Hot Topics: Mental Health Issues: Social Aspects

"Covering a range of themes conducive to understanding and facilitating improved mental health, Making an Impact on Mental Health and Illness is invaluable reading for advanced students in clinical psychology and professionals in the mental health field"

"For centuries, doctors have struggled to define mental illness--how do you diagnose it, how do you treat it, how do you even know what it is? In search of an answer, in the 1970s a Stanford psychologist named David Rosenhan and seven other people--sane, normal, well-adjusted members of society--went undercover into asylums around America to test the legitimacy of psychiatry's labels. Forced to remain inside until they'd "proven" themselves sane, all eight emerged with alarming diagnoses and even more troubling stories of their treatment. Rosenhan's watershed study broke open the field of psychiatry, closing down institutions and changing mental health diagnosis forever. But, as Cahalan's explosive new research shows, very little in this saga is exactly as it seems. What really happened behind those closed asylum doors, and what does it mean for our understanding of mental illness today?"

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Contents: Barriers to access. Health insurance, treatment, and access -- New study reveals lack of access as root cause for mental health crisis in America / Why collaboration's key to help patients access mental health care / Why it's not easy to access mental health care when you're covered by Medicaid / Increasing access to quality mental health care through telepsychiatry / Why telehealth for mental health care is working / Behavioral health in a time of crisis. COVID and the American mental health care crisis -- COVID-19 has accelerated the mental health crisis / Not as good as we want, not bad as we've heard : teen mental health during the COVID-19 pandemic / Mental health declined during the pandemic but some people with depression improved - new research / Health workers know what good care is : pandemic burnout is getting in the way / Stress and rigorous work schedules push a doctor to commit suicide every day in the US : "we need them, but they need us" / Ultimate consequence. Suicide and behavioral health -- Worrying trends in U.S. suicide rates / Breaking the trend : new CDC data on suicide / Suicide rates fall again -- but not for young adults and some people of color / Suicides in U.S. jails, prisons rose sharply over two decades, federal data shows / Fact sheet: New strategy outlines five priorities for reducing military and veteran suicide / Suicide and self-harm in correctional facilities, Can psychedelics meet their potential for treating mental health disorders? / Common commodities with substance use disorders research report. -- Connection between substance use disorders and mental illness / Young people's problems. Youth and behavioral health -- Improving access and care for youth mental health and substance use conditions / U.S. Surgeon General issues advisory on youth mental health crisis further exposed by COVID-19 pandemic / U.S. Surgeon General issues a stark warning about the state of youth mental health / COVID harmed kid's mental health -- and schools are feeling it / Feeling blue? Oregon students allowed to take "mental health days" / Mental health disorders and teens substance use "

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"This book aims to open the door to mental health research for readers, as well as direct them to accurate and current resources for further investigation"

"Description: The brain and mental health -- Mental illnesses -- Mental health treatments -- Pediatric mental health concerns -- Other populations with distinctive mental health concerns -- Mental illness co-occurring with other disorders -- Living with mental health disorders -- Additional health and information."

Publisher: MDPI AG - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute

"Experiences of hearing the voice of God (or angels, demons, or other spiritual beings) have generally been understood either as religious experiences or else as a feature of mental illness. Some critics of traditional religious faith have dismissed the visions and voices attributed to biblical characters and saints as evidence of mental disorder. However, it is now known that many ordinary people, with no other evidence of mental disorder, also hear voices and that these voices not infrequently include spiritual or religious content. Psychological and interdisciplinary research has shed a revealing light on these experiences in recent years, so that we now know much more about the phenomenon of "hearing voices" than ever before. The present work considers biblical, historical, and scientific accounts of spiritual and mystical experiences of voice hearing in the Christian tradition in order to explore how some voices may be understood theologically as revelatory."