Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

The National Center for Children in Poverty (NCCP) collects and analyzes data and publishes a range of reports and tools on child poverty, early childhood mental health, and related issues. Low-income is defined as having income below twice the federal poverty level.

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Kids Mental Health Info

DECEMBER 9, 2014

The National Center for Children in Poverty at the Bank Street Graduate School of Education is the national leading public policy center dedicated to promoting the economic security, health, and well-being of Americas low-income families and children. Offers research and data on topics related to child and family poverty.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 5, 2024

For many years, I received mental health services and accepted the “mental illness” diagnoses, which I now call labels. I didn’t realize that others were actively fighting against what they call the mental health system or psychiatry. The mental health system is deeply ingrained in our culture.

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Centre for Mental Health

JANUARY 15, 2025

As we enter the second quarter of the 21 st century, its worth reflecting on what a challenging period this has been for mental health and local government. We provide Network members with free resources (like our guide to conducting an effective mental health needs assessment ) and other training and networking opportunities.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

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. So, what kind of support do they invariably get? They can’t bring a loved one back.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 11, 2023

The World Health Organization (WHO) guidelines on depression treatment are even more firm: “Antidepressant medications are not needed for mild depression,” according to the WHO. They can’t solve poverty or poor housing, or right the wrongs of inequality or discrimination, or resolve any other well-evidenced social determinant of poor health.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

It was written by the MISA news team to provide insight into community mental health initiatives in India. A 2020 study published in Medical Anthropology investigates the realities of community mental health initiatives like task-shifting in India. Kerala is uniquely positioned in the Indian mental health system.

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Association for Psychological Science (APS)

FEBRUARY 27, 2025

This naturally disposes us to attribute poverty , misbehavior, and low academic performance not to bad people (to lazy or incompetent dispositions) but to harmful environments. Nor is our reporting on mental health disorders and their treatment, how nature and nurture weave the human fabric, or how language develops.

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Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 29, 2024

The Child Mind Institute is proud to have founded several programs that increase mental health equity worldwide by fostering the next generation of mental healthcare professionals. It also aims to cultivate a future generation of diverse and culturally sensitive mental health care providers.

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Child Mind Intitute

OCTOBER 10, 2024

The Current Landscape: A Need for Cultural Sensitivity Children and adolescents in LMICs face severe challenges that greatly affect their mental health, including high levels of poverty, exposure to child labor, violence, conflict, and limited access to education. Yet data on their mental health needs are severely lacking.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

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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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 6, 2024

Pure portrayed Rose’s autobiographical account of finding that she had OCD, a “mental illness”, and the breakthrough that this medical framework provided her. In this interview, Cartwright charts her journey of painful and lonely disillusionment with the “mental illness” framework. This was short-lived. My OCD had relapsed.

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Child Mind Intitute

SEPTEMBER 19, 2024

Ndayiziga will take part in the Carter Centers Climate Change Mental Health Fellowship thanks to the support of the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF) as part of its Global Health Initiative (GHI). We are delighted to announce Mr. Avit Ndayiziga as our inaugural SNF Global Center Communicator Fellow.

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Mad in America

NOVEMBER 28, 2024

M any people are traumatised rather than healed by their interaction with mainstream mental health services, especially their admission to a psychiatric inpatient unit. Concurrently, many mental health professionals carry a burden of their own trauma and are not healthy individuals.

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Centre for Mental Health

MARCH 4, 2025

Forty years ago, on 1 March 1985, Centre for Mental Health was established as a charity, as the National Unit for Psychiatric Research and Development. What drives us most deeply is a relentless determination to tackle (and reduce) mental health inequality. Mental health inequalities are social and economic inequalities.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 9, 2023

To understand mental illness, we first need to understand what a person really is. Mental illness is usually caused by something happening. There are as many causes of mental illness as there are people, because each person has their own unique biology and unique destiny and way of dealing with life. W hat is a human being?

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World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

DECEMBER 14, 2023

WPA President Professor Danuta Wasserman intends for her Action Plan to boost the mental health of patients, psychiatric staff, and the general public through encouraging and enabling psychiatrists and the field of psychiatry to embrace communication, prevention, international collaboration, and a new leadership role in society.

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Child Mind Intitute

MARCH 25, 2025

If you follow Child Mind Institute news, you already know that in January we launched a free, intuitive mental health journaling app. Creating digital apps is one of the ways Child Mind Institute is demonstrating a commitment to making science-driven mental health information, resources, and care more accessible worldwide.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

You’re also an author, and you’ve written on topics such as aging, genetics, mental representation, biological functions, mechanisms in science, and the concept of information in neuroscience. So why do we call schizophrenia a mental disorder, but not believing in conspiracy theories?

