Virtual special issue on ‘mental health and community’ to celebrate Mental Health Awareness Week 2025

Mental Health and Digital Technologies

In support of Mental Health Awareness Week and the theme 'Community’ please find below some content highlights from across Emerald’s health and social care journals to celebrate the power and importance of community approaches to mental health.

This content is in free access from 9th May to 8th June.

Community-based interventions on the social determinants of mental health in the UK: an umbrella review

A community center to mobilize public policies and human rights in mental health: “the door is always open”

A step towards community inclusion for individuals experiencing mental health challenges: promoting social inclusion and social recovery through physical activity

Informing mental health research priorities and design with rural and agricultural communities: a public involvement consultation case study

The cycle of acceptance: mental health professionals’ experience of workplace violence in a UK community mental health team

Using artificial intelligence to address mental health inequalities: co-creating machine learning algorithms with key stakeholders and citizen engagement

Refugee youth’s perspective on the role that food insecurity plays in a healthy community: a photovoice project

It takes a village: what lessons can the UK learn from rural community mental health services in Ghana?

Physical activity to address mental health in a remote Australian community: community readiness assessment

Coproduction in evaluating a dual diagnosis tool with youth in a residential mental health service

Refugees and mental wellbeing. A call for community approaches in Aotearoa New Zealand (open access)

The above articles are selected from Emerald Publishing’s journals in the topic area of mental health and include the following: