While witnessing and living with the grim reality of their peers getting caught in the line of gunfire, Durham’s young people are hurting, and they are asking the community for mental health tools to help them
A current most spoken issue among the public media is gun violence or mass shooting however the crime is not as many as it was twenty years ago. The term mass shooting does not have an official set of definition yet, but the term indicates crime which is killing as many people as possib...
I have previously discussed thenegative impact of involving mental illness in politics.Every timemental illness is linked to acts of violenceby the media or politicians, the highly charged emotions of the moment can impact those with mental illness and their families. When "mental illness" is so ...
Sandy Hook Promise to support those affected by gun violence OUT Foundation to support LGBTQ+ athletes Updates on how BetterHelp continues its community support are available on itssocial impact page. Takeaway A vital mission of BetterHelp is to support individual well-being—as well as that of th...
Why Does Viewing Violence Lead to Aggression? There is strong evidence that viewing aggression on TV, playing violent video games, and exposure to violence in general tends to increase the likelihood of aggression. Butwhymight viewing violence increase aggression?
Using violence to deprive minorities of their rights has been illegal under federal law since the 1960s, but in recent years, Congress has passed legislation that makes hate crimes more serious offenses [source: Krouse]. According to the FBI, in 2008, the most recent year for which statistics...
Studies have been done to try to determine the chemical makeup that might explain why the prairie vole forms this lifelong, monogamous relationship when its very close relative, the montane vole, does not. According to studies by Larry Young, a social attachment researcher at Emory University, ...
The global body of literature on the topic of youth mental health help-seeking has provided important insight, but there is a need for further inquiry into young people’s lived experiences of managing mental health problems. Furthermore, additional understanding is required on the impact of childh...
This section presents findings on the key elements that young people have reported as being central to their mental healthcare under the central category “core needs in mental healthcare”, which has four sub-categories: 1.The services;2.The helper;3.The interventions,and 4.The impact of dev...
Trauma is experienced in many different ways. Soldiers can experience it on the battlefield, healthcare workers in hospitals and emergency rooms, and law enforcement officers when they pull out a gun. You and I can experience ...