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Rising rates of poor mental health among youth have been called a national crisis. While this is often linked to factors like the COVID-19 pandemic or poverty, some officials, like former Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, name social media as a major threat to teenagers.
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For a young person in a mental health crisis, schools, hospitals, advocacy groups, statewide organizations and community-based nonprofits in New Jersey offer a range of options. But the problem for families can often be in finding and connecting with these services.
A new website showing trends in Oregon hospital discharge data provides a hint of what emergency room physicians have long said — that the state's hospitals serve as a poorly equipped stopgap for holes in the state's behavioral health system, according to interviews.
A possible economic recession, depression, PTSD and suicidal thoughts are just some of the reasons patients are seeking out mental health counseling from an unexpected source: UF student volunteers.
Colorado farmers and ranchers lost access to a critical lifeline when the U.S. Department of Agriculture recently froze funding for a program that supports the mental health of a population whose suicide rate is at least two times higher than the average population, and whose profession is marked by uncertainties in the weather, market and cost of operating.
It could soon get easier to receive mental health support in Cook County, Illinois. Cook County Health and the National Alliance on Mental Illness Chicago are kicking off a multi-year initiative to expand efforts to increase access to mental health support across the county.
An associate professor at Harvard Medical School is suing the National Institutes of Health after her funding to study the mental health of young LGBTQ people was cut, affecting a team of 18 researchers and causing students to fear for their safety.
A study led by the Latin American Genomics Consortium (LAGC), a pioneering collaborative network co-founded and co-led by Janitza Montalvo-Ortiz, Ph.D., assistant professor of psychiatry, reveals a significant disparity in psychiatric genomics research, with more than 85% of participants in genome-wide association studies being of European ancestry.
Depression involves a complex interplay of psychological patterns, biological vulnerabilities and social stressors, making its causes and symptoms highly variable. Equally complex is the treatment of depression, which requires a highly individualized approach that may involve a combination of medication, psychotherapy and lifestyle changes.
Researchers evaluating a nature-based program of activities for patients with mild to moderate mental health conditions have shown that improvements in mood and anxiety levels can be seen in as little as 12 weeks.
In psychology, the term subjective well-being (SWB) is used to describe the extent to which different people feel happy and satisfied with their lives. While some studies have found that there is a link between SWB and the diagnosis of some psychiatric disorders, such as depression and anxiety disorders, their possible genetic commonalities have not yet been clearly delineated.
In the first comprehensive investigation into the trends of mental health diagnoses among children with public health insurance, a new study reports the percentage of mental health and neurodevelopmental disorder diagnoses increased substantially in the decade before the COVID-19 pandemic.
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