Feature Channels: Mental Health

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Carin & Roger Ehrenberg Continue Foundational Support for the Human Dimension Program at Hackensack Meridian School of Medicine with $3 Million Gift

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Traditional police training lacks practical tools for handling mental health crises, leaving officers underprepared. New research provides a promising avenue for addressing this gap using VR training by immersing officers in realistic scenarios.

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In response to the increasing volume and accessibility of video content for youth on streaming channels and various online platforms, the American Psychological Association has issued its first ever set of recommendations to help parents, policymakers and tech companies empower teens to manage their viewing habits.

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In the United States, there are currently more adults living with cerebral palsy than children. Despite this, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention still label cerebral palsy as “the most common motor disability in childhood.”

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The U.S. Department of Education has awarded Binghamton University Community Schools (BUCS) a five-year grant, totaling more than $4.5 million, to expand mental health services in Chenango County as part of its Mental Health Service Provider Demonstration Grant Program. This initiative, entitled Empowering Rural Communities: Promoting Mental Health, Equity, and Wellbeing Through a University-assisted Community Schools Approach, will expand social work support to students and families in the Norwich and Oxford school districts with the ability to serve 2,310 students and their families.

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New research published in JAMA Network Open from Keck Medicine of USC, which includes USC Norris Comprehensive Cancer Center, suggests that among all cancer survivors, male adolescents or young adults (AYA) have the highest rate of death by suicide.

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Recent research from the University of Georgia suggests the unique stresses from farm life may be taking a toll on one of the pillars of the families that make your dinners possible: the women who keep farming families running.

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As scientists across every field grapple with what AI will mean for their work, physician scientist Michael Halassa, an associate professor of neuroscience at Tufts University School of Medicine, is focused on how it could transform the study of cognitive processing, mental illness, and psychiatric medicine.

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A new blood test developed at The Ohio State University College of Nursing – in collaboration with The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center – is the first of its kind to potentially predict the risk for preterm birth in early pregnancy, one of the leading causes of childhood death worldwide.

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Computer-assisted cognitive-behavior therapy (CCBT) and mobile mental health applications warrant continued development and ongoing efforts to increase acceptance among patients and clinicians, according to a review published in the Journal of Psychiatric Practice®, part of the Lippincott portfolio from Wolters Kluwer.

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Variation in the Measurement of Sexual Orientations is Associated with Sexual Orientation-related Mental Health Disparities

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A new study demonstrates the effectiveness of a gamified app in easing depression symptoms by breaking negative thought patterns.

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Researchers from the Center for Injury Research and Policy of the Abigail Wexner Research Institute at Nationwide Children’s Hospital analyzed six years of multistate child death review data from the United States and found that 81% of sexual and gender diverse youth in the dataset died by suicide, despite many receiving current or prior mental health services.

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The Cal State Fullerton Police Department and Counseling and Psychological Services, or CAPS, have earned a more than $549,000 Department of Justice grant to assist Titans experiencing a mental health crisis.

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ARRIVE Together of Middlesex County, NJ, run by University Behavioral Health Care (UBHC) at Rutgers Health, has expanded its partnerships to include the East Brunswick, South River and Cranbury police departments, making New Jersey the first state in the nation to have a statewide law enforcement and mental health alternative response program.