Mental Health Resource Center
This page lists learning resources and reading materials about mental health to support people in their personal growth or during a challenging time. If there is an immediate concern of harm to yourself or someone else, please connect with the Trust and Safety team immediately following the emergency process.
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Introduction to the Mental Health Resource Center
Welcome. This page aims to provide resources for and about mental health in non-emergency situations. If this is an emergency, please use the list of helplines or emergency numbers above for immediate help. Your safety and emotional well-being is important.
How to use this page
Stigma and lack of knowledge about the topic often stop us from taking care of our emotional well-being. This page lists resources for support during a crisis or challenging time or just to learn more about mental health. We invite you to take a look and learn about your mental health, or give someone a link to this page if you believe it could support them during a difficult time.
If you are unsure where to start, you might start by looking through the General information section.
Resources listed on this page are in atable which can be sorted by language.
General information
Embrace Multicultural Mental Health provides mental health information in a culturally accessible format (Arabic, Assyrian, Bengali, Burmese, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Dari, Dinka, English, Farsi, Greek, Hazaragi, Italian, Karen, Nepali, Punjabi, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Vietnamese)
This Way Up provides tools and resources to calm your emotions, express yourself and tackle problems (Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, English, Filipino, Greek, Hindi, Italian, Korean, Spanish, Vietnamese)
Multicultural Mental Health Resource Centre provides information in more than 25 languages (Arabic, Chinese, English, Farsi, Spanish, and others)
Mental Health and Human Rights Info collects informational material, tools and exercises on mental health and human rights violations in disaster, war, and conflict areas (English, Spanish)
Digital Rights Foundation Self-help toolkit on mental health (English)
International Foundation of the Red Cross (Arabic, English, French, Spanish)
Psychosocial Centre (Arabic, English, French, Spanish)
Psy-Gesundheit provides resources for navigating mental health needs (French, German, Italian)
Talking about mental health: A handbook for civil society provides a starting point for thinking and talking about mental health issues (English)
An extensive glossary of mental health terms by the Government of New South Wales (Arabic, Assyrian, Bengali, Burmese, Chinese Simplified, Chinese Traditional, Dari, Dinka, English, Farsi, Filipino, Greek, Hazaragi, Hindi, Indonesian, Italian, Karen, Korean, Kurdish Sorani, Macedonian, Mongolian, Nepali, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Swahili, Tamil, Thai, Tibetan, Vietnamese)
Harassment, trauma and witnessing upsetting content
The Wikimedia Foundation has a harassment resource guide (English) and a sexual harassment information guide (Chinese, English, French, Korean, Spanish)
The Wikimedia Foundation has a guide on how to minimize the impact of seeing graphic and upsetting content before and after viewing it (English)
An article on Vice tells you How to powerwash your brain after seeing graphic content online (English)
Chayn offers resources and guided courses on healing from gender-based violence and trauma, written by survivors and experts from different cultures and experiences (Albanian, Arabic, English, French, Hindi, Italian, Pashto, Persian, Portuguese, Russian, Spanish, Turkish, Urdu)
The Child Mind Institute provides trauma resources to aid parents, educators, and other adults in talking to children and adolescents about potentially traumatic events (Arabic, Bengali, Chinese, English, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hungarian, Italian, Polish, Russian, Slovak, Spanish, Turkish, Ukrainian)
Psychosocial Centre How to manage your exposure to news events and social media (English, Polish, Ukrainian)
UNICEF information on Cyberbullying, what is it and how to stop it (Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Spanish)
Stress management
Transcultural Mental Health on stress management (Burmese, Dari, English, Farsi, Hungarian, Nepali, Pashto, Polish, Russian, Swahili, Tamil, Tibetan, Ukrainian)
Doing what matters in times of stress is an interactive learning module on stress management techniques by the WHO (English, Russian, Ukrainian)
Digital Rights Foundation Digital detox and Self Care toolkit (English)
Tips for digital detox by Data Detox Kit (multilingual)
Let’s Connect Learning Clinic on identifying and managing burnout (English recording, slides in English, French, Portuguese, and Spanish)
Dialectical behavioral therapy offers informational material and exercises on mindfulness, emotion regulation, distress tolerance and interpersonal effectiveness (English).
Grief
About grief (English, Chinese, Italian, Greek, Vietnamese)
Coping with grief and loss (English)
Coping with grief after a disaster or traumatic event (English)
Coping with war, armed conflict and disaster
Coping personally with war and natural disasters (Albanian, Arabic, Bosnian, Chinese simplified, Chinese traditional, Croatian, Dari, English, Farsi, Hindi, Indonesian, Japanese, Khmer, Korean, Kurmanji, Lao, Punjabi, Russian, Sinhalese, Somal, Syrian, Serbian, Sorani, Tetum, Tamil, Thai, Turkish)
World Health Organization’s guide on psychological first aid (Afrikaans, Arabic, Bahasa Indonesia, Bosnian, Chinese, Czech, Dutch, Estonian, English, Farsi, French, German, Greek, Japanese, Jingphaw Kachin, S'gaw Karen, Hindi, Italian, Kiswahili, Korean, Myanmar, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Serbian, Shan, Sinhala, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Tamil, Turkish, Ukrainian, Urdu, Vietnamese)
One-pager on psychosocial support in times of crisis (English)
How to talk to children about war? (English, Polish, Ukrainian, Portuguese, Turkish, Russian, Romanian)
11 Tips for Protecting Yourself From Upsetting Images on Social Media (English)
Helping others
Psychosocial Centre Psychological First Aid Kit (Arabic, Chinese, Dari, French, Japanese, Ukrainian).
The Good Friend Guide provides advice for supporting anyone who is experiencing abuse and distress (English, Spanish, Portuguese)
Mental Health and Human Rights Info Resources for those close to someone who has experienced severe abuse (English, Spanish).
Mental Health and Human Rights Info Supporting survivors of human rights violations (English, Spanish).
Samaritans How to support someone you’re worried about (English).
What is empathy? (English with multilingual subtitle options).
Suggesting resources
Do you have a resource to suggest? If you have a resource to suggest, please email ca
wikimedia.org. As with the Helpline information page, the Wikimedia Foundation’s Trust and Safety team is tasked with maintaining the pages of the Mental Health Resource Center. The Trust and Safety team will do a quarterly review of the content, which will include reviewing any recommended changes left on the talk page. Because this is a resource the Trust and Safety team sends to people who are in crisis, for liability reasons they do have to review substantial changes. However, they very much hope for recommendations and ideas and especially notes of problems.
- Here is the checklist the Trust and Safety team will use to review resources for the Mental Health Resource Center. This checklist is meant to help you evaluate whether a mental health resource you want to add to this list is a good and reliable fit. If you find resources that are already on the page do not meet the criteria below, please flag them on the talk page. Thank you for your collaboration!
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- Mandatory criteria:
- The resource comes from a reliable source (also see Reliable Sources Checklist)
- The resource fits the scope and purpose of this page and its subcategories
- The resource is made by or in collaboration with mental health professionals
- The resource is permanent and up-to-date (expected to be accessible and useful in the future)
- The resource provider, its mission and organizational history does not conflict with the Wikimedia Foundation’s shared values
- Nice to have criteria:
- The resource is multilingual/in a language that is underrepresented on this page so far
- The resource is useful for an online movement and its members