Psychology & Psychiatry

Building 'bravery muscles' to fight rising youth anxiety

Amid the ongoing mental health crisis among America's youth, the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force issued a draft recommendation earlier this year that physicians begin screening children as young as 8 for anxiety. R. Meredith ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Task force recommends anxiety screening for all adults under 65

In what amounts to a public acknowledgement that anxiety disorders have run rampant during the pandemic, an influential expert panel is recommending for the first time that all American adults under the age of 65 be screened ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Q&A: Back-to-school anxiety

DEAR MAYO CLINIC: I have two sons, ages 5 and 14. My eldest is always excited to start school and have new adventures. My younger son will begin kindergarten this year. Although he went to day care part time, he has begun ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Minorities bore disproportionate mental health impact of pandemic

Racial and ethnic minorities bore a disproportionate mental health burden during the COVID-19 pandemic, according to a new study published this week in the open-access journal PLOS ONE by Andrew Chan of Harvard Medical School, ...

Psychology & Psychiatry

Feeling overwhelmed? Try microdosing bravery

Like many who struggle with anxiety, professor Kristen Lee found herself living in a "what if" perspective. "What if the pandemic hadn't happened? What if there's even more trauma around the corner?"

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Mental health services underused in aged care

Fewer than 3% of people with mental health conditions living in Australian residential aged care facilities accessed government-subsidized mental health services, a new analysis from Flinders University and the South Australian ...

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