Break the stigma with free online mental health courses for positive change! The conversation around mental health is evolving, and the healthcare industry is growing rapidly in this domain. Gone are the days of dismissive phrases like 'Get over it' for depression or labelling anxious individuals...
Education as well as contact with people with mental health problems may improve stigmatization. The present pilot study tested the efficacy of an online interactive educational intervention that utilizes avatars depicting distressed individuals on stigmatizing attitudes toward mental illness and help-...
Mental Health Courses:Mental health courses help employees identify mental health challenges, reduce the stigma associated with these issues, and learn strategies for managing stress, anxiety, and depression. Workplace Bullying and Harassment Prevention Courses:These courses empower employees to identify, p...
Q&A: Combating prostate cancer stigma When U.S. Defense Secretary Lloyd Austin was diagnosed with prostate cancer, his illness was largely kept quiet from the public. Though Austin faced scrutiny for not being more forthcoming about his health, experts like Daniela ... ...
Mindfulness-based intervention (MBI) is an approach that focuses on the cultivation of conscious awareness, and orientation towards the present moment with curiosity and openness, which has been shown helpful in the treatment of mental health [17,18,19,20]. Unlike behavioral therapy, which ...
immigrants regarding the impact of mental health stigma and discrimination on stress and depression as well as predictors of immigrant use of online mental health/therapy applications and online mental health support communities. The study findings revealed that when controlling for number of years ...
[72] identify a need to also tackle broader issues; for example, about how online health and wellbeing cultures are oftentimes based on unsubstantiated and simplistic claims about the benefits of dieting that perpetuate weight stigma. They discuss the Health at Every Size movement, which challenges...
Results suggest that mental health trainees and professionals had less stigmatizing attitudes than did non-mental-health trainees and professionals. Professionals receiving supervision had higher mean scores on the Benevolence subscale than did professionals who were not receiving supervision. Implications ...
For many people and many mental health issues, yes. Online therapy has been shown to be just as effective as in-person therapy in treating a wide variety of mental health issues, including depression, anxiety, and addiction. It is not recommended for more serious mental health issues, like ...
Health-related stigma as a determinant of functioning in young adults with narcolepsy. PLoS ONE 2015, 10, e0122478. [Google Scholar] [CrossRef] Raggi, A.; Plazzi, G.; Ferri, R. Health-related quality of life in patients with narcolepsy: A review of the literature. J. Nerv. Ment. ...