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World Mental Health Day: The Lifestyle Psychiatry Approach
When the brain-body puzzle is viewed as a whole greater than the sum of its parts, lifestyle psychiatry achieves impact, and our patients benefit.
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Audaces Líderes: Hispanic Heritage Month and the Value of Culturally Competent Mental Health Care
President-elect Dr. Theresa Miskimen Rivera blogs about the Value of Culturally Competent Mental Health Care during Hispanic Heritage Month
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Awards for Advancing Minority Mental Health: Honoring Local Work to Create Mental Health Equity
Our efforts to build a mentally healthy nation would be incomplete without the work of nonprofits that supply urgently needed services to minoritized communities.
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We’re All in This Together: Preparing Kids for a Mentally Healthy School Year
Pediatric psychologist Dr. Raglin Bignall of the Kids Mental Health Foundation offers three tips to parents of school-aged children to help ensure a smooth transition back to the classroom.
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Minority Mental Health Awareness Month: Q&A with Rev. Jermine Alberty
If we cannot hear people, we cannot help them. What I learned by way of helping my son and others is that when I hear them truly, then I can engage them.
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Chester Pierce’s Legacy: Pamela Collins, M.D., M.P.H., Carries the Torch for Global Mental Health Equity
Dr. Collins was one of Dr. Pierce’s mentees and currently chairs the Department of Mental Health at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health.
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Black History Month: James Comer, M.D., M.P.H., on Co-Founding the Black Psychiatrists of America
Like the broader struggle for racial equality, the movement towards equitable representation in medicine was hard-fought.
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Black History Month: The Future of Psychiatric Care for Black Children
Dr. Calhoun is leading the charge towards a future where Black children and their family caregivers can anticipate receiving culturally competent psychiatric care.
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MLK Day and the Mental Health of Minoritized Communities
Dr. King’s work continues to inspire the APA Foundation’s efforts to connect marginalized groups to the affordable, quality mental health care services they deserve.
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Workplace New Year’s Resolutions: A Q&A with Betsy Schwartz
Whether your New Year’s resolutions are workplace-oriented or not, the key is to make them specific.
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New Ways of Healing: Military Psychiatry and Veterans’ Mental Health
The mental fortitude demanded of veterans is as necessary after service as it is during service.
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Better Together: Changing Public Health Outcomes in Virginia with the Co-Responder Model
The co-responder model employs a mental health professional and a law enforcement official as dual first responders when an individual experiences a mental health crisis.