Protecting and promoting mental wellbeing: Beyond COVID-19

The fifth discussion paper from the Koi Tū ‘The Future is Now’ Conversation Series, Protecting and Promoting Mental Wellbeing: Beyond COVID-19, focuses on mitigating the threats posed by COVID-19 to the mental wellbeing of New Zealanders – both the already vulnerable sectors of society, as well as newly at-risk individuals facing major, unexpected disruptions in their lives.

Download the discussion paper here

See also:

• Media release
• Stuff: Mental health needs set to double in wake of Covid-19, report says (13 June 2020)
• TVNZ’s Breakfast: Demand for mental health services may double over next two years because of Covid-19 – psychology professor (8′ 17″)
• Newshub’s The AM Show: Mental health needs expected to double in wake of COVID-19 (3′ 36″)
• Arirang (Korea; recorded 4 June): Public mental health and well being in COVID-19 era (4′ 29″ to 11′ 58″)
• Stuff: Coronavirus: Mental health admissions will spike post-lockdown – DHB (9 July)
• Stuff: The worrying state of mental health (26 September)
  
  

Other papers in the Conversation Series:

1st paper: The Future Is Now: Implications of COVID-19 for New Zealand (17 April 2020)
2nd paper: He Oranga Hou: Social cohesion in a post-COVID world (4 May 2020)
3rd paper: New Zealand’s Place in the World: The Implications of COVID-19 (20 May 2020)
4th paper: The Environment is Now (29 May 2020)
6th paper: The Future of Food & The Primary Sector: The Journey to Sustainability (17 June 2020)

7th paper: New Zealand’s Economic Future: COVID-19 as a Catalyst for Innovation (6 November 2020)