This issue of the WAPR Bulletin invites us to rethink mental health and psychosocial rehabilitation and support in the context of migration, displacement, and moving populations. Bringing together contributions from researchers, practitioners, and people with lived experience across multiple regions of the world, the issue explores how mental health care can become more equitable, culturally responsive, and grounded in human rights amid increasing global displacement and social change. Articles examine language barriers in mental health services, global mental health and power structures, culturally informed care for immigrants and refugees, ageing and migration, collaborative practices, and Open Dialogue. The Human Rights and Mental Health section highlights lessons from implementing the WHO QualityRights programme in France, while the Sharing Experiences section features perspectives from humanitarian settings and conflict-affected communities, alongside reflections on epistemic injustice and the creation of more inclusive structures. The issue also includes recent migration research, artwork, and sharing of experiences related to the striving for dignity, inclusion, recovery, and social justice. Throughout this issue, photographs provided by A Drop in the Ocean offer a glimpse into the organization’s work supporting displaced communities in Greece and Poland.
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WAPR President’s Message
Marianne Farkas
Articles
- Providing Mental Health Services across Language Divides: The Training of Trainee Mental Health Practitioners in the Western Cape, South Africa. Siphesihle Mhlanga et al. (pp. 17–26)
- Contesting Global Mental Health: Disrupting Knowledge and Power Systems. Raj Mariwala, Amalina Sengupta & Saniya Rizwan (pp. 27–34)
- Care for Immigrant Homeless People with Mental Health Disorders from a Cultural Perspective. Fran Recalde Iglesias (pp. 35–47)
- Being, Belonging, and Becoming Needs among Older Iranian Immigrants in Sweden. Mitra Khalafbeigi, Farzaneh Yazdani & Ali Sarkoohi (pp. 48–57)
- The Collaborative Practice in Clinical Social Worker Education in the Czech Republic. Vlasta Řezníková & Petr Salamon (pp. 58–62)
- Open Dialogue: Because It Works or Because It Is Right? Olga Runciman & Pernille Mørch Jensen (pp. 63–67)
Human Rights and Mental Health
Recent Research on Migration
Esther Ogundipe (pp. 81–83)
Sharing Experiences
- The Dystopia of Survival and the Duty of the Witness. Audrey Mc Mahon (pp. 85–89)
- Commentary: A Message of Hope for the Renewal of Psychosocial Rehabilitation. Angelo Barbato (pp. 90–91)
- Icy Silence. Mahdia Hossaini (pp. 92–97)
- Healing Through Community: A Women-Led, Youth-Led, and IDP-Led Mental Health Response in Sudan. Tayseer Ebrahim (pp. 98–100)
- Reflections from the IHSA Conference: Localisation Beyond Rhetoric. Jean-Baptiste Metz (pp. 101–102)
- The Church Can Also Serve People with Deafblindness. Petr Salamon (pp. 103–104)