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America's medicated kids - Louis Theroux TV programme

Louis Theroux spent some time with US families as he tried to understand why so many US children are prescribed psychiatric drugs - in this BBC documentary . Read More...

Published 19 Apr 2010 1:09 PM by Mad World

Filed under: bbc, children, media, medication, Mental Health, USA
The Americanisation of mental illness?

There is a fascinating article by Ethan Watters in the New York Times, arguing that the US and broadly Western model of mental health has been colonising the rest of the world and it's not necessarily a good thing. Read More...

Published 11 Jan 2010 3:56 PM by Mad World

Filed under: Mental Health, stigma, USA
Photos of abandoned mental health hospitals

There are some beautiful and haunting photos of abandoned mental health hospitals in the New York Times. Read More...

Published 27 Nov 2009 4:15 PM by Mad World

Filed under: Mental Health, photography, USA
Untested autism treatments

Mind Hacks has an interesting post on untested and potentially dangerous treatments being used on autistic children by desperate parents in the US. Read More...

Published 25 Nov 2009 11:11 AM by Mad World

Filed under: autism, Mental Health, USA
Social worker with a camera?

Check out in the NY Times the photos of Joseph Rodriguez , the self-styled US social worker with a camera, who has documented urban strife and poverty in New York and LA. Read More...

Published 22 Oct 2009 4:48 PM by Mad World

Filed under: joseph rodriguez, photography, social work, USA
Are 'Psycho Donuts' stigmatising

A Californian retailer who decided to call his shop Psycho Donuts, and deck the place out in the theme of an old-fashioned asylum has unsurprisingly found himself at the centre of something of a storm. Read More...

Published 19 Aug 2009 3:07 PM by Mad World

Filed under: Mental Health, stigma, USA
I wanna be a social worker!

Actually I don't, I'm happy staying as a community editor. However, one young American certainly does want to be a social worker. So much so, she's written a song about it. Read More...

Published 8 May 2009 1:09 PM by Mad World

Filed under: social work, USA
Misconceptions about social work in Singapore

There's a debate going on in CareSpace about popular social work misconceptions in the UK . Read More...

Published 23 Mar 2009 10:17 AM by Mad World

Filed under: singapore, social work, social workers, USA, world social work day
Psychiatry, the drugs industry and measuring charities

There's a storm brewing in the US about the ties between psychiatrists and the drugs industry. In the latest story a world-famous psychiatrist has admitted taking money from a drug company to set up a research centre to promote their products. Read...

Published 25 Nov 2008 2:10 PM by Mad World

Filed under: charities, Mental Health, pharmaceutical companies, psychiatry, USA

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