Systemic racism, the COVID health crisis and an economic meltdown are the cataclysmic events that have caused significant increases in mental health and substance‐related disorders in the United States this year, according to a new report released Aug. 24 by the American Mental Health Counselors ...
Careful attention should be paid to the numbers of people who present themselves in a crisis and consideration given to whether we can better organise and coordinate our existing services to meet their needs. We need to do something about the immense variation in the provision of social ...
Results from a recent Centers for Disease Control and Prevention survey add to the evidence thatteen mental healthis in crisis, with particularly concerning numbers surrounding teen girls. The survey foundaround 1 in 3 high school girlsin the U.S. have seriously considered attempting suicide and m...
vulnerability is normalized as a strength and powerful tool for self-acceptance. Celebrities addressing heavier issues creates a seismic shift in the larger mental health conversation at a time when it is needed the most.
Crisis hotlines saw their numbers spike before and after Election Day. Credit: Cavan Images via Cavan / Getty Images The 2024 election may be over, but its effect on some people's mental health is starting to become clear. Two major crisis hotlines saw huge increases in contact before and ...
"These numbers may not be perfect" Vibrant's white paper focuses on two snapshots of data that come largely from when the line was a 1-800 number, before the nationwide launch of the easier-to-remember 988 shortcut to reach a counselor during a mental health crisis. ...
What's behind the crisis in teen mental health? 326 1 视频 AyoSeki Transcript Kim Mills: In February, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released data showing that teen girls in the U.S. are engulfed in what they called “a wave of sadness and violence.” The numbers are...
The types and numbers of stressors are also increasing. Are we too focused on keeping up with the Joneses? Is social media isolating us from reality and from one another? Are we losing our sense of family and community? Whatever the causes, our country’s mental ill health is at a ...
We conducted a primary and replicated time-series analysis of retrospectively collected data from Twitter and two London mental healthcare providers. Daily numbers of 'crisis episodes' were defined as incident inpatient, home treatment team and crisis house referrals between 2010 and 2014. Higher ...
Lucia Rahilly:How much of this diminished mental health do you attribute to the pandemic? Harold Koplewicz:The most chilling fact is that the numbers of teen suicides jumped from 2007 to 2018. And that’s before the pandemic. I think the only thing we can see that changed in society at...