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A roadmap to prevent people being gone too soon

MQ Mental Health

Now, a new paper published in the Lancet Psychiatry calls for action on a global scale to put an end to the growing mortality rates of people with mental illness and distress. Group therapy improves depression and HIV treatment 2. Too many people are gone too soon. App co-design 6.

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Inequality of Mental Health

MQ Mental Health

A report by the UN Human Rights office showed people with mental health conditions and those with psychosocial disabilities experience disproportionately higher rates of poor physical health; and have a reduced life expectancy – a 20-years fewer for men and 15 years for women - compared with others in the population.

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Do Dialectical Behavior Therapy-Based Interventions Decrease Adolescent Externalizing Symptoms? A Meta-Analysis

Society of Clinical Psychology

Adolescence is an important developmental period during which youth experience key changes in their ability to regulate emotions and behavior, and engage in more reward-seeking and risk-taking behaviors than during childhood (Andrews et al., Biological Psychiatry, 89 (2), 109-118. 2021; Steinberg et al., About the Authors Rafaella J.

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Prioritizing Mental Health on College Campuses

Society of Clinical Psychology

One notable exception was that students identifying as non-heterosexual and engaging in same-sex behaviors reported a 3.4 ABPP is an Associate Professor in the Department of Psychiatry at Columbia University and Division of Clinical Developmental Neuroscience at the Sackler Institute. Auerbach, Ph.D., Kessler, Ph.D. References.