Schizophrenia Research Foundation (SCARF) introduced the eleventh SCARF Media for Mental Health Awards 2022, just about on Saturday, honouring journalists from throughout the nation and recognising their work that contributed to psychological well being consciousness. 

Journalists Amit Kamath and Meha Bhardwaj Alter had been recognised and awarded the primary place for his or her sequence “Mind Over Medals” revealed in News9 Live which targeted on the psychological well being of sportspersons.

Rohitha Naraharisetty was given an ward for the article “Inside India’s Mental Health Institutions, Women Lose Autonomy and Agency” revealed in The Swaddle, and Devrupa Rakshit for the article “Society Idealizes Having a Great Memory. But What if It’s Better to Forget?” in The Swaddle had been awarded second and third locations respectively. 

As a part of the regional class, Santhosh Sisupal from Manorama Arogyam journal was awarded for an article on “Medicine for Mental Illness, Bust the Misconceptions”.

In the particular class launched to award psychological well being professionals, Anna Maria Joseph, a medical psychologist, was awarded for her piece in The Swaddle on “How Indian Women’s Mental Health is Deeply Tied to Proper Menstrual Care”.

Advocate Sanjay Pinto introduced the awards and delivered the keynote deal with. 

Speaking concerning the award-winning tales, Jaya Sreedhar, Media Health Consultant and Chairperson of the SCARF Media Awards, stated that it was a welcome development to see points similar to menstruation, stress at work, and different on a regular basis features and their relation to psychological well being being explored extra critically. “These stories give rise to conversations which are gradually helping de-stigmatise mental health issues,” she stated. 

Ms. Jaya stated that journalists had an enormous accountability to assist readers navigate misinformation digitally in addition to make sense of a complete lot of additional data dished out within the identify of psychological well being recommendation.

Introducing a brand new challenge by SCARF, she stated that college students of mass communication and journalism can be inspired to write down characteristic tales on psychological well being which might then be chosen and despatched to completely different media retailers. A notification can be put out on the SCARF web site shortly calling for functions for a similar.

Venkatesh R., editor, Dinamalar Pattam and co-chairperson of the SCARF awards, was current.