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After the British had re-established colonial rule in Singapore at the end of World War II, the first person appointed as a psychologist was V W Wilson. He was appointed to the colonial Medical Service on 11 September 1956 on contract from the United Kingdom to build up and incorporate a full psychological service within the mental health programme at Woodbridge. [3]
The Mental Health (Care and Treatment) Act 2008 of Singapore [1] was passed in 2008 to regulate the involuntary detention of a person in a psychiatric institution for the treatment of a mental disorder, or in the interest of the health and safety of the person or the persons around him. [2]
Nat T. Winston Jr., M.D. was an American psychiatrist and healthcare pioneer, Tennessee's former commissioner of mental health, and a former candidate for Governor of Tennessee. Winston published Dear God: I Hope You Will Always Love Me and Forgive Me in 2009, a book that addresses and discusses topics in the sexual exploitation of American ...
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Singapore in the early colonial years was a poorly funded trading post with severe budget constraints due to Raffles' commitment to keep it as a free port, which meant that the administration was not able to raise funds through customs duties. [9] This made health care substantially more difficult to provide for in this new but bustling port.
The Sycamore Institute’s 2023 report, Child and Adolescent Mental Health in Tennessee, found that in 2021 40% of Tennessee high school students had symptoms of depression in the previous year ...
Right up to that point, care for the mentally ill was the responsibility of a few expatriate nurses and health attendants who lacked training in nursing (Institute of Mental Health 2003, p. 16). On 3 November 1924, the Legislative Council debated the construction of the new Mental Hospital (Ng 2001a, p. 22).
In November 1999, then-Minister for Health Lim Hng Kiang announced that Singapore's public healthcare institutions would be reorganized into two delivery networks, or clusters. [2] In October 2000, the formation of the two clusters - National Healthcare Group and SingHealth - was officially completed. [ 3 ]