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Meta-analysis gives updated recovery and remission rates for persons identified as having a first-episode psychosis and those diagnosed with schizophrenia.

Researchers parse out factors within urbanicity that leads to risk for psychotic experiences.

China Mills raises concerns that global mental health movements obscure social determinants of health and naturalize Western mental health concepts.

Depression, serious psychological distress, and suicide attempts have risen substantially since the early 2000s among young adults – what’s changed?

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

Scholars contend that stigma functions as a mechanism of power in analysis of UK Heads Together mental health campaign.

A new study suggests proximity to green space as a child is linked to lower rates of mental health issues in adulthood.

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.

Loneliness has been linked to negative health outcomes, but there are no interventions clearly proven to ‘fix’ the problem.

“Overall, this study showed that the information and awareness campaign had almost no significant effects on the general public's attitudes toward people affected by either schizophrenia or depression,” the researchers, led by German medical sociologist Anna Makowski, wrote. “One could assume that deeply rooted convictions cannot be modified by rather time-limited and general activities targeted at the public.”

Dr. Dainius Pūras argues that the status quo in mental health treatment is no longer acceptable and demands political action to promote human rights.

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

How does social network site use influence well-being? Researchers suggest this depends on the extent to which site use is “connection-promoting."

A new review in BMJ investigates overdiagnosis in primary care settings, where the majority of mental health care is provided in the U.S.

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

In many respects it is difficult to fault the report Understanding Psychosis and Schizophrenia, recently published by the British Psychological Society (BPS) and the Division of Clinical Psychology (DCP)[i]; indeed, as recent posts on Mad in America have observed, there is much to admire in it. Whilst not overtly attacking biomedical interpretations of psychosis, it rightly draws attention to the limitations and problems of this model, and points instead to the importance of contexts of adversity, oppression and abuse in understanding psychosis. But the report makes only scant, fleeting references to the role of cultural differences and the complex relationships that are apparent between such differences and individual experiences of psychosis.

Researchers argue that blaming climate change inaction on psychological barriers ignores the effects of neoliberal capitalism and social structures.

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

A new study, published in BMJ Open-Access this week, found a significant link between the level of air pollution in a community and the mental health of the children living there. After controlling for socio-economic status and other potential variables, researchers in Sweden discovered a strong association between the concentration of air pollution in a neighborhood and the amount of ‘antipsychotic’ and psychiatric drugs prescribed to children. The link remained strong even at pollution levels well below half of what is considered acceptable by the World Health Organization (WHO).

Researchers develop a novel approach to mapping personal well-being networks for those diagnosed with severe mental illness (SMI) that incorporates social ties, connections to place, and meaningful activities.

A new study investigates the relationships between early-home environmental factors and later-life physiological response to psychosocial stressors.

Structural competency in psychiatry emphasizes the social factors shaping patient presentations and encourages physician advocacy.

False beliefs about biological differences between races are associated with a failure to provide recommended pain treatments to Black people.

A new study finds that sponsors of clinical trials in the EU continue to fail at reporting their results as required by recent legislation.

Social determinants have been seen to have an equal, if not greater, influence on health as individual behaviors, yet this evidence is largely ignored. Researchers investigate why this is the case.