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Psychologists for Social Change. Also home of the #PsychologistsAgainstAusterity campaign. RTs not (always) endorsements
Feb 5, 2019 12 tweets 3 min read
What does it mean to say that mental health is a social and political issue?

A thread with ten different and interconnected ideas for #ChildrensMentalHealthWeek. 1) Causal pathways: Probably the most ideological and ripe for accusations of cherry picking on both sides. Investigates and campaigns around the relationship between various social inequalities (poverty, ethnicity, gender etc.) and prevalence of mental illness or distress.