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State Prison Leaders Promise Changes to Mental Health Services …

Prison officials Karen Steinour, the prisons health services compliance officer; Kenneth Lassiter, deputy director of operations; and Director of Prisons George Solomon talk with mental health advocates at the NAMI annual …

Google's Latest Hire Has a Creepy Plan to Track Your Mental Health

Google's parent company Alphabet has just hired Thomas Insel, the former head of the National Institute of Mental Health, who has some pretty weird ideas about what his new job will entail. Insel told a crowd at Chicago …

Should You Use Your Employer's Mental Health Screening Tools …

In a word, no. Employer's screening tools for any kind of mental health issue — if not required by working in a sensitive industry — should be avoided, as they bring little value to you, the employee, that you can't get elsewhere.

Identifying Postpartum Depression at an early stage with mHealth …

However, is estimated that 10 to 15% of new adult mothers develop Postpartum Depression (PPD) within the first year after giving birth, and the percentage increases up to 26% in adolescent mothers [1]. Furthermore, a recent …

Mental Health Awareness Week – University of Saskatchewan

The first week of November marks Mental Health Awareness Week at the U of S, an initiative organized by the University of Saskatchewan Students' Union (USSU) along with many other units on campus. “This week is not …