With great fanfare, last September the United Nations adopted the “Post 2015 Sustainable Development Agenda,” a seemingly laudable agenda containing 17 goals from “End Poverty in All Its Forms Everywhere,” through …
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7 Ways 2015 Was Defined By Mental Health – Huffington Post
For the nearly 44 million Americans who experience mental illness in a given year, 2015 could be regarded as a source of solace. This was the year that celebrities spoke up, research improved and more people started …
Making Juvenile Hall the Mental Health Provider of Last — Not First …
According to a new study by the San Francisco-based Young Minds Advocacy, as many as 70 percent of the kids in California's juvenile detention centers are in need of mental health care, and most of them are not getting it.
Government continues to neglect veterans as PTSD epidemic …
Whether it has been referred to as "shell shock," or "battle fatigue," or by its most modern incarnation, "post-traumatic stress disorder," all soldiers, sailors, Marines and airmen who experience war don't respond to it in the same …
Robert Spitzer, Psychiatrist Who Helped Declassify Homosexuality …
Dr. Robert L. Spitzer, a pioneering psychiatrist who helped define the mental health field through his work on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM), is now dead at the age of 83. As reported by The …