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Researchers evaluate the impact of a school-based prevention program on anxious and depressive symptoms.

Greater perceptions of discrimination during adolescence are linked to more depressive and internalizing symptoms.

New research points to numerous harmful effects of high-level lead exposure in childhood on adult mental health and personality characteristics.

Climate change-related extreme weather and increasing temperatures associated with higher rates of mental health challenges.

While well intentioned, providers and volunteers can do more harm than good at the border. The Global Psychosocial Network issues guidelines on how to work for the benefit of migrants and refugees.

A new study examines the preventative effects of cultural engagement has on depression among older adults.

Individuals diagnosed with a psychotic disorder are 4-6 times more likely than the general population to experience victimization.

Researchers outline the concept of ecologically driven grief due to climate change and recommend future research to better understand the psychological impact of climate change.

Attempting to locate the mechanisms of psychiatric disorder is a step in the wrong direction and fails to challenge potentially unjust social practices.

Already-existing ICD codes provide a diagnostic alternative to biomedical models of health by contextualizing suffering within psychosocial conditions, yet these codes are underutilized.

A new paper explores how the disputed nature of psychiatric knowledge influences public perceptions and debates within the field of mental health.

A new article suggests integrating physical activity throughout the day may help to address the mental health of students.

As an increasing amount of research seeks to address the epidemic of loneliness, conceptual clarity is needed.

Study questions how international psychiatric treatment of street children in Cairo could be reinforcing their marginality and vulnerability.

A large and rigorous meta-analysis fails to find support for the gene-environment interaction theory of depression.

A new study explores feelings of belongingness as a protective factor for childhood trauma and adult mental health outcomes.

Study highlights the importance of early interventions for institutionalized children.

As the Global Mental Health Movement attempts to address cross-cultural mental health disparities, a new article encourages integrating traditional healing practices with psychotherapy.

Benzodiazepine prescription practices may be in response to an epidemic of distress, rather than being used to treat specific mental health diagnoses.

A new study in JAMA Psychiatry investigates the relationship between trauma and psychotic experiences.

New research emphasizes the impact of school connectedness and community engagement interventions on students' mental health.

Researchers find evidence of low socio-economic status White Americans’ rising distress and declining well-being since the mid-1990s.

A letter just published in JAMA Psychiatry suggests that “precision psychiatry” is not the paradigm shift it’s purported to be by the psychiatric establishment.

Journal releases a compilation of articles detailing how zero-tolerance policy may impact mental health.

Trauma-informed approaches have the potential to promote recovery but must involve survivors and service-users to prevent the experience of retraumatization within psychiatric and mental health services.