Knowledge Exchange

Articles

  • Brophy, L., Kokanovic, R., Flore, J., McSherry, B., & Herrman, H. (2019). Community Treatment Orders and Supported Decision-Making. Frontiers in Psychiatry, 10, 12 pages. doi:10.3389/fpsyt.2019.00414

    Brophy, L., Edan, V., Gooding, P., McSherry, B., Burkett, T., Carey, S., ... & Weller, P. (2018). Community treatment orders: towards a new research agenda. Australasian Psychiatry, 26(3), 299-302. https://doi.org/10.1177%2F1039856218758543

  • Edan, V., Hamilton, B., & Brophy, L. (2021). Advance Planning in Mental Health Care: The Trouble with Terminology. Journal of law and medicine, 28(3), 655-662.

    Edan, V., Brophy, L., Weller, P. J., Fossey, E., & Meadows, G. (2019). The experience of the use of Community Treatment Orders following recovery-oriented practice training. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 64, 178-183. doi:10.1016/j.ijlp.2019.04.001

  • Ibrahim, M., & Morrow, M. (2015). Weaning off colonial psychiatry in Kenya. Journal of Ethics and Mental Health, pp. 1-6. Open Volume.   https://jemh.ca/issues/v9/documents/JEMH_Open-Volume_Article_Theme_Colonization_Weaning_June2015.pdf

  • Githaiga, D. (2022). https://shineindarkness.org/2022/05/04/how-does-mental-health-relate-to-human-rights/

  • Johnston, L., Milne, K., Morrow, M. (2022). Expanding institutional and involuntary approaches to mental health and substance use treatment is not an effective solution. Health Law in Canada, vol.42(4), pp. 116-121.

  • Gordon, S. (forthcoming) Human Rights: Exploring the application of supported decision-making in practice.

    International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health.

  • Morrow, M., & Malcoe, L. H. (Eds.). (2017). Critical inquiries for social justice in mental health. University of Toronto Press.

  • Morrow, M., & Weisser, J. (2012). Towards a social justice framework of mental health recovery. Studies in Social Justice, 6(1), 27-43.

    Morrow, M., Dagg, P., & Pederson, A. (2008). Is deinstitutionalization a ‘failed experiment’? The ethics of re-institutionalization. Journal of Ethics and Mental Health, 3(2). http://www.jemh.ca/issues/v3n2/index.html.

  •  Van veen, C., Teghtsoonian, K., & Morrow, M. (2019). Enacting violence and care: Neoliberalism, knowledge claims and resistance. In A. Daley, L. Costa, & P. Beresford (Eds.), Madness, violence and power: A critical collection (pp. 59-63). Toronto: University of Toronto Press.

  • Van Veen, C., Ibrahim, M., & Morrow, M. (2018). Dangerous discourses: Masculinity, coercion and psychiatry. In J. Kilty & E. Dej (Eds.), Containing madness: Gender and ‘Psy’ in institutional contexts (pp. 241-265). UK: Palgrave MacMillan.

  • Maylea, C., Katterl, S., Johnson, B., Alvarez-Vasquez, S., Hill, N., Weller, P. (2021). Consumers' experiences of rights-based mental health laws: Lessons from Victoria, Australia. International Journal of Law and Psychiatry, 78(101737). ISSN 0160-2527, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ijlp.2021.101737.

 

Reports

  • Bernasky, T., Gordon, J., Buettgen, A., Hardie, S., Morrow, M. & Rioux, M. (2020). Disability, Human rights, Access and Research to Support Learning: Literature review and environmental scan. Toronto: Critical Disability Studies Program in the School of Health Policy and Management at York University and Canadian Centre on Disability Studies Incorporated operating as Eviance.

  • Firestone, M., Bayoumi, AM., Steer, L., Khoee, K. (Co-lead authors). Akaehomhen, A., Lee Soh, B., Holness, L., Nisembaum, R., Schlosser, L., Beder, M., Boozary, A., Hwang, S., Kolla, G., Mohamed, A., O’Campo, P., Pariseau, T. (2021). COVID-19 isolation and recovery sites evaluation: A MARCA report. MAP Centre for Urban Health Solutions, St. Michael’s Hospital: Toronto. Available from: https://maphealth.ca/wp-content/uploads/CIRS_MARCO-JAN-2022.pdf.

 

Resources/Training

Madness Canada/Folie Canada

Check out the Madness Canada/Folie Canada website for resources and teaching materials:

https://madnesscanada.com/

Eviance

Our partner Eviance also has lots of resources. See their list of projects here:

http://www.disabilitystudies.ca/canadian-centre-on-disability-studies--projects.html

WHO QualityRights e-training

Complete the QualityRights e-training on mental health, recovery and community inclusion and earn a certificate from the World Health Organization!

This training will help you:

  • improve your own mental health

  • learn how to support friends, family and members of the community

  • gain the knowledge and skills to tackle stigma, abuses and coercion in mental health

  • gain valuable expertise and skills to help transform services towards a person-centered, rights-based recovery approach

Access the WHO QualityRights e-training, or spread the word by downloading the training flyer.

Webinar with TCI Global

Mad People's Movement: Reclaiming Collective Activist Histories

This webinar brings activists from the Global South and Global North together in an intergenerational discussion about mad activism, movements of persons with psychosocial disabilities and disability rights across time.

View the webinar recording in English

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RHRSJ Webinar 2

Disrupting Colonialism & Biomedical Reductionism in Mental Health: Enhancing Equity & Protecting Human Rights

This webinar brings together activists to discuss the ways in which biomedical reach in mental health is experienced differently in the Global South and Global North.


View the webinar recording in English

View the webinar recording in Spanish

View the webinar recording in Japanese

View the webinar recording in Mandarin

Read the webinar transcript

 

In-progress publications

  •  Snyder, L. (In progress, 2022). Goodnight Dad. New Sociology Praxis, York University. 

  • Gold, E., and Snyder, L. (In progress, 2022). A grave by any other name. Mad Matters. 2nd edition. Eds B. Le Francois, R. Menzies, and G. Reaume.