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Category: News & Updates
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Belonging Matters: New Research Links School Connection to Teen Wellbeing
Recent reporting by The Conversation highlights new research from Australia’s Black Dog Institute suggesting that a young person’s sense of belonging at school may be one of the strongest foundations for their mental wellbeing. Researchers followed more than 1,500 Year 8 students across 35 high schools in New South Wales, examining a wide range of…
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Growing Things, Growing Well: New Evidence on Therapeutic Gardening
Recent reporting by PsyPost highlights new evidence that something as ordinary as tending a garden can meaningfully support mental wellbeing for people living with long-term health conditions. The review, published in BMC Public Health, pooled 23 separate trials involving 4,535 adults, all of whom were managing at least one chronic condition. Across those studies, structured…
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Where Life Makes Sense: New Evidence Linking Meaning and Lower Depression
Recent reporting by PsyPost highlights a large new analysis suggesting that people who experience their lives as meaningful tend to carry lower levels of depression. Published in the Journal of Affective Disorders, the review pooled 278 separate studies covering more than 250,000 participants worldwide. Researchers at Jiangxi Normal University found a consistent pattern: as a…
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Healing at the Root: New Evidence That Trauma Therapy Can Ease Psychosis
Recent reporting by The Conversation highlights a growing body of evidence that treating trauma can also ease the symptoms of psychosis – a finding with real significance for how we care for people whose suffering has long been misunderstood. Psychosis, the article explains, is not a diagnosis but a cluster of experiences, including hallucinations, delusions…
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Naming What Wellness Looks Like: Experts Agree on 19 Dimensions of Positive Mental Health
Recent reporting by PsyPost highlights a new consensus study in Nature Mental Health that attempts something the field has long lacked: a shared definition of what good mental health actually looks like. Using a structured, multi-round expert survey known as the Delphi method, researchers consulted 122 senior academics from 26 countries across 11 disciplines, from…
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A Landmark NHS Trial Brings New Hope for Treatment-Resistant Depression
Recent reporting by King’s College London highlights a milestone in mental health research: the UK’s first publicly funded randomised controlled trial of psilocybin for depression has delivered very promising results. Published in Nature Medicine, the PsiDeR trial recruited 60 people living with treatment-resistant depression – depression that had not responded to at least two prior…
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Lived Experience Is Expertise: New Research Affirms Peer Workers in Addiction Recovery
Recent reporting by Medical Xpress highlights new research from the University of New South Wales affirming something many in the recovery community have long known: people who have walked the road of addiction themselves can be among the most powerful guides for others seeking healing. The study, published in the International Journal of Drug Policy,…
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A Note on Our Approach to Ibogaine, Psilocybin & Cannabis-Based Therapies
We’ve had some good conversations recently with partners and community members about what the Maccabeus Foundation actually does when it comes to Ibogaine, Psilocybin, and cannabis-based therapies — and we want to be clear and upfront about it. We do not currently offer, administer, or sell these therapies The Maccabeus Foundation does not provide, administer,…
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UNODC World Drug Report 2026: What the Numbers Mean for Africa’s Youth
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) has released its World Drug Report 2026, and the numbers tell a sobering story. Drug use is climbing faster than the global population, treatment remains out of reach for almost everyone who needs it, and young people — especially in Africa — are carrying an outsized…
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Northern Ontario Opens Its First Live-In Home for Youth Mental Health Recovery
Recent reporting by CBC News highlights a hopeful development in youth mental health care. A new residential treatment program opening in Sudbury, Ontario, will give young people from across the north a place to heal without being uprooted from their families and communities. The Step Up Step Down program, run by the non-profit children’s mental…
