Celebrate Mental Health Awareness Month with Unchain
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May is Mental Health Awareness Month--a time to celebrate the strides made in mental health care around the globe, and to recommit ourselves to all the work that remains towards ensuring mental health care for all. In honor of Mental Health Awareness Month, we're listening back to Unchain, our podcast miniseries about the transformation of the oldest psychiatric hospital in sub Saharan Africa: Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital. Tune in each Saturday to hear from staff, patients, and historians of this remarkable hospital--and get ready for a new episode on May 29 covering recent updates from the hospital.
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Published 05/29/21
What is the path forward from Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital--especially in the face of persistent stigma against mental health conditions? For a growing number of patients, the step after leaving inpatient care is to become a community health worker (CHW), providing support to those...
Published 05/29/21
How can we fight deeply-engrained stigma around mental health—not just in Sierra Leone, but around the world? We speak with mental health nurse Julianna Showers and psychiatrist Dr. Abdul Jalloh to learn how Sierra Leone Psychiatric Teaching Hospital staff are working to promote awareness and...
Published 11/25/20