YoungMinds launches youth mental health video and manifesto
Posted on 20/07/2009 | 0 Comments
Great video on youth mental health produced by YoungMinds in the UK. But good advice for any country and its leadership. "YoungMinds Very Important Kids (VIK), our national panel of young people with mental health problems, have launched a manifesto and accompanying film to highlight to politicians the changes that need to be made to improve young people’s mental health." You can download the YoungMinds children and young people's manifesto here "Written in their words and including their own stories it covers 11 areas where they believe things must change so that all young people with mental health problems get the support they often so desperately need." Manifesto main points
- Stigma still affects us; its about time we were able to talk about how we feel.
- Dealing with problems when we are young; train primary school staff
- Growing up is difficult; support us when changes happen in our lives
- Getting what we need at secondary school; train everyone to understand teenagers problems.
- Waiting lists and assessments just make it harder; make them shorter and provide us with one worker for all our care.
- Some doctors don’t listen to us; they need to understand and support us
- Going to Accident and Emergency can be traumatic; treat us with respect, see beyond our labels
- Some psychiatric units feel like prisons; learn from the best ones
- Someone to speak up for us; we all need advocates
- Lost in the system; don’t forget about us when we are 16 plus
- We’re the experts; start listening to us
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This is a great set of comments and rings very true.
I totally agree that scientists (just like everyone else) have their biases and foibles. After all, scientists are human beings too! But science is different than scientists.
The scientific method is the most objective frame that we have by which to evaluate and predict. Science is not about finding truth. It is only about being less wrong most of the time. The scientific method (experimental design and mathematics) gives us the ability to test what we believe. The scientific method is not used to prove something is correct, on the contrary, the scientific method is designed to prove that something is not correct! It is designed to test what is called the “null hypothesis”. It takes ideas that come out of left field (or wherever else they come from) and puts those ideas to an independent test.
t does not drive our beliefs. It does however challenge our beliefs. In that way it is self-correcting. Of course scientific inquiry and understanding lives within a wider social context. That is one of the great features of science.
But gravity is gravity, social context notwithstanding. And thus it is nasty, brutish and long. As Brecht said, (something like this) - the purpose of science is to save us from everlasting error.
By Christina Carew on May 11th
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