In recent years, the global mental health landscape has shifted dramatically. Rising rates of mental illness and distress, compounded by geopolitical instability, climate-related trauma and systemic inequities, have placed unprecedented pressure on mental health systems worldwide (World Health Organization 2022, 2025). Amid this crisis, mental health nurses-who comprise nearly half of the global mental health workforce-remain under-recognised, under-resourced and under-represented in global and national leadership and policymaking (World Health Organization 2025; Jackson et al. 2025). The November 2025 Mental Health Nursing Leaders' Summit in Barcelona, Spain, marks a pivotal moment to reclaim visibility, assert disciplinary self-determination and chart a transformative path forward.
Editorial
Resistant Insistent Persistent: A Global Call by Mental Health Nursing Leaders
International journal of mental health nursing, Vol.35(1), e70210
02/2026
DOI: 10.1111/inm.70210
PMID: 41504173
Abstract
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- Title: Subtitle
- Resistant Insistent Persistent: A Global Call by Mental Health Nursing Leaders
- Creators
- Rhonda L Wilson - RMIT UniversityFrederik Alkier Gildberg - Mental Health ServicesTanya Park - Cairns HospitalJohn Baker - Leeds Community Healthcare NHS TrustWendy Cross - Federation UniversityAisling Culhane - Irish Horseracing Regulatory Board (Ireland)Catherine Daniel - The University of MelbourneNathan Dart - Metro South HealthSarah Flogen - Canadian Nurses AssociationHineroa Hakiaha - Mental Health FoundationOliver Higgins - RMIT UniversityCatherine Hungerford - Central Queensland UniversityAntonio R Moreno Poyato - Asociación Española Contra el CáncerSilvia Rosado Figuerola - Universitat de BarcelonaVanessa Sánchez-Martínez - Universitat de ValènciaKim Usher - University of New EnglandDaniel E Wesemann - University of Iowa
- Resource Type
- Editorial
- Publication Details
- International journal of mental health nursing, Vol.35(1), e70210
- DOI
- 10.1111/inm.70210
- PMID
- 41504173
- NLM abbreviation
- Int J Ment Health Nurs
- ISSN
- 1447-0349
- eISSN
- 1447-0349
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Language
- English
- Date published
- 02/2026
- Academic Unit
- Nursing
- Record Identifier
- 9985116068402771
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