Story: Mental health services

More links and websites

• Government Inquiry into Mental Health and Addiction

  Information about New Zealand's sixth general inquiry into mental health services, which released its report in December 2018.

• Like Minds, Like Mine

  This public education programme aims to reduce the stigma and discrimination faced by people with experience of mental illness.

• Mental Health and Addictions - Help and Support

  Information about services available for those experiencing mental distress or addiction.

• Mental health

  This section of the Ministry of Health website provides access to policy documents and legislation relating to mental health.

• Mental Health Foundation

  This site provides information about the foundation, its programmes and networks, and a resource finder on mental health topics.

• Kaupapa Māori Mental Health and Addiction Services: Best Practice Framework

  An indigenous response to meeting the mental health and/or addiction needs of tangata whaiora and their whānau.

More suggestions and sources

• Brookes, Barbara, and Jane Thomson, eds. Unfortunate folk: essays on mental health treatment, 1863–1992. Dunedin: University of Otago Press, 2001.

• Brunton, Warwick. ‘The origins of deinstitutionalisation in New Zealand.’ Health and History 5, no.2 (2003), 75–103.

• Brunton, Warwick. 'The place of public inquiries in shaping New Zealand's mental health policy 1858-1996.' Australia and New Zealand Health Policy 2, no. 24 (2005) (PDF)

• Brunton, Warwick and Peter McGeorge. 'Grafting and crafting New Zealand's mental health policy' in Harry Minas and Milton Lewis, eds. Mental health in Asia and the Pacific. New York: Springer, 2017.

• Coney, Sandra (updated by Margaret Sparrow in 2018). 'Health organisations.' In Women together: a history of women’s organisations in New Zealand / Ngā rōpū wāhine o te motu, edited by Anne Else. Wellington: Historical Branch of Internal Affairs/Daphne Brasell, 1993, updated 2018.

• Frame, Janet, Faces in the water. Christchurch: Pegasus, 1961.

• Blueprint II: improving mental health and wellbeing for all New Zealanders. Wellington: Mental Health Commission, 2012. (PDF)

• Building on strengths: a new approach to promoting mental health in New Zealand/Aotearoa. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2002.

• Inquiry under Section 47 of the Health and Disability Services Act 1993 in respect of certain mental health services. Wellington: Ministry of Health, 1996. (PDF)

• National Mental Health Consortium: the tangata whenua report, the consumer report, the consortium report. Wellington: Department of Health, Department of Social Welfare, 1990.

• Te Āiotanga: report of the Confidential Forum for Former In-patients of Psychiatric Hospitals. Wellington: Department of Internal Affairs, 2007.

• Te Puāwaitanga: Māori mental health national strategic framework, Wellington: Ministry of Health, 2002.