Category Archives: Mental Health

Dignity Health and the UniHealth Foundation announced a $4 million grant program Wednesday aimed at providing mental-health awareness training for Southern California school staffers and parents. The Cultural Trauma and Mental Health Resiliency Project is aimed at adults who regularly interact with youth, "particularly youth of color," to detect signs of mental distress and help them cope with trauma. "Our health is affected by poverty, racism, adverse childhood experiences and violence," said Dr. Continue reading →

45,390 American adults died from suicide in 2017, including 6,139 U.S. Continue reading →

Living space inside the new $10 million Behavioral Health Care Center at Northern Rivers Family of Services on Thursday, Sept. 26, 2019, in Albany, N.Y. Continue reading →

A new study has found that managers with access to mental health training in their workplaces have an improved understanding of mental health overall and that they actively work to help prevent mental health issues in the people they manage. In Sweden, managers are meant to take responsibility for their employees not just regarding their work performance, but also in terms of their health and safety. This new study, which appears in the Journal of Occupational and Environmental Medicine, is the result of a web survey that queried 4,737 mangers in Sweden to find out how their management skills have improved their workplaces and the wellbeing of their staff Continue reading →

By Bernie Wong Movember November is widely known as Movember, attributable to the organization thats dedicated to raising awareness about health issues specific to men such as prostate cancer, testicular cancer, and men's suicide and mental health. When it comes to mental health, the numbers for suicide are actually going in the wrong direction in the U.S., as well as globally, shared Mark Hedstrom, Movembers U.S. executive director Continue reading →

BOULDER, Colo. -- Researchers at the University of Colorado Boulder may have come up with a way to help people discreetly seek help for mental health. An app that could change the way clinicians diagnose mental illness. Continue reading →

A privately run mental health unit has been banned from admitting new patients after inspectors found numerous safety failings, one of which led to a resident dying by hanging. Continue reading →

Harvard students experience significantly higher rates of depression and anxiety than the Center for Disease Control and Preventions reported national average, according to mental health survey results conducted by Harvard University Health Services in 2017 and 2018. Outgoing Harvard University Health Services Director Paul J. Barreira said in an interview Tuesday that the mental health surveys included College freshmen, as well as five departments within the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences Continue reading →

One of the Maryland volleyball teams former competitors returned to the Xfinity Center Monday night, but this time, she came as an ally. Recent University of Southern California graduate Victoria Garrick invited Maryland student-athletes to invest in their minds by removing the stigma around mental health and seeking professional help to deal with the pressures and anxieties that accompany playing a collegiate sport. Revisiting the court reminded Garrick of how far she has come in her mental health journey, which she now talks about on her podcast, RealPod, and through her nonprofit, The Hidden Opponent. Continue reading →

American millennials aren't exactly the picture of health. Continue reading →