Mental Health
Rural mental health service to end after funding shortfall
A mental health scheme tackling suicide and depression in rural communities will shut down on Friday after losing its bid for government funding.
'Desperately disappointing' end to rural health service
A mental health initiative to tackle suicide and depression in rural communities is likely to be one of the major casualties of a government decision to reject funding for an umbrella organisation for… Audio
Rural mental health group says govt rebuffed call for cash
A rural-based suicide prevention scheme will grind to a halt in June after its organisers were rebuffed in their quest for more money to pay for it.
Can't commit to a dog? Borrow someone else's
Many of us would love to have a dog, but can’t take on full-time ownership. Sarah Walker has set up the Dog Share Collective to connect people who love dogs with pooches that need a little more… Audio, Gallery
Rise in complex issues for children at activity centres
Activity centres for at-risk students are reporting a spike in mental health problems such as anxiety and self-harming among the students they work with.
Are you sabotaging a good relationship?
Raquel Peel's PhD research at James Cook University in Townsville is on why people sabotage relationships that look to be good ones, with good people. Audio
Andrea Cipriani: Study shows antidepressants do work
A major international study published in The Lancet has found antidepressants do work. Prof Andrea Cipriani is the study's lead author - he's honorary consultant psychologist in the Department of… Audio
'Painful' wait for change after suicides in mental health care
The mothers of two young men who killed themselves while under mental health care say that when the system fails it should be easier and quicker to find out what went wrong. They say the… Audio
Māori narratives used to heal mentally ill
A health clinic in Gisborne is using Maori myths and legends to heal their mentally-ill patients and researchers say there's been a dramatic drop in the number of people referred to psychiatric care… Audio
Mike King: I Am Hope tour
Mental Health advocate Mike King is travelling from Bluff to Cape Reinga with seven others riding 50cc scooters. Along the way he's talking to young people about mental health in the "I am Hope Tour"… Audio
Prof David Nutt: 'It's irrational to deny people access to LSD'
A former drug policy advisor to the UK's Labour government is in New Zealand to talk about how psychedelic drugs could help control a number of mental health problems and why the war on drugs is a… Audio
Austin Eubanks - Surviving trauma after Columbine
Watching students flee from a gunman at their school in Florida last week brought back painful memories for Austin Eubanks. Eubanks hid under a table in the school library in 1999 as two students… Audio
Insight: Madness of War
The BBC's, Sahar Zand, reports from a mental institution in Afghanistan where doctors are trying to undo the mental trauma caused by years of war.
Mental health inquiry to be led by Ron Paterson
A former public health watchdog, Ron Paterson, will lead the just announced Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction. The Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says mental health services are stretched and… Audio
Mental health inquiry given just 9 months
Prime Minister Jacinda Ardern says nothing is off the table for the ministerial inquiry into mental health and addiction. The panel of experts will have just nine months to investigate issues ranging… Audio
Health Minister: ‘We’re not going to sit on our laurels’
David Clark tells John Campbell the government is desperate for changes in the mental health sector, and understands the urgency involved. Audio
Govt names head of mental health inquiry
A ministerial inquiry into mental health and addiction is not about tinkering, as significant change is needed in the sector, Health Minister David Clark says. Video, Audio
Mental health inquiry a long time coming - sector responds
People working in the mental health sector welcome an inquiry, but say it will 'mean nothing' if it's not well resourced. Audio
Mental health inquiry details announced
Former Health and Disability Commissioner Ron Paterson will head the government's inquiry into mental health. Video, Audio
At-risk prisoner units getting therapeutic makeover
They were once stark, forbidding places but units for at-risk prisoners are undergoing a makeover.
