Mental Health

Mental-health problems have an individual, social, academic, financial and governmental impact, throughout life (Kohn et al., 2004);

It is estimated that around 10-20% of people of age between 10 and 24 years old suffers from a mental-health problem (WHO,2021).
About 60% of mental-health problems go unnoticed through lifespan (WHO, 2001).

Mental-health-related stigma is one of the reasons for this (Chaudoir & Fisher, 2010), amongst others, such as lack of knowledge (Tomezyk et al., 2018).
More recently, relevant literature reviews have demonstrated the potential of art-based programs to reduce mental-health-related stigma (Gaiha et al., 2021).

And that is how our project was born! To learn more about the project’s different phases

Kohn, R., Saxena, S., Levav, I., & Saraceno, B. (2004). The treatment gap in mental health care. Bulletin of the World health Organization, 82(11), 858-866. Retrieved from https://www.scielosp.org/pdf/bwho/v82n11/v82n11a11.pdf
World Health Organization. (2021). Adolescent mental health. retrieved from https://www.who.int/news-room/fact-sheets/detail/adolescent-mental-health
World Health Organization. (2001). Mental disorders affect one in four people. Retrieved from https://www.who.int/news-room/detail/28-09-2001-the-world-health-report-2001-mental-disorders-affect-one-in-four-people
Tomczyk, S., Muehlan, H., Freitag, S., Stolzenburg, S., Schomerus, G., & Schmidt, S. (2018). Is knowledge “half the battle”? The role of depression literacy in help-seeking among a non-clinical sample of adults with currently untreated mental health problems. Journal of affective disorders, 238, 289-296. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jad.2018.05.059
Chaudoir, S. R., & Fisher, J. D. (2010). The disclosure processes model: Understanding disclosure decision making and postdisclosure outcomes among people living with a concealable stigmatized identity. Psychological Bulletin, 136(2), 236–256. https://doi.org/10.1037/a0018193
Gaiha, S.M., Salisbury, T.T., Usmani, S. et al. Effectiveness of arts interventions to reduce mental-health-related stigma among youth: a systematic review and meta-analysis. BMC Psychiatry 21, 364 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1186/s12888-021-03350-8