Category Archives: Anxiety

Mental Health First Aid Program Comes to NYC | Al Jazeera America

A daylong training program that teaches volunteers to recognize and respond to mental health crises will soon be offered to a quarter of a million New Yorkers, in a bid to make such training as common as that for CPR or first …

Book about mental illness — created by a Jewish father and son …

“Challenger Deep” may be fiction, but it is written from the experiences that Shusterman had parenting Brendan as he went through many diagnoses for mental illness during his teen years. In his acceptance remarks at the …

Perdido Street School: Rob Astorino Offers Mental Health Services …

Rob Astorino Offers Mental Health Services To "Insecure" Andrew Cuomo. This made my day: Westchester County Executive Rob Astorino—the 2014 Republican candidate for governor—today suggested Gov. Andrew …

California Case Shows How Mental Health Cuts Overload ERs …

States cut five billion dollars in mental health services from 2009 to 2012, according to USA Today. A new article online in Annals of Emergency.

Validation of the Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) and GAD …

The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-7 (GAD-7) was developed in the USA as a valuable screening tool for detecting GAD in primary care patients [15]. The Generalized Anxiety Disorder-2 (GAD-2) is a short version of the tool …