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Addressing the Silent Mental Health Crisis of Children and Youth Around the World

Child Mind Intitute

This disparity especially impacts the child and adolescent population, as 90 percent of them live in LMICs (United Nations, 2011, Shinde, et al., Moreover, access to specialized mental health care and support services is limited or non-existent in many of these countries. Reliable data require reliable tools.

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Searching for the “Psychiatric Yeti”: Schizophrenia Is Not Genetic

Mad in America

And the World Health Organization has called for a transformation of mental health services to focus on person-centered and rights-based approaches. Yet laypeople, and many mental health professionals, still believe that schizophrenia is a genetic disorder. But the promised gains never materialized.

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Depression: Psychiatry’s Discredited Theories and Drugs Versus a Sane Model and Approach

Mad in America

Published in 2006 was the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) study, “ The Naturalistic Course of Major Depression in the Absence of Somatic Therapy ,” which examined depressed patients who had recovered from an initial episode of depression, then relapsed but did not take any medication following their relapse.

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Racial Gaps in Early Childhood

Kids Mental Health Info

The National Center for Children in Poverty commissioned a study, “Racial Gaps in Early Childhood: Socio-emotional Health, Developmental, and Educational Outcomes Among African-American Boys” in 2011. The post Racial Gaps in Early Childhood appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Beyond Pills: UK Parliament Must Support Social and Psychological Services Instead

Mad in America

M ost people in this room will have experienced, at some point in their life, poor or very poor mental health. And around half of those who’ve suffered a mental health problem will, have at some point, consulted the NHS for support. million in 2011 to 85.6 So, what kind of support do they invariably get?