Depression in African Americans, according to Sirry Alang, assistant professor of sociology and anthropology at Lehigh University, is expressed in ways that are inconsistent with symptoms of depression laid out in the Diagnostic ...
Jun 22, 2016
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(HealthDay)—Pediatricians in the United States already ask parents about their child's sleep, diet and developmental milestones. Soon, they'll add poverty to the well-visit checklist.
Mar 9, 2016
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Community mental health clinics, where most specialty mental health treatment is delivered, have been relying more on independent contractors to treat patients, largely for budgetary reasons. Many of these clinics have simultaneously ...
Mar 9, 2016
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Bullying and discrimination by NHS managers has led to absences among mental health workers, and past policies have failed to stop this, research shows.
Jan 14, 2016
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People who are diagnosed with mental health conditions did not see improvements in coordination and quality of care as hoped but did not experience large cuts in access as some had feared under an early alternative payment ...
Dec 7, 2015
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(HealthDay)—Disaster response plans need to place more emphasis on the needs of children, a new American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP) policy statement says.
Oct 19, 2015
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A large-scale epidemiological study led by researchers from King's College London has found an increase in psychotic symptoms amongst adults in rural Kenya between 2004 and 2013. These findings could reflect the mental health ...
May 27, 2015
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As the United States population has doubled since 1955, the number of inpatient psychiatric beds in the United States has been cut by nearly 95 percent to just 45,000, a wholly inadequate equation when considering that there ...
Jan 21, 2015
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Kristina Rhodes loves helping families with autistic children. But she may have to cut back her hours as an early-intervention therapist because her own autistic son, Erik, 10, isn't thriving in school.
Jun 20, 2014
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Costs for a lifetime of support for each individual with autism spectrum disorder may reach $2.4 million, according to a new study from researchers from the Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania and ...
Jun 9, 2014
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