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How Slavery's Legacy Affects the Mental Health of Black Americans …

Events like Charleston put a spotlight on the growing body of literature that looks not only at the United States' failure to have authentic conversations about slavery and its legacy but also at the mental health impact of …

Mennonite witness leads to lasting change in US mental-health care

Barnhart, a former journalist and a freelance writer from Kansas City, Missouri, was on the Bethel College campus July 19 to present “From Resisters to Reformers: How Kansas Mennonites Changed Mental Health Care” to …

Mental Health Awareness – Fighting for Answers

We need to continue to raise awareness regarding mental health. Focus on mental health shouldn't revolve around those with real or perceived mental illness committing violent crimes. Instead, it should be brought to the …

Optimizing the treatment of schizophrenia with mobile health …

However, for the person with schizophrenia, they have the full force and impact of an ordinary experience. Hallucinations can be in any of the senses, but hearing voices is the most common. Delusions – these are false beliefs …

Mental Health 911: Areas with most calls have fewest services | WBEZ

Big cuts to mental health services have left managing mental illness to some people who never set out to do that job. People like police officers and jail staff.