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Item type:Publication, Mental health and psychiatric care(Taylor and Francis, 2024-01-01)The WHO defines mental health as a “state of well-being in which every individual realises his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and fruitfully, and is able to make a contribution to her or his community”. This definition implies that mental health is reliant on a wide array of factors all of which are enshrined in international human rights law. The relationship between mental health and human rights has at least three parts. First, human rights violations such as torture and displacement negatively affect mental health. Second, mental health practices, such as coercive treatment practices, impact human rights. Third, the advancement of human rights benefits people’s mental health conditions. There are clinical and economic reasons, as well as moral and legal obligations, to advance human rights in mental health care. The Special UN Rapporteur in a report to the UN Human Rights Council (Forty-fourth session, 15 June-3 July 2020) welcomes the international recognition that there is no health without mental health. However, the Rapporteur also emphasises that despite promising trends, there remains a global failure of the status quo to address human rights violations in mental health-care systems. - Some of the metrics are blocked by yourconsent settings
Item type:Publication, Qhali: A humanoid robot for assisting in mental health treatment(Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2024-02-01)In recent years, social assistive robots have gained significant acceptance in healthcare settings, particularly for tasks such as patient care and monitoring. This paper offers a comprehensive overview of the expressive humanoid robot, Qhali, with a focus on its industrial design, essential components, and validation in a controlled environment. The industrial design phase encompasses research, ideation, design, manufacturing, and implementation. Subsequently, the mechatronic system is detailed, covering sensing, actuation, control, energy, and software interface. Qhali’s capabilities include autonomous execution of routines for mental health promotion and psychological testing. The software platform enables therapist-directed interventions, allowing the robot to convey emotional gestures through joint and head movements and simulate various facial expressions for more engaging interactions. Finally, with the robot fully operational, an initial behavioral experiment was conducted to validate Qhali’s capability to deliver telepsychological interventions. The findings from this preliminary study indicate that participants reported enhancements in their emotional well-being, along with positive outcomes in their perception of the psychological intervention conducted with the humanoid robot.