Categorised by "service-delivery"

Mental Healthcare is Incomplete without the Body

Drawing attention to the most proximal, but overlooked, system in mental healthcare: The bodyRead More

Psychosocial Support for the Riot-Affected: Factoring in Financial Security

A critique of the biomedical model of post-riot counselling services as being reductive, in divor...Read More

Centering survivors’ short-term and long-term needs

Inside the Criminal Justice system: foregrounding survivors and victims of serious crimes.Read More

Addressing Inequalities: Structural Competency and Collective Action in Mental Health

Dismantling systems of powerRead More

MHI QUARTERLY UPDATE | APRIL- JUNE, 2021

We're a grant-making and advocacy agency for innovative mental health initiatives, with a particu...Read More

Changing conversations on mental health

While COVID-19 is considered to be a humanitarian crisis and multiplied the number of conversatio...Read More

Creating innovative programs to strengthen the MH ecosystem

Through the year, we launched initiatives targeting specific groups such as youth, entrepreneurs,...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

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

Therapy as a Tool in Dismantling Oppression

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

Clinical Legacies and Counter-Narratives

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

An Approach to Dance Movement Therapy (DMT)

A mental health intervention that moves beyond the clinical paradigmRead More

Teachers as Agents of Change

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

Seeding Wellbeing in Drought- Prone Regions

A psychosocial approach to working with distraught farming communitiesRead 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

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

Rebuilding Therapeutic Spaces

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

Making Your Days Matter, to the Very End

Supporting journeys through home-based careRead 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

Collaborating with others to bridge the mental health care gap

If we want to influence social change, we must work in tandem with others. At MHI, we support and...Read More

Challenging existing pathological representations of LGBTQIA+ lives & countering historical violence & discrimination, in mental health practice

The edifice of mental health and psychiatry in India has been responsible for pathologizing non-n...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

How our approach has shaped the initiatives that we’ve invested in this year (2019-2020)

At MHI we believe in a psychosocial approach to mental health – that there are critical social de...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

Safeguarding Client and Counselor

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

The Atmiyata Story

Centering community as a resourceRead More

Unrecognized and Unaddressed

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

I Walk the Line

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

The Invisible Crisis

Sexism, twin taboos & mental Health oppressionRead More

Interrogating the Cut + Paste of ‘Recovery’

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

Queering Mental Health Practice

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