mental health
Guest Editorial Suicide and gambling
by: shinta, 3 pagesI recently attended Nova Scotia’s International Problem Gambling Conference that was titled Myths, Reality and Ethical Public Policy. It was held in Halifax, one of the oldest ...
Health and Hygiene Costs Higher for Girls Juvenile Justice Residential Programs
by: shinta, 4 pagesWhile there is limited data available, most juvenile justice providers report that their costs for serving females are higher than their costs for serving males. The Department of ...
Parent-Child Interaction Therapy : A New Program at the DePaul Community Mental Health Center
by: shinta, 4 pagesDisruptive behavior disorders (e.g. Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Conduct Disorder) are the most common reason children are referred to mental health services. If left unchecked, these ...
Evolutionary Lifestyle and Mental Health
by: shinta, 10 pagesSome have suggested that psychological distress may be lower if individuals adopt a lifestyle more similar to our evolutionary past. In this study, we assessed relationships between distress and six ...
The Virtual Cutting Edge: The Internet and Adolescent Self-Injury
by: shinta, 11 pagesThe 2 studies reported here use observational data from message boards to investigate how adolescents solicit and share information related to self-injurious behavior. Study 1 examines the ...
Mental Illness and/or Mental Health? Investigating Axioms of the Complete State Model of Health
by: shinta, 10 pagesA continuous assessment and a categorical diagnosis of the presence (i.e., flourishing) and the absence (i.e., languishing) of mental health were proposed and applied to the Midlife in the ...
Responses to Nervous Breakdowns in America Over a 40-Year Period
by: shinta, 10 pagesThe 1957 and 1976 Americans View Their Mental Health surveys from the Institute of Social Research were partially replicated in the 1996 General Social Survey (GSS) to examine the ...
Hiding Feelings: The Acute Effects of Inhibiting Negative and Positive Emotion
by: shinta, 9 pagesEmotion regulation plays a central role in mental health and illness, but little is known about even the most basic forms of emotion regulation. To examine the acute effects of inhibiting ...
Panic disorder and coping
by: shinta, 31 pagesPanic disorder—recurrent, unexpected panic attacks—is more common among women than men. The disorder typically strikes younger people, with an average age of onset of 25.
