News tagged with mental health workers
Integrating mental health care: New series
The first article in a landmark series to help health care workers and providers, donors, and decision makers understand the importance of including mental health care in global health programs is being published in this ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 30, 2013 |
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Examine social factors to explain rise in diagnoses of mental disorders, researchers say
(Medical Xpress)—Examining social factors is vital to better explaining and understanding the dramatic rise in the number of Americans diagnosed with mental disorders in recent years, according to an analysis by a team ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Apr 26, 2013 |
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Report details flaws in Army's handling of PTSD
(AP)—The Army has more than doubled its number of military and civilian behavioral health workers in the past five years, but a new report says a litany of shortcomings plagues the force when it comes to diagnosing and ...
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Mar 08, 2013 |
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School shootings: What we know and what we can do
Since the early 1970s school shootings at American elementary, secondary and higher education institutions have been a painful reality for American society. After each incident – like the recent attack in Newtown, CT – ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Dec 19, 2012 |
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Skilled migrants risk depression in low-paid jobs
(Medical Xpress) -- Skilled migrants who can't find jobs that use their education and qualifications are more likely to suffer mental health problems after three and a half years of arriving in Australia, according to a new ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Aug 07, 2012 |
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Australians work too hard: expert
(Medical Xpress) -- Overwork is significantly impacting the mental health and wellbeing of Australians, a Flinders University labour studies expert warns.
Psychology & Psychiatry
Jun 28, 2012 |
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New approach to screen pregnant women for mental health disorders
A new model of care for screening and treating women around the time of childbirth for mental health disorders shows promise according to researchers from South Africa reporting in this week's PLoS Medicine as part of the ...
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May 29, 2012 |
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Community and health system approaches improves mental health in Afghanistan
"Treatment of mental disorders within the health care system needs to be accompanied by a community-based approach that focuses on psychosocial problems," say the authors of a case study from Afghanistan published in this ...
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May 29, 2012 |
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Mental health workers: The overlooked victims of 9/11
We've all heard about the stress experienced by victims of 9/11, but have we ever paused to think about the effect of those terrorist attacks on mental health clinicians who provided care to the victims? A new study by Mary ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Mar 27, 2012 |
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Cognitive stimulation beneficial in dementia
Cognitive stimulation therapies have beneficial effects on memory and thinking in people with dementia, according to a systematic review by Cochrane researchers. Despite concerns that cognitive improvements may not be matched ...
Diseases, Conditions, Syndromes
Feb 15, 2012 |
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How to scale up mental health care
Scaling up mental health services in developing countries is an essential part of any plan to improve mental health worldwide. However recent data suggests while 1 in 3 people with a mental health problem in wealthy nations ...
Psychology & Psychiatry
Oct 16, 2011 |
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First long-term study of WTC workers shows widespread health problems
In the first long-term study of the health impacts of the World Trade Center (WTC) collapse on September 11, 2001, researchers at The Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York have found substantial and persistent mental and ...
Health
Sep 02, 2011 |
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Workplace mental health disability leave recurs sooner than physical health leave, study shows
The recurrence of an employee's medical leave of absence from work tends to happen much sooner with a mental health leave than a physical one, a Centre for Addiction and Mental Health (CAMH) study shows.
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Jun 29, 2011 |
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