Settling Ulysses: An Adapted Research Agenda for Refugee Mental Health

Settling Ulysses: An Adapted Research Agenda for Refugee Mental Health.

Refugees and asylum seekers arriving in Europe during the 2015/2016 wave of migration have been exposed to war conditions in their country of origin, survived a dangerous journey, and often struggled with negative reception in transit and host countries. The mental health consequence of such forced migration experiences is named the Ulysses syndrome. Policies regarding the right to residency ca...

Positive mental health: a research agenda.

Mobile mental health: a challenging research agenda

The field of mobile health ("m-Health") is evolving rapidly and there is an explosive growth of psychological tools on the market. Exciting high-tech developments may identify symptoms, help individuals manage their own mental health, encourage help seeking, and provide both preventive and therapeutic interventions. This development has the potential to be an efficient cost-effective approach r...

An agenda for quality improvement in forensic mental health consultation.

Recent developments in quality assurance in health care have embraced the total quality management approach to industrial quality control. Setting a goal of "continuous quality improvement" for medical care, this approach features special attention to the process and systems of care provision. Applying this approach to the specialty of forensic mental health consultation yields a variety of pot...

A renewed agenda for global mental health.

4 years ago, The Lancet published a Series of articles highlighting the global health crisis due to an astonishingly large treatment gap: up to nine of ten people with a mental health problem do not receive even basic care in some countries. The Series showed that this gap was not due to insuffi cient evidence about the eff ect of mental health problems or their eff ective treatment, but to a r...

Setting the WHO agenda for mental health

– Disability-adjusted life years (DALYs) provide a useful tool for measuring the burden of mental disorders and the outcome of interventions. According to this measurement, mental disorders are expected to represent 15% of the global burden of disease by 2020. – Other tools are needed to measure other key factors such as the impact of social and economic conditions on mental health, the biologi...