“I Cried Every Day at Work”: Mental Health Among Doctors
FromĀ The Guardian: Doctors are increasingly experiencing mental health issues due to the unrelenting pressure, inhumane working hours, brutal competition, and workplace bullying that is...
Lay Health Worker Intervention Effective at Decreasing Symptoms
Compared with standard care, results of a lay health worker intervention in Zimbabwe suggest that this is effective for reduction of common mental health symptoms
Protecting the LGBT Community is Good Health Policy
FromĀ The Hill: Research shows that LGBTĀ individuals experience higherĀ rates of physical and mental health problems than heterosexual people. Legislative policies that protect the rights of...
A Nurse’s Response to the Power Threat Meaning Framework
In this piece for theĀ Critical Mental Health Nurses' Network, Jonathan Gadsby speaks to the potential of the Power Threat Meaning Framework to transform the...
Study Investigates Long-Term Effects of Social and Emotional Learning Programs
Social and Emotional Learning (SEL) programs have gained popularity in U.S. schools in recent years. A new study examines the nature and longevity of their impact on students.
Suicide Rate for Teen Girls Hits 40-Year High
FromĀ TIME: According to the Centers of Disease Control and Prevention, the suicide rate among teen girls reached a 40-year high in 2015. From 2007...
Antidepressants and Withdrawal: Readers Tell Their Stories
More than 8,000 people responded to the recentĀ New York Times article on antidepressant withdrawal. Here, reporter Benedict Carey describes differences in the way various...
Do Some Trauma Survivors Cope by Overworking?
FromĀ The Atlantic: Like other addictions, workaholism may be a response to trauma. Overworking isĀ the way that some trauma survivors cope with hypervigilance, grief, and...
Scientists Start to Tease Out the Ways Racism Hurts Health
FromĀ NPR: Scientists are beginning to understand the subtle ways that experiences of racism and discrimination affect people's health on both a physiological and psychological...
FĆ©lix Guattari: Origins in Trotskyism and Psychoanalysis
In this piece forĀ Non.copyriot.com, Andrew Ryder discusses the life and ideas of the psychotherapist, philosopher, and activist FĆ©lix Guattari, whose work united many of...
New Podcast – is it Really Mental Illness?
From theĀ University of Liverpool News: In a new podcast, Dr. Peter Kinderman, the vice-president of the British Psychological Society, argues that emotional distress is...
Connections Between Climate Change Concerns, Mental Health, and Pro-Environmental Actions
Concerns about the impact of climate change on animals and nature results in more effective coping to reduce hopelessness about climate change and promotes pro-environmental behaviors.
Big New Study Challenges a Genetic Link to Stress, Depression
FromĀ Psych Central: A new meta-analysis found no evidence for a previously reported connection between the serotoninĀ gene, depression, and stress.
"For years, scientists have been trying...
Why We’ve Been Thinking About Madness All Wrong
In this interview forĀ Pacific Standard, David Dobbs, who profiled Nev Jones this month, discusses the ways that the mental health community is beginning to...
Stories from the Psych Ward: Why Drugs Aren’t the Cure
In this piece forĀ Elephant Journal, one man tells his story of being locked up and forcibly drugged in the psych ward, and how he...
We Need to Broaden the Philosophical Landscape of Social Work
In this piece forĀ Community Care, Anjum Shah argues that social work academics need to pay more attention to the work of the philosopher Frantz...
Why Loneliness Affects so Many Young People
FromĀ Vice: The importance placed on self-sufficiency, extreme individualism, and competitive self-interest in our society has contributed to widespread loneliness among millennials.
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Problem Behaviors are Medicalized in White Children and Criminalized in Black Children
Race often determines whether school punishment or therapy and drugs will be used to address childrenās problem behaviors.
More Physical Activity-Based Mental Health Interventions Needed in Schools
What physical activity-based programs are being implemented in schools, how are they being researched, and what kind of impact have they made?
Susie Orbach’s Guide to Books to Understand Yourself
In this pieceĀ forĀ The Guardian, Susie Orbach argues that we should not turn to the DSM to understand ourselves, but instead to the work of...
Blaming Mental Health Won’t Solve Gun Violence, Says APsaA
According to a new statement released by the American Psychoanalytic Association (APsaA), the causes of firearm violence are complex and multifactorial, and gun violence...
The Power Threat Meaning Framework One Year On
The team that developed the Power Threat Meaning framework as a diagnostic alternative reflects on the response to the framework after one year.
Multisystemic Therapy No More Effective than Standard Care for Antisocial Behavior
Study counters previous evidence supporting multisystemic therapy, finding adolescents are just as likely to have out-of-home placements when receiving multisystemic therapy versus management as usual.
Why Society Drives You Mad
In this video forĀ IAI TV, clinical psychologist and vocal critic of psychiatry Richard Bentall reveals why structural inequality, institutional racism, and systemic oppression play...
Your ZIP Code Might Impact Your Health as Much as Your Genes
FromĀ NPR:Ā Doctors and healthcare professionals are increasingly recognizing the importance of social factorsĀ to patients' health. Some hospitals and providers are now asking patients for information...
