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Latest Mental Health News
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News articles on mental health, psychology, psychiatry updated daily. Get the latest mental health news on HealthyPlace.com

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  • Shortage of military therapists creates strain
    November 07, 2009 WASHINGTON - Amputations. Combat stress. Divorce. Suicide. For every physical and mental strain on service members, there's often a military therapist at their side.
  • Mental-health professionals speculate on what went wrong
    November 07, 2009 Nov. 7--As an Army psychiatrist, Maj. Nidal Malik Hasan treated soldiers with post-traumatic stress and mental disorders.
  • Mental-health help on college campuses increases
    November 02, 2009 Nov. 2--Mental-health counselors at La Salle University were feeling overwhelmed, their appointment books packed with students in need of help, seemingly more so than ever.
  • Stereotypes can fuel teen misbehavior
    October 16, 2009 WINSTON-SALEM, N.C., Oct 16, 2009 /PRNewswire-USNewswire via COMTEX/ -- Drinking. Drugs. Caving into peer pressure. When parents expect their teenagers to conform to negative stereotypes, those teens are in fact more likely to do so, according to new research by professor of psychology Christy Buchanan.
  • US to ease way for veterans to get stress help
    October 14, 2009 WASHINGTON - Female soldiers and others serving in dangerous roles behind the front lines in Iraq and Afghanistan have long complained it was hard to prove their combat experience when applying for disability for post-traumatic stress disorder.

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  • World's Leading Experts In Schizophrenia To Meet At 26th Annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference Nov. 13
    Internationally renowned experts in schizophrenia and other psychotic disorders, researchers and clinicians, patients and their families and friends will gather in Pittsburgh to discuss the latest in research and clinical advances at the 26th Annual Pittsburgh Schizophrenia Conference to be held Friday, Nov. 13, at the Sheraton Station Square, Pittsburgh.
  • States Struggle With Immigrants' Care And Funding Mental Hospitals
    News outlets report on a variety of health issues at the state level including immigrants' challenges when trying to access new care in Massachusetts and a proposal by employees to cut some services but keep open a mental hospital in Maryland. The Boston Globe reports: Gov.
  • UK Puts Mental Health Of Refugees And Asylum Seekers At Risk
    Mind has found evidence that the UK's complex asylum seeker process, detention centres and aspects of UK life are actively worsening the mental health of refugees and asylum seekers. In two new reports, the charity shows how a lack of support and resources for refugees and asylum seekers is both exacerbating pre-existing mental health conditions and triggering them in the first place. In the
  • Mental Health America Praises House Health Reform Bill
    Mental Health America today praised the House health reform bill (the Affordable Health Care for Americans Act, H.R. 3962) for taking ground-breaking steps to expand coverage and significantly improving access to mental health and substance use disorder treatment services.
  • Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative Can Reduce Violence And Promote Safer Schools
    In the wake of several recent highly-publicized stories about violence among school-aged children, a new report shows that school districts participating in the Safe Schools/Healthy Students Initiative substantially improved the safety of their students.

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