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Mental health awareness is on the rise, but access to professionals remains dismal - Zina Moukheiber
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Social Media Is Ruining Our Minds—It Also Might Save Them
THE INTERNET, YOU have undoubtedly heard, is bad for your brain. It can be especially damaging for those struggling with mental illness. Trolls are everywhere. Searching for information about your struggles may lead you into dark places. Websites that promote self-harm, suicide, and eating disorders abound, and many have hard-to-spot social media presences that no platform has quite figured out how to moderate: They’re arguably some of the internet’s most toxic filter bubbles. Even if you don’t wander into someone else’s stability-compromising clutches, you may end up compromising yourself; after all, search results last forever.
But telling anybody to stay offline in 2018 is impractical…
Resources
The Coming Mental-Health Crisis
Even before the COVID-19 crisis, America’s infrastructure for mental-health and addiction services was fragmented, overburdened, and underfunded.
Instagram Therapists Are the New Instagram Poets
Mental health professionals are speaking to the “therapy generation” online, at no cost. And it’s bringing in business.
Mental Health Awareness Is On The Rise, But Access To Professionals Remains Dismal
The rise in awareness and tech-based innovation is a bright spot in an otherwise persistently mediocre situation. It hasn’t translated into better access to professionals...
Stressed Out at the Office? Therapy Can Come to You
A growing number of employers, from Dell to Delta, are bringing in therapists for counseling on-site.
New Mental Health Certification Will Help Create Healthier Workplaces
The workplace is one of the most important places to address mental health. An employer can improve workplace culture, offer generous health insurance and other benefits, and commit to mental health from the top-down to cultivate a worker-friendly, highly productive, and psychologically safe workplace.
Social Media Is Ruining Our Minds—It Also Might Save Them
The internet holds potential solutions to pernicious mental health issues. Harnessing that potential is proving complicated.
Jack.org
Jack.org is Canada's only charity training and empowering young leaders to revolutionize mental health.
Mental Health America
Mental Health America is dedicated to promoting mental health, preventing mental and substance use conditions and achieving victory over mental illnesses and addictions through advocacy, education, research and service.
Mental Health Europe
There is no Health without Mental Health! Mental health is an essential part of any citizen's health and well being. As such, it is an essential component of communities. Good mental health is a basic human right. Factors that adversely affect mental health represent a major and growing threat to economic, social and public health in the world.
Mental Health Foundation
We are committed to reducing the suffering caused by mental ill health and to help everyone lead mentally healthier lives. We help people to survive, recover from and prevent mental health problems.
Mood Disorders Society of Canada
Mood Disorders Society of Canada (MDSC) is a national, not for profit, consumer driven, voluntary health charity committed to ensuring that the voices of consumers, family members and caregivers are heard on issues relating to mental health and mental illness; and in particular with regard to depression, bipolar illness and other associated mood disorders.
American Mental Health Counselors Association
The only organization working exclusively for the mental health counseling profession.
British Society for Mental Health and Deafness
The British Society for Mental Health and Deafness (BSMHD) is the leading UK charity for the promotion of the positive mental health of deaf people in the UK. Mental health includes healthy emotional, psychological and social development, the prevention and treatment of mental illness and other disorders. BSMHD focuses on those whose first or preferred language is sign language. Additionally BSMHD is interested in the mental health of all deaf people, whatever the age of onset or degree of deafness.
Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health
The Canadian Alliance on Mental Illness and Mental Health (CAMIMH) is a non-profit organization comprised of health care providers as well as organizations which represent individuals with lived experience of mental illness.
College of Mental Health Pharmacy
The College of Mental Health Pharmacy (CMHP) has the overall objective of advancing education and research in the practice of mental health pharmacy. Although mainly aimed at pharmacists and pharmacy technicians, anybody can register to be an associate member of the CMHP, enjoying access to education and networking opportunities such as e groups, bulletins and the annual conference.
International Marcé Society for Perinatal Mental Health
Dedicated to supporting research and assistance surrounding prenatal & postpartum mental health for mothers, fathers and their babies. The principal aim of the Society is to promote, facilitate and communicate about research into all aspects of the mental health of women, their infants and partners around the time of childbirth. This involves a broad range of research activities ranging from basic science through to health services research.
American Association for Marriage and Family Therapy
AAMFT is the professional association for the field of marriage and family therapy. We represent the professional interests of more than 25,000 marriage and family therapists throughout the United States, Canada and abroad.
American College of Neuropsychopharmacology
The American College of Neuropsychopharmacology (ACNP), founded in 1961, is the nation's premier professional society in brain, behavior, and psychopharmacology research. The field of neuropsychopharmacology involves the evaluation of the effects of natural and synthetic compounds upon the brain, mind, and human behavior.
American Foundation for Suicide Prevention
The American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (AFSP) is the leading national not-for-profit organization exclusively dedicated to understanding and preventing suicide through research, education and advocacy, and to reaching out to people with mental disorders and those impacted by suicide.
Brain & Behavior Research Foundation
The Brain & Behavior Research Foundation is committed to alleviating the suffering caused by mental illness by awarding grants that will lead to advances and breakthroughs in scientific research.
National Center for Post Traumatic Stress Disorder
The National Center for PTSD aims to advance the clinical care and social welfare of U.S. Veterans through research, education and training on PTSD and stress-related disorders.
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