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

.” Adolescent Depression & COVID-19 In OctoberDecember 2020, almost 1 in 5 adolescents (18%) perceived that the COVID-19 pandemic negatively affected their mental health “quite a bit or a lot,” and an additional 51% perceived “a little or some” negative effect on their mental health.

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Kids Mental Health Info

JUNE 9, 2023

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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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

Topics include behavioral health, demographics, schools, early childhood, poverty, equity issues, and more. appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info. A nonprofit, nonpartisan research organization that studies children, youth, and families through research, data collection, and analysis. The post Child Trends, Inc.

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Kids Mental Health Info

MAY 13, 2015

National nonprofit advocating for policies that will help all children reach their potential, on areas including child welfare, poverty, health, education, youth justice, gun violence, and racial justice. The post Childrens Defense Fund (CDF) appeared first on Kids Mental Health Info.

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Solara Mental Health

APRIL 22, 2022

Veterans are at an increased risk of homelessness due to war activity and an increased likelihood of developing mental health disorders. Other cases where veterans suffer from mental health issues that become exacerbated during the service. Many homeless veterans struggle with an addiction or a mental health disorder.

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Roland Bal - Resolving Trauma and PTSD

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

Trauma is what perpetuates violence, poverty, wars, and ongoing abuse on a micro and macro level. Trauma is often the cause of many of the chronic health issues that plague our societies. Trauma is at the root of the many mental/emotional disorders that we have today. Trauma is the gateway to addiction. It is actual.

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Mad in America

JULY 17, 2024

Neil’s new book, “Sons, Daughters, and Sidewalk Psychotics: Mental Illness and Homelessness in Los Angeles,” published by the University of Chicago Press, offers a detailed look into the starkly different worlds of mental health care in Los Angeles. How do these disparate systems reflect our societal values?

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Centre for Mental Health

APRIL 4, 2025

Harris’ story Social workers can be a lifeline for people living with severe mental illness. Taking a social approach looking at peoples broader needs in terms of housing, employment, rights, and navigating health systems they make a big difference to peoples quality of life. Around a third are not in secure accommodation.

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Mad in America

APRIL 24, 2024

As a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Kleinman has profoundly influenced how medical professionals understand the interplay between culture, illness, and healing. Listen to the audio of the interview here.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 26, 2025

R ob Wipond is known for his critical work on mental health, psychiatry, and civil rights. The legal criteria to detain and forcibly drug people under mental health laws have broadened a lot, and the best data we have shows that rates of psychiatric incarcerations have been rising for decades.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Peruvian reform is especially good regarding legal capacity, but it has not included the issue of healthcare and it has not addressed the short-term involuntary measures in the mental health system that are still in place.

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Mad in America

MARCH 19, 2024

We were living in poverty with my siblings and life was difficult. I have also learnt so many things about mental health and my hope for the future has increased. I wish to run a master’s programme in child and adolescent mental health to further equip me to help this set of people but I do not have the financial capacity.

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Mad in America

JANUARY 20, 2024

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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Centre for Mental Health

DECEMBER 19, 2024

The former describes its purpose as being to enable everyone to have the opportunity of secure, rewarding and fulfilling work and it details the Governments plans across a range of areas including education and training, employment support, health care, and the role of employers.

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 31, 2024

However, the NIMHs tight focus on funding genetic research has also prevented the exploration of the known psychological causes of schizophrenia, such as the impact of trauma, isolation, and poverty. Primary care doctors are the rank and file of health care. A groundbreaking study led by Rachel E. That has not happened.

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Mad in America

SEPTEMBER 13, 2024

They advised me that if I followed their recommended protocols of therapy and pharmacology, I would inevitably be led, like an obedient Kool-Aid sheep, to better emotional, psychological, and physical health. I was considered ‘mentally unstable’ because an unqualified crisis line volunteer disclosed false information to the police.

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

I n 1999, New York State passed the first Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) law, which creates a regime of civil courts to force psychiatric interventions on those found to have “serious and persistent mental illness” who “struggle to engage voluntarily” with care. What made this year different?

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Mad in America

DECEMBER 3, 2024

Research into Adverse Childhood Experiences (ACEs) has uncovered startling connections between trauma and long-term health behaviors. ACE scores measure the impact of adverse childhood experiences, such as abuse, neglect, or household dysfunction, on long-term health and behavior.

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