Tag: environment

Clinical education must include more training in macro skills that help build the supports, policies, and community infrastructures under-served clients need.

Study in Brazil demonstrates how the exploration of contextual determinants of distress in mental health care can inform therapeutic change.

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

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.

Remediating dilapidated physical environments in urban settings can contribute to better mental health.

From the International Business Times: Americans are taking so many antidepressants that they are showing up in wild fish. Ten different species of fish in...

From Aeon: The World Health Organization (WHO) recently issued new guidelines requiring diseases to be named for generic descriptive terms, instead of regional or politically...

From USA Today: New research has disproved a previous study's suggestion that having cats in the home is linked to mental health problems. The new study...

For Pacific Standard, science journalist Nathan Collins uses the story of Frankenstein to describe the concept of “competitive exclusion” coming out of ecology. “We...

A new study, about to be published in the journal Brain, Behavior, and Immunity, investigates the role a stressful environment plays in antidepressant effectiveness....

In a new review for Molecular Psychiatry, psychologists Elaine Fox and Chris Beevers examine the connection between mental health genetics and cognitive biases. “'If...

“My vegetable beds have even buoyed me through more acute stressors, such as my medical internship, my daughter’s departure for college, and a loved one’s cancer treatment,” writes Dr. Daphne Miller. Now neuroscientists are attempting to study the antidepressant effects of soil microbes in hopes of unlocking the secrets of a powerful mood enhancer.

Writing for GreenBiz, Elizabeth Grossman reports on research on the increasing amounts of pharmaceuticals making their way into the environment. “They report on opiods, amphetamines and other pharmaceuticals found in treated drinking water; antibiotics in groundwater capable of altering naturally occurring bacterial communities; and over-the-counter and prescription drugs found in water leeching from municipal landfills.”