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A Youth Mental Health Crisis Was Already Brewing. The Pandemic Made It Worse, Surgeon General Says.
The situation painted across the U.S. surgeon general’s 53-page advisory is dire. Compared with 2019, emergency room visits for suicide attempts rose 51 percent for adolescent girls in early 2021. Among boys, there was a
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Mental Health in a Global Pandemic: Lessons Learned From Psychological Science
Nearly 2 years into the COVID-19 pandemic, an emerging body of literature is revealing the pandemic’s mental health impact on children, adolescents, and adults, including those who had previously been diagnosed with a mental illness.
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Five Principles for a Better Post-Pandemic You
As an executive coach, I saw a troubling trend among my clients even before Covid-19: Many were exhausted and on a path to burnout, if they weren’t already there. The chief physician of a large
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I’m Not Alone In Feeling Lonely. There Are Ways to Fight Loneliness.
I am lonely. Okay, not all the time. I do have good friends, and a loving family. Heck, I even have a puppy. But I’m divorced, and several close friends — including a beloved ex
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For Many Men, Apps Can Be ‘an Important Gateway to Mental Health’
For many months during the pandemic, Jason Henderson felt lower than perhaps at any other period of his life. The 37-year-old was living in a basement apartment, newly divorced, recovering from back surgery and struggling
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New Research From Clinical Psychological Science
A sample of research on antagonism in daily life, metarepresentation and autism symptoms, computational linguistics in suicide prevention, using acoustics to predict schizotypy, a model for mental health diagnostic, and sibling alcohol use and suicide.
