Mental Health and Illness
Mental health may be measured in terms of an individual's abilities to think and communicate clearly, learn and grow emotionally, deal productively and realistically w...
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Mental Health
One of the most studied and, at times, most misunderstood phenomena of biology (study of living organisms) and psychology (study of the mind) is how people develop mentally: how do ...
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Mental Health Therapies
What usually comes to mind when one hears the words "mental illness" or "mental health"? Many people might think of the stereotypical images of...
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Mental Health
Mental health describes the ability to cope with the transitions, traumas, and losses that are normal parts of everyone's lives in a way which allows people's personalities to remain int...
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Positive Mental Health
The concept of positive mental health was developed by Marie Jahoda, who argues that positive mental health can be viewed as an enduring personality characteristic or as a less ...
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Mental illnesses are some of the most common and least understood problems of today's youth. Ranging from simple emotional struggles to complex psychological diseases, mental illnesses affect a large...
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The Department of Veterans Affairs did not spend all of the extra $300 million it budgeted to increase mental health services and failed to keep track of how some of the money was used, a gove...
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An AWOL servicemember explained in detail to his emergency room doctor how he planned to climb atop Richmond City Hall and pick off legislators with a .50-caliber rifle as they left the statehouse ...
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President Bush signed the Joshua Omvig suicide prevention bill on Monday, providing improved screening and treatment for at-risk veterans.The law is named after a 22-year-old soldier from Grundy Ce...
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Gov. Timothy M. Kaine on Friday proposed remedies for failings in the state's mental health system that were exposed by the Virginia Tech shootings, including making it easier to force treatment an...
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The first broad outlines for legislation to remedy state mental health system failings exposed by the Virginia Tech massacre call for a much greater focus on how the state identifies and treats peo...
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Rosalynn Carter teamed up with the son of the late Sen. Paul Wellstone on Tuesday to push for mental health insurance legislation, with the former first lady saying the goal has never been closer t...
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The Senate passed legislation Tuesday night that would require equal health insurance coverage for mental and physical illnesses when policies cover both.The bill, which passed by unanimous consent...
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Democratic presidential candidate Barack Obama said Sunday the country is not providing enough mental health services for active duty troops and veterans. He proposed spending hundreds of million d...
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Mental Health in Today's Youth
VA Faulted on Mental Health Spending
