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Mental Disorder:“Health conditions involving changes in thinking, emotion or behavior (or a combination of these)…associated with distress and/or problems functioning in social, work or family activities.” (APA 2015). View article Behavioral and Psychiatric Disorders Alan D. Kaye MD, PhD, DABP...
Health disparities among older LGBTI adults in the US include higher prevalence rates of various chronic illnesses and cancers, increased participation in certain high-risk behaviors, and increased risk of being diagnosed with certain mental health disorders (Fredriksen-Goldsen et al., 2013). ...
There are many psychological mechanisms that also make an epidemiological linkage between environmental factors and mental health biologically plausible. First, lack of greenness has been widely linked to mental disorders, including depression and anxiety in adults5, and cognitive dysfunction in children6,...
Firefighters’ Mental Health Conditions.The proportion of total surveyed firefighters with any, or specific, mental health disorders (blue). The prevalence of mental health disorders in the general English population39is displayed for comparison (orange). “Any mental health condition”, “anxiety” an...
What are the consequences of mental health stigma? How to Combat Mental Health Stigma People with mental disorders have been blamed, vilified, and ostracized throughout human history. While attitudes about mental illness, and treatment for those conditions, have improved dramatically over the last ce...
Conclusion: Long-term care residents with mental health disorders experience disparities in pain and pain treatment that are not well-explained by their functioning deficits. They may benefit from more frequent, thorough pain assessments and from more varied and closely tailored pain treatment approaches...
The World Health Organization (WHO) includes mental health within the definition of health as a whole, which is not only the absence of disorders but also a spectrum of mental well-being that allows a person to manage daily life stressors, interact with others, exercise productivity, and succe...
The COVID-19 pandemic has left millions of children and adolescents grieving the sudden death of a grandparent. Yet, we lack knowledge of themental healthimplications of a grandparent's death for youth. This study uses longitudinal data to examine if the loss of a grandparent increases adolesc...
Schwartz also explained how "using language around mental illness as a source of mockery is hurtful to those who experience mental illnesses." He points out that while no one sees humor in someone having a stroke or cancer, it's often allowable toridiculethose with a mental health condition....