Resources
ReFrame VI: Global Mental Health From The Margins
With this issue of ReFrame, we bring forward narratives, communities, and knowledge excluded from the Global Mental Health agenda, featuring scholarship from feminists from Turkish, Kenyan and Dalit movements; Mental health professionals from Pale...
2024
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ReFrame V: Mental Health and Climate Justice
A focus on how climate change impacts mental health for marginalised communities
2022
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Mental Health and Wellbeing for Adivasis and Tribals
This report captures the purpose, processes, contributions to the deliberations, and suggestions for future engagements to build the mental health discourse and practice of and for Adivasis and Tribals at and through Mariwala Health Initiative’s I...
2024
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Mental Health Journey: Untold Stories of People from the Northeast of India
"Mental Health Journey: Untold Stories of People from the Northeast of India" is a multilingual anthology of the complex lived realities and mental health experiences of LGBTQ+ persons as well as people living with HIV from the eight northeastern ...
2024
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Reframe 5: Sneak Peek
A sneak peek into MHI's 5th Edition of ReFrame: 'Mental Health and Climate Justice'
2022
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Holding Space - Deconstructing Disability Experiences and Navigating Ableism in Therapeutic Conversations - Part 1
'Holding Space - Deconstructing disability experiences and navigating ableism in therapeutic conversations - Part 1' is the first in a series of self-learning manuals to expand the understanding of mental health practitioners on disability experie...
2021
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Holding Space: Understanding Invisible Disabilities and Intersectionality - Part 2
The experiences of persons with disabilities are not homogenous. Depending on the disability itself, whether the disability is visible or invisible, and depending on the intersections of other marginalisations whether it's caste, religion, gender ...
2024
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Reframe VI: Call for Articles
Call for articles for the sixth edition of ReFrame in 2023. The theme is 'Global Mental Health from the Margins.'
2023
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Suicide Prevention: Changing the Narrative
Centred around building a comprehensive approach to tackling suicide in India, the report covers key approaches to suicide prevention, evidence-based strategies to reduce the incidence of suicide and tangible steps various stakeholders can take.
2021
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Funding During a Disaster : Lessons from the COVID-19 Pandemic in India
This resource provides actionable knowledge on how grant-making and donor organizations can best support partner organizations and other community-based organizations during disasters; in order to reach out to the most marginalized communities in ...
2021
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Reframe V: Call for Articles
Call for articles for the fifth edition of ReFrame in 2022. The theme is 'Mental Health and Climate Justice.'
2022
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Articulating Intimacies from the Margins:An Exploratory Study on Intimacies of Queer Persons in Their Romantic Relationships
This study captures and visibilises intimacies of queer persons in their romantic relationships. The study explores how queer persons define, express and navigate intimacies in a society where the rules of intimacy are heterosexual and cis-gender....
2021
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Building Allyship: The Mental Health Community and LGBTQI+ Rights
This is a report that showcases the queer affirmative mental health work undertaken during a High Court Judgment. The report is a guiding tool for MHPs who want to build allyship and promote LGBTQI+ rights.
2021
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DIYouth Advocacy : A complete guide to mental health advocacy for young people
DIYouth Advocacy is a free resource to empower young people to advocate for your mental health rights. It has been created by a group of young people, mental health experts, advocates, and technologists,
including those who have lived experiences...
2022
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Reframe IV: Unpacking Structural Determinants
MHI's 4th Edition of ReFrame: 'Unpacking Structural Determinants'
2021
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Mental Wellbeing at the Workplace
A toolkit to promote mental health and wellbeing at the workplace.
2021
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ReFrame IV: Call for Articles
Call for articles for the fourth edition of ReFrame in 2021. The theme is 'Unpacking Structural Determinants of Mental Health'.
2021
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ReFrame III: Mental Health beyond Clinical Contexts
MHI's 3rd Edition of ReFrame: 'Mental Health beyond Clinical Contexts'
2020
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‘Nominated Representative’ and Queer Lives
This article in Research Journal of Humanities and Social Sciences explores the possibilities that the Nominated Representative (NR) Clause of the Mental Health Care Act 2017 may have to offer to conceptualise and operationalise what care could lo...
2020
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Mental Health & Well-Being in the Non-Profit Workplace
A toolkit to promote organisational well-being and mental health within the non-profit sector.
2020
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Business as Identity: Mental Health of Entrepreneurs
A research-based study on the mental health of entrepreneurs by Mariwala Health Initiative and ASCENT Foundation.
