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Leading mental health researchers are warning that some of the most important health consequences of climate change will be on mental health. The researchers say that climate change has the potential to have significant negative effects on those with pre-existing serious mental illness, but that there is also likely to be an increase in the overall burden of mental disorder worldwide.
Mike Mogan was busy setting up his train display at Thursday's Redford Olde-Fashioned Holidays event. "I think they appeal to all ages," said Mogan, whose son and daughter-in-law live in Redford with their two sons. "I think it's something that cuts across generations." He noted he's 60 and retired from the state, where he did social work in Corrections/Mental Health. His grandson's 4 and just ...
In anticipation of the world climate change convention, researchers have summarized recent investigations on potential mental health impacts. Although Dr Lisa Page and Dr Louise Howard from King’s College London do not believe their findings will garner serious attention at the UN conference in Copenhagen next week, their findings are important for health professionals and [...]
A Rochester man who led police on a high-speed pursuit, causing several motorists to swerve out of the way, then tried to get police to shoot him, has been found not guilty by reason of mental illness.
RICHMOND A state panel has revised its report on the 2007 mass shootings at Virginia Tech, modifying accounts of how long it took the school to alert the campus. The panel also added details about Seung-Hui Cho's (sung-wee joh) troubling behavior and information from his mental-health records. Cho killed 32 before fatally shooting himself.
The Boston Police Department and the state Civil Service Commission are locked in a dispute over the mental health evaluations of some job applicants.
It was standing room-only in the chapel at Florida State Hospital as the mental health facility celebrated an achievement which drew the Department of Children and Families’ highest-ranking official to the party.
Mary Grimm used a local cafe as her office and received words of encouragement from cafe employees to write "The Tootsie Roll Lady: A Memoir of Mental Illness, Alcoholism and Faith," a book about finding hope and her personal struggles between 1998 and 2005.
Instituting student mental health screenings is one way to improve the initiative further.
EUREKA -- The Art For Life Studio's holiday art show will take place today from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. in the conference room at Humboldt County Mental Health Services, 720 Wood St.
The Associated Press MONTGOMERY | A newspaper publisher who resigned from Alabama’s mental health advisory board said Thursday he will rejoin the panel since members changed the rules to allow public access to their meetings.
Poughkeepsie The Mid-Hudson New York Chapter of the Bereaved Parents of the USA will hold a meeting on Thursday, Dec. 3 at 7 p.m. at the D.C. Mental Health Center, located at 230 North Road, in Poughkeepsie.
WOODSTOCK – The case of a Wonder Lake woman accused of striking a police officer and threatening to let her pit bull loose has been transferred to McHenry County’s Mental Health Court.
MONTICELLO — Proposed cuts in county budgets for mental health mean a loss of five mental-health positions, reduced mental-health services in the schools and could double wait times, said Joe Todora, director of the Department of Community Services.
One man used the word “sweethearts” to describe the people who made this year’s Hope for the Holidays possible.A few gave shy smiles and agreed this helps.By 11:45 a.m. Thursday — not quite an hour into the event — 220 people had received sack lunches, and more people were coming through, said Lynn Hartje, director of behavioral health services with Helen Farabee Mental Health/Mental ...
AUBURN - Cayuga County lawmakers and health officials marked the beginning of the last stage of building the county's new mental health facility Thursday.
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