Commentary Open Access
Volume 5 | Issue 1 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.33696/mentalhealth.5.050
Seeds of a New Society: The Seychelles National Youth Service (NYS) as a Prefigurative Form for Mental Health and Wellbeing
Simon Murray1,*
- 1Honorary Senior Research Fellow, Theatre Studies in the School of Culture and Creative Arts, University of Glasgow, Scotland G12 8QQ
Corresponding Author
Simon Murray, Simon.Murray@glasgow.ac.uk
Received Date: June 17, 2025
Accepted Date: July 07, 2025
Murray S. Seeds of a New Society: The Seychelles National Youth Service (NYS) as a Prefigurative Form for Mental Health and Wellbeing. J Ment Health Disord. 2025;5(1):124–128.
Copyright: © 2025 Murray S. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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