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Mental health conditions such as anxiety and depression make up the largest disability segment in the world. Centering people, not technology While discussions of technology often revolve around what a feature or app can do, we have learned that starting the discussion about the person who will ...
Winning Social Security Disability income for a mental illness comes with special challenges: You must prove your case is severe enough that you can’t work, but mental health problems can look different in different people. Medical professionals may not be able to find a clear cause of your ...
most experts agree that there is more to being mentally healthy. The U.S. Surgeon General has defined mental health as "a state of successful performance of mental function, resulting in productive activities, fulfilling relationships with people, and the ability to adapt to change and to cope ...
–The purpose of this paper is threefold: to document the relationship between intellectual disability (ID) and psychopathology; to raise awareness of the ongoing lag in professional training for psychologists in the area of mental health treatment for people with intellectual disabilities; and, to pr...
PURPOSE: The purpose of this study was to assess disability and the physical and mental health status 1 year after traumatic brain injury (TBI), using the International Classification of Functioning, Disability and Health (ICF) as a conceptual model for understanding TBI disability. METHODS: A pro...
The Irish College of Psychiatrists recently reported that u201cthe needs of people with learning disability and offending behaviour pose a huge challenge to service providers. The vulnerability of people with a learning disability who come into contact with the criminal justice system is well described...
As the Center for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) reports, mental illness is the leading cause of disability in Canada, and wait lists for services are far too long. For each person with a debilitating mental illness, there are family members—biological, legal or chosen—doing their best...
Globally, it is responsible for more ‘years lost’ to disability than any other condition. This is largely because so many people suffer from it — some 350 million, according to the World Health Organization — and the fact that it lasts for many years. (When ranked by disability and ...