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.

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.