Southern Illinois University Edwardsville Counseling Services strives to deliver evidence-based clinical practices, create a university-wide culture of mental health awareness and wellness, and promote an awareness of the mental health resources available on campus. Continue reading →

Life as a senior-ranking member of the royal family is a lot of work. In addition to the royal engagements and traditional duties that come with the job, however, royals have a chance to use their platform to promote the issues that matter most to them Continue reading →

It's open-enrollment season--the time whenyou can change your health care plan for the upcoming year. While all companies don't use the calendar year, many do. You should pay special attention to the mental health coverage in your chosen plan. Continue reading →

NEW DELHI: Bollywood actor Deepika Padukone's The Live Love Laugh Foundation (TLLLF) has been honoured with the Dr Guislain 'Breaking the Chains of Stigma' Award for 2019 in Ghent, Belgium on Friday. Founded by the 'Piku' actress in 2015, the non-profit organisation received the award for its efforts to change the dialogue around mental illness in India. The foundation, that was selected from among a global list of nominees by the worlds leading mental health researchers and academicians, will also get $50,000 cash prize to expand the scope of its work Continue reading →

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When uninsured students at Center Grove Community Schools experience serious mental health issues, there is not much the school district can do about it. But if voters pass a referendum in November, the school district will have the funding thats needed to hire additional counselors, social workers and other support staff to make sure every student gets the care they need, Superintendent Richard Arkanoff said. Continue reading →

An ICRC psychologist (fourth from left) helps provide post-crisis pyschosocial support to a group of survivors from a village in central Mali whose fellow villagers were massacred in a violent clash between herders and farmers. ICRC October 13, 2019 Health, Mind By Star2.com Nearly three in four millennials 73% surveyed across 15 countries said that mental health needs are as important as water, food and shelter for victims of wars and armed violence. The data, taken from an Ipsos survey commissioned by the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) of more than 15,000 people aged 20 to 35, shows growing awareness of the importance of mental health in conflict situations Continue reading →

Susan Crooks' son Walt loved music, being outside, philosophy, and teaching science and technology at Clemson - his family called him a Renaissance man. But alongside a life full of love, she tells WYFF4 that Walt also struggled."I guess it started 20 years ago with his anxiety and depression, said Crooks, And it just kinda started to show maybe even a little before that, 13, 14, and you know I had him go to a therapist, on one point they put him on a little bit of medicine, and then we did keep seeing about it."But years of doctors, medications and other treatments didn't work for him.Walt ended his life in August. He was 35 years old. Continue reading →