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Language Matters When Referring to Mental Illness | Psych Central …

New research suggests even subtle differences in how you refer to people with mental illness can affect levels of tolerance. In a first-of-its-kind study,

Why We Need to Abandon the Disease-Model of Mental Health Care

… about the nature and origins of mental health problems. We need wholesale and radical change, not only in how we understand mental health problems, but also in how we design and commission mental health services.

The Politics of Mental Illness: Chicken Soup for the Mind | World of …

Want a bigger head scratcher than your daily Sudoku game? Presidential candidates' ambivalence toward mental health. Forget defunding Planned Parenthood or denouncing the Syrian refugee crisis, presidential …

Award recognizes state efforts to make mental health care available …

Earlier this fall, at the Minnesota Association of Deaf Citizens' biennial conference in St. Cloud, the Minnesota Department of Human Services' (DHS) mental health program for people who are deaf, deafblind and hard of hearing was honored …

Feminist: 'Science' Says There Are Zero Links Between Abortion and …

To demonstrate the past rebuttals of the link between abortion and mental health problems, Marcotte provides a link to a summarization of the American Psychological Association (APA)'s Executive Summary of the APA Task …