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Teenage boys are drowning in just as much of the depression and anxiety that's been well documented in girls. Experts warn that many young men struggling with their mental health are left undetected and without the help they need. "We are right to be concerned about girls," said Kathleen Ethier, director of the Division of Adolescent and School Health at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
In the struggle to keep mental health manageable, a new entry is showing promising results. It's an app that you can use and it uses science to give you an idea of how you are doing. You can tell someone how you are feeling and maybe they can try to put a shine on a dreary condition but now, there's an app that can hear it in your voice.
A Camden County, New Jersey, municipal court program designed to connect people living with addiction to treatment and social services is expanding to include mental health support. Project SAVE, which recently hit a milestone of receiving more than 10,000 referrals to help people, now includes two mental health navigators who can offer additional treatment options for people living with co-occurring substance use and mental health disorders.
Schools across Maine report that mental health challenges continue to be one of the biggest problems for students. A statewide survey last year found that 35% of high schoolers had felt sad or hopeless for at least two weeks in a row. And mental health care providers says there is clear evidence of an increase in an array of indicators since the pandemic.
Brothers Marichal and Rodney Brown follow in their father's footsteps at their HAIRitage barbershop on Sacramento, California's Broadway. Earlie D. Brown was a certified master barber in their Bay Area hometown who counted San Francisco Giants' players among his clientele — he even named son Marichal for family hero and Giants' Hall of Fame pitcher Juan Marichal.
Secretary of the Navy Carlos Del Toro established and held the Department of the Navy's first Integrated Resilience and Mental Health Forum, March 15. The inaugural meeting aimed to foster meaningful discussion across DON stakeholders, enhance the visibility of ongoing and new Navy and Marine Corps initiatives, and cultivate an environment for dialogue centered on mental health and resilience practices.
The new season of PBS NewsHour's Student Reporting Labs podcast "On Our Minds" is underway. In this episode of the series that focuses on mental health challenges among young people, Bree Campbell and James Kim speak with U.S. Surgeon General Dr. Vivek Murthy.
Media and anti-stigma activities could help combat mental health stigma and discrimination, but only with lived experience involvement, according to research led by the Institute of Psychiatry, Psychology & Neuroscience (IoPPN) at King's College London in collaboration with the Global Mental Health Peer Network.
Researchers at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) have discovered that symptoms of attention-deficit/hyperactivity disorder (ADHD) are tied to atypical interactions between the brain's frontal cortex and information processing centers deep in the brain. The researchers examined more than 10,000 functional brain images of youth with ADHD and published their results in the American Journal of Psychiatry.
The evidence on the impacts of climate change on mental health and wellbeing is growing rapidly. The objective of this scoping review is to understand the extent and type of existing mental health and psychosocial interventions aimed at addressing the mental health and psychosocial impacts of climate change. A scoping review methodology was followed.
A trio of mental and physical health researchers with University College Cork's School of Public Health, has found evidence of poorer mental health in middle-aged to older people with obesity, independent of disease and lifestyle factors. In their paper published on the open-access site PLOS ONE, Caoimhe Lonergan, Sean Millar, and Zubair Kabi, describe how they analyzed health data for more than 1,800 adult volunteers comparing BMI scores and mental health scores.
Discussion around mental health challenges in the workplace, including both poor mental health and chronic mental illness, has never been more important. In a survey conducted by the American Psychological Association, over 90% of people said that it was important for them to work for an organization that values their psychological well-being.