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• The Carter Center’s Mental Health Program

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 601
  Last week while attending the 25th Annual Rosalynn Carter Symposium on Mental Health Policy, I had the pleasure of sitting down and chatting for a few moments with Thomas Bornemann, Ed.D. who has served as the Director of The Carter Center Mental Health Program for the past seven years. If you didn’t know, The ...
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• In Honor of Veterans, 2009

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 601
  This Veterans Day, as we honor the sacrifices made by soldiers who’ve served and those who continue to do so, we mark the 91st anniversary of the end of World War I. It seems so long ago to most of us — ancient history. Yet history is a teacher and if we don’t listen, we’re bound to repeat the same mistakes. ...
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• What Health Care Reform Means for Mental Health

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 601
  Now that it looks like some form of health care reform will be passed this year — barring a catastrophe like Joe Lieberman — we have some idea of how the eventual act will affect mental health services. All of the plans now under consideration will mean some real improvements for mental health consumers, and ...
  2 weeks ago

• Mental Health Services

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  It is an established fact that almost two-thirds of all people afflicted with some kind of mental dysfunction do not seek treatment. This is confirmed by the WHO?s Global Burden of Disease study.The reasons for that people do not seek treatment vary, but some of the most common ones are a fear of the social [...]
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• Mental Health

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  It would appear that at some point after World War I, real mental health became something of a luxury. The absence of any real mental disease like schizophrenia or dementia certainly is not an indicator of complete mental health any longer. The boom in knowledge of human psychology that began in the 1960s has made ...
  3 weeks ago

• What Forces Cause Eating Disorders?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  The aspiration of women in many from all over the world, especially in those that are more westernized, to be thin, skinny, and slender is evident and visible in everyday life. This drive and desire is fed by the many television programs, magazines, weight loss advertisements and programs that portray an ideal figure ...
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• A Recovery for Americans’ Mental Health

  
  Blogs — Authority: 162
  As Congress and the administration consider a new stimulus, they need to repair the recessions damage to Americans mental health. We are seeing what weve known for decades: job losses and economic uncertainty increase the rate of psychiatric symptoms, the rate for suicide and the demand for mental health services. ...
  3 weeks ago

• Depression In Teenagers & Children

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  DEPRESSION in Teenagers and ChildrenA while ago I did a blog about Adult depression. While doing the research on Adult depression, I learned quite a bit of information about depression in general, in addition to what I already knew because I suffer from this condition myself. What I didn’t know, however, is just how ...
  3 weeks ago

• Wheres the Outrage 168 - Kids Affected With Repeat Deployments

  
  Sir! No Sir! Exposing and Debunking Military Lies from Vietnam to Iraq — Authority: 137
  This article, by Elizabeth M. Collins, was distributed by the Army News Service, October 13, 2009 The increasing mental-health needs of military children are taxing both the military and civilian health care systems. The Army psychiatrist in charge of the Military Child and Adolescent Center of Excellence at Madigan ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hogg awards $386,000 in bilingual scholarships

  
  News from The University of Texas at Austin — Authority: 557
  The Hogg Foundation for Mental Health is working to expand Spanish-language mental health services in Texas by awarding $386,000 in full-tuition scholarships to 22 bilingual graduate social work students across the state.To begin addressing the states shortage of bilingual mental health workers, the Hogg Foundation ...
  3 weeks ago

• Overcoming Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 510
  Identifying DepressionDepression, like most mental illness runs the continuum of severity. It can be mild or major. It can last from weeks to months. It can involve anxiety symptoms as well. Depression is primarily characterized by sadness and/or loss of pleasure in nearly all activities. Additionally, there may be ...
  4 weeks ago

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