Deaf Community

    A realization crucial to building a Deafinclusive society is that living in a nonsigning world ca...Read More

  • Creating Safe Spaces within Legal Settings

    A model for individual, couple and familial counseling for matrimonial litigationRead More

  • Mental Health Helplines

    Potential for subversionRead More

  • Mental Stress: The Toiling Class in Slums

    How customs and traditions, songs and rituals play a roleRead More

  • Seeding Wellbeing in Drought- Prone Regions

    A psychosocial approach to working with distraught farming communitiesRead More

  • Teachers as Agents of Change

    Tealeaf: Mansik Swastha teachers renegotiate traditional roles and relationships as they become d...Read More

  • A Home Away from Home

    Creating a space of care to provide mental health support for children, adolescents and their fam...Read More

  • Responding to COVID as a Mental Health Funding Organization

    Coronavirus is not just a public health issue but also an issue of livelihoods, food, security, ...Read More

  • MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE  |  JULY - SEPT, 2020

    We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

  • We fund initiatives that are user-centered, and employ a human rights-based approach

    At the onset we knew that MHI would employ an intersectional and intersectoral approach to funding.Read More

  • Working with the Government to bolster mental health care services

    MHI signs an MoU for a Technical Support Unit that will support the Government of Bihar in streng...Read More

  • MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | OCT - DEC, 2019

    We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

  • Mental Health & Criminal Law

    A critique of the excessively narrow approach of the law that takes into account only those menta...Read More

  • Safeguarding Client and Counselor

    Ethical dilemmas in psychotherapy in India. Exploring the foundations for ethical practice.Read More

  • The Need for a Rights-Based Lens in Education

    An enquiry into challenging existing pathological representations of LGBTQIA+ lives, and systemic...Read More

  • The Atmiyata Story

    Centering community as a resourceRead More

  • Young Indians Speak About Mental Health

    Insights gained from stories shared online by youth.Read More

  • Interrogating the Cut + Paste of ‘Recovery’

    This article challenges received wisdom on existing concepts of ‘recovery’ from mental suffering ...Read More

  • Unrecognized and Unaddressed

    Exploring the mental health gap for persons with physical and/or sensory disabilitiesRead More

  • The Invisible Crisis

    Sexism, twin taboos & mental Health oppressionRead More

  • Where Social Justice Meets Mental Health

    A discussion on social justice, collective mental health and the impact of social hierarchies of ...Read More

  • I Walk the Line

    This article examines data from a research study that explored treatment experiences of users, an...Read More

  • MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | JULY - SEPT, 2019

    We're a funding agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particular focus on makin...Read More

  • ReFrame: Editor's Note

    An Editor's Note on ReFrame, a journal by the Mariwala Health Initiative that challenges existing...Read More

  • Pathways to Mental Health

    Challenging the existing discourse around the ‘treatment gap’ that invisibilises the psycho-socia...Read More

  • Enhancing Livelihoods

    Fostering social inclusion through setting up robust social, economic and livelihoods support sys...Read More

  • The ideal of ‘Recovery’

    A critique of the conventional approach to  ‘care’ views persons with mental health that diagnose...Read More

  • Queering Mental Health Practice

    QACP interrogates and counters dominant approaches to sexuality in the mental health sector. It i...Read More

  • Does every Citizen have the Right to Vote?

    On voting as an issue of development, social justice, and human rights—an instrument by which we ...Read More

  • Peer Support Practice

    Peer support is based on support due to similar lived experiences. MHI recently launched a module...Read More

  • Fostering Resilience in the Wake of Disasters

    Despite evidence of the impact that disasters have on mental health, disaster response approaches...Read More

  • Mental Health Care Reaches Remote Villages in Yamuna Valley

    MHI partner Burans recently celebrated the launch of yet another community mental health program ...Read More

  • Grief Counselling for Pet Parents

    Many cultures do not recognise the connection between pets and their caregivers and how devastati...Read More

  • MHI's Quarterly Newsletter

    Read about our latest partners, innovative projects we've been funding and upcoming events throug...Read More

  • ReFrame 2019: Call for Submissions

    ReFrame, a journal by the Mariwala Health Initiative is a platform to challenge existing norms an...Read More

  • Professional Solidarity : What Queer Affirmative Counselling Practice Means To Me As A Mental Health Practitioner

    I’m a 25-year-old therapist with a background in Clinical Psychology. I have had roughly about 3 ...Read More

  • Bridge the Care Gap Campaign

    Despite the high incidence of mental health problems, the focus of the State has been centered on...Read More

  • Articulating Sexuality from the Margins

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