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Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA), in Proud Partnership with the AIR MILES Reward Program and Healthy Minds Canada (HMC), Launches New Highly-Interactive Website Designed to Help Canadians Improve Their Mental Fitness TORONTO, Nov. 8, 2012 /CNW/ - Today, the Canadian Mental Health Association (CMHA) in proud partnership with the AIR MILES Reward Program and Healthy Minds Canada (HMC), launched a new website called, 'My New Head' (www.mynewhead.com), which focuses on helping...
redOrbit Staff & Wire Reports - Your Universe Online Youngsters who intentionally harm themselves aren't necessarily demonstrating signs of mental illness, according to research presented recently at Lund University in Sweden. Psychologist Jonas Bjärehed, author of the thesis entitled "Characteristics of Self-Injury in Young Adolescents: Findings from Cross-Sectional and Longitudinal Studies in Swedish Schools," and his supervisor Lars Gunnar Lund surveyed 1,000 young people in the...
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 31, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Sixty-four percent of students who experience mental health problems in college end up withdrawing from school, according to a survey report, College Students Speak, released today by the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). (Photo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20121031/DC03546 )(Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100216/NAMILOGO ) "The numbers are dramatic. They point to a 'shadow' mental health crisis...
CHICAGO, Oct. 30, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- A leading Chicago mental health organization is launching a new program designed to address the distinctive needs of women in all reproductive stages of life. The expansion is the latest move for Insight Behavioral Health Centers LLC, which also provides treatment for patients with mood and anxiety disorders, and eating disorders. "Women have mental health needs that are often different from those of men," says Insight's co-founder Susan...
Treatment Advocacy Center awards Munetz accolade for efforts in encouraging use of assisted outpatient treatment as alternative to incarceration for people with severe mental illness. Akron, OH (PRWEB) October 25, 2012 Psychiatrist Mark Munetz, M.D., has been awarded the Treatment Advocacy Center’s 2012 Torrey Advocacy Commendation for his unwavering commitment to helping those with severe mental illness get effective and timely treatment. Munetz is currently the Margaret Clark Morgan...
ANAD, BEDA and NORMAL, three national nonprofits dedicated to education on weight acceptance, have united their organizational efforts to produce a new documentary film titled Beneath the Floorboards—the true story of a mother and daughter as they struggle with binge eating disorder and the accompanying weight bias, shame and stigma that they experience. This film takes an intimate and personal look at their journey, and explores the bullying due to weight stigma that faces individuals...
Residentialtreatmentcenter.com has created a much needed central location of resources for individuals seeking residential treatment in Los Angeles for mental health issues and addictions such as drug, alcohol and sex. Los Angeles, CA (PRWEB) October 24, 2012 Residentialtreatmentcenter.com has created a much needed central location of resources for individuals seeking residential treatment in Los Angeles for mental health issues and addictions such as drug, alcohol and sex. This new...
DETROIT, Oct. 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Mich. Gov. Rick Snyder, the Michigan legislature, Detroit Mayor Dave Bing, the Detroit City Council and a host of government and mental healthcare leaders saluted yesterday (Tuesday) Nashville-based mental healthcare leader Behavioral Centers of America (BCA) on its selection of Detroit for a $20 million master campus investment turning a formerly bankrupt eastside hospital into a comforting and healing BCA StoneCrest Center oasis-in-the-city,...
Easter is awarded Treatment Advocacy Center honors for her efforts in pushing Tennessee legislation that established a pilot program for individuals with untreated severe mental illness Knoxville, TN (PRWEB) October 23, 2012 Knoxville resident Karen Easter has been awarded national honors by the Treatment Advocacy Center for years of effort that led in 2012 to establishment of a pilot program in Tennessee to help people with untreated severe mental illness who are too sick to seek care....
ARLINGTON, Va., Oct. 23, 2012 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- During the final presidential debate, in the war of words between President Obama and Governor Romney over U.S. foreign and military policy, there were three brief references to America's veterans. (Logo: http://photos.prnewswire.com/prnh/20100216/NAMILOGO) Only once was traumatic brain injuries (TBI) and posttraumatic stress disorder (PTSD) specifically mentioned. "One of the terrible costs of war is mental illness," said...
