Category Archives: Mental Health Awareness

Analyzing kids' hair may help predict risk of mental illness — RT News

Aussie researchers have found that the number and types of traumatic events experienced by kids earlier in childhood – such as an injury, severe illness and death in the family – correlate with the levels of the “stress …

Can better background checks, mental health care reduce gun …

Other measures include expanding the role of the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives, and making a $500 million investment to improve access to mental-health care. Hoover said she believes the changes …

SDC and NAMI Help People Living with Mental Illness | 860WNOV

MILWAUKEE, Wis. – The Social Development Commission (SDC) and NAMI of Greater Milwaukee partnered on Saturday, December 19, to offer a Mental Health Resource Fair providing free resources to individuals and …

Foreign Service Members Offer Candid Views of @StateDept Mental …

Posted: 3:04 am EDT The January issue of the Foreign Service Journal is out. The issue is focused on mental health care for the Foreign Service. Dr. Samuel Thielman, a recently retired regional medical officer/psychiatrist for …

Therapy wars: the revenge of Freud | Oliver Burkeman – The Guardian

The long read: Cheap and effective, CBT became the dominant form of therapy, consigning Freud to psychology's dingy basement. But new studies have cast doubt on its supremacy – and shown dramatic results for …