2020
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Cyberbullying and Mental Health
Cyberbullying mirrors systemic oppression & violence seen offline. It is targeted bullying. It’s important to understand power & discrimination to engage with cyberbullying. Mariwala Health Initiative created a resource on how cyberbullying impact...
2020
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Mental Health During COVID-19: A Resource
A resource guide that discusses the impact of COVID-19 on mental health, lists methods of identifying and dealing with stress and anxiety, and concludes with types of self-care and mindfulness/grounding exercises to enhance mental well-being.
2020
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Psychosocial Well-Being of Displaced Migrant Workers living in Temporary Shelters: A Handbook
This handbook is intended to guide volunteers to better understand and service migrant labourers displaced on account of the nation-wide lockdown and forced to inhabit State/volunteer-run temporary shelters. The handbook attempts to explain the le...
2020
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Reframe II: Bridging the Care Gap
MHI's second edition of Reframe: Bridging the Care Gap
2019
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Entrepreneurial Well-Being: Wearing Many Hats
A study on the mental health and mental well-being of entrepreneurs
2019
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ReFrame: Funding Mental Health
ReFrame aims to encourage multiple, diverse views on mental health & centre critical counter-narratives to any dominant norm related to mental health.
2018
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Turning Pain into Power
A charter, by a national survivor-led organisation Survivors’ Voices, developed through research and consultation with Survivors’ Voices Research Group and others with lived experience of abuse and trauma. The authors are ‘survivor activists’ tryi...
18
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Framing Queer Mental Health: from deviant subjects to knowledge producers
This article traces how mental health of queer persons has evolved within public health discourse and psy disciplines — from the pathologisation of homosexuality, to a vulnerability model, and the more recent sexual minority stress framework. Ketk...
2019
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Thinking Healthy: A manual for psychosocial management of perinatal depression
Women across the globe deserve to enjoy equal health. When they become mothers their health needs should be addressed in all aspects. The Millennium Development Goals have highlighted the importance of maternal and child health and the post-2015 d...
Harm Reduction Guide to Coming Of Psychiatric Drugs
A guide intended to educate people about their options if they decide to explore going off psychiatric medication after long term use.
2012
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Psychological First Aid : Guide for Field Workers
This guide covers psychological first aid which involves humane, supportive and practical help to fellow human beings suffering serious crisis events.
2011
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Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia
Why people sometimes hear voices, believe things that others find strange, or appear out of touch with reality, and what can help.
2014
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Navigating Queer Street: Researching the Intersections of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Identities in Health Research
Research on the intersections of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual and Trans (LGBT) Identities in Health Research
2008
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Gay-Affirmative Counselling Practice Resource and Training Manual
A manual for mental health practioners who work with sexual minority communities.
2013
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Philanthropy In India
A working paper on philanthropy for social justice and peace in India
2017
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The 10/66 dementia research group - 10 years on
Research to study demographics, disability, care arrangements,physical and mental health, and dementia diagnostic criteria in several countries.
2009
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Steps, challenges and lessons in developing community mental health care
Experiences from developing community-orientated mental health services in England and Italy.
2008
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Community champions in rural India: the Atmiyata intervention approach
Promoting wellbeing and improving access to mental health care through a community-based model of mental health care
2017
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Developing models of balanced mental health care: the case of Pakistan
Balanced care calls for promotion of mental health and prevention of mental illnesses.
2002
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Balancing community-based and hospital-based mental health care
Towards a model of intervention that balances both modern community-based and modern hospital-based care.
2002
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Prejudice, Social Stress, and Mental Health in Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Populations: Conceptual Issues and Research Evidence
This article offers a conceptual framework for the higher incidence of mental disorders in Lesbian, Gay and Bisexual persons.
2003
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Economic consequences of neglecting mental health - an Indian perspective
Mental illnesses come with high economic costs, not only for individuals, but families and society at large.
2011
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Human-animal relationships: from daily life to animal-assisted therapies
Animal assisted therapies help in creating well-being and development of social skills in children through human animal interactions and bonding.
2011
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Neglected and Forgotten: Women with Disabilities during the COVID Crisis in India
Rising Flame and Sightsavers' report on the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on women with disabilities in India. The report explores impacts related to accessibility of information, resources, services, as well as the impact on education, liveliho...
2020
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Funding the future of Mental Health
Using in-depth research and interviews with next-gen philanthropists, this report explores why global mental health is severely under-resourced and underfunded? It explores the key barriers faced when it comes to investing in Mental Health.
2021
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