- Commercial influences frame mental health as an individual problem, undermining equitable community care for people with serious mental illness.
- Dominant narratives promote screening and commercialisation, commodifying services and diverting attention from systemic drivers and community resources.
- Authors urge nuanced, structural narratives to support promotion, prevention, treatment and recovery oriented community solutions across the care continuum.
Community Ment Health J. 2026 May 26. doi: 10.1007/s10597-026-01659-w. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
Community mental health aims to provide effective care to all people, especially those living with serious mental illness. However, commercial influences undermine the ability to provide this needed care. In this commentary, we use the commercial determinants of health (CDoH) framework to analyze dominant mental health narratives that frame the mental health crisis as an individual problem, encourage mental health screening, and support the commercialization of mental health. To counter this intra-individual approach, we offer nuanced narratives that are robust enough to facilitate effective and focused care across the continuum of care: mental health promotion and prevention, mental health treatment, and recovery-oriented solutions.
PMID:42189352 | DOI:10.1007/s10597-026-01659-w
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