Causation Theories

The Youth-Nominated Support Team intervention invites adolescents to select adults in their life to receive training on how to support them.

Researchers explore pathways of healing racial trauma in Latinx immigrant communities.

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

Authors propose various pathways to the phenomena of voice-hearing in clinical and nonclinical populations.

Review compares the effectiveness of pharmacological and non-pharmacological interventions for improving physical health outcomes in people diagnosed with schizophrenia.

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.

“Converging lines of evidence now suggest that depression—a common comorbidity in the setting of chronic pain—may in some patients represent an unrecognized yet potentially reversible harm of opioid therapy.”

The Psychological Injury model will triumph, not just because literally thousands of studies show how trauma and stressful life events result in mental health problems, but because at our core, we know it is true. People hurt people, and people heal people. This cracks the intellectual foundation of psychopharmacology.

A new study suggests digital media use among adolescents has a smaller negative effect on well-being than bullying or smoking marijuana.

A new article suggests counselors and psychotherapists are dissatisfied with current diagnostic systems and outlines some potential alternatives.

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.

Children who were exposed to anti-seizure drug valproate in utero were 48% more likely to develop ADHD, according to a new study.

Biologists found that exposure to antidepressants suppresses important survival behaviors in zebrafish, an effect that persisted across three generations and was found to be more severe for males.

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.

An article on contributory injustice describes the clinical and ethical imperative that clinicians listen to service users experiences.

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

A new study has found that the three most commonly-used dementia screening measures often misdiagnose patients.

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.