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In Case You Missed It – March 6, 2015
Welcome to our new feature – In Case You Missed It, a weekly roundup of recent news articles related to issues of psychology, health and mental health, social justice and the public interest that you...
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In Case You Missed It – May 15, 2015 – Black girls matter, abuse of mentally...
In this week’s In Case You Missed It (a roundup of articles related to psychology, health, mental health and social justice collated from multiple news and commentary websites) we cover the impact of...
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Depression Screening Works and Now It Can Work for Pregnant and Postpartum Women
By Amalia Corby-Edwards, MS (Senior Legislative and Federal Affairs Officer, APA Public Interest Directorate) You may not have heard much about this, but something just happened that could positively...
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Postpartum Depression and Race: What We All Should Know
By Tanya Burrwell (Assistant Director, APA Women’s Programs Office) “… Mothers are made to feel that a child is the pinnacle of achievement, and the only appropriate feeling on the birth of a child is...
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How to Help People with Mental Health Conditions Quit Smoking for Good
By Corinne M. Graffunder, DrPH, MPH (Director of the Office on Smoking and Health, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention) Rebecca’s Story...
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Suffering from Depression is Pointless
By David Palmiter, PhD (Psychology Professor, Marywood University) Monsters are real, and ghosts are real too. They live inside us and sometimes they win. Stephen King October 6th is National...
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How Mindfulness Can Lower Your Stress and Anxiety in 2017
By Tiffany Chiu (APA Minority Fellowship Program Office Intern and Undergraduate Student at University of California, Irvine) It’s a new year and we know that 2016 was a stressful year for many of us....
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We Lose Too Many Vietnam Veterans to Suicide: Here’s How You Can Help
By Meg Lacy (Doctoral Student, Palo Alto University) As our Vietnam veteran population ages, many may become increasingly vulnerable for death by suicide. Despite the fact that the Vietnam war...
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Is Losing Interest and Motivation Inevitable As We Age?
By Vonetta Dotson, PhD (Associate Professor of Psychology and Gerontology, Georgia State University) Many of us have had the experience of losing interest in some of the activities that used to...
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Depression in Black Boys Begins Earlier Than You Think
By Aaron Hunt, MS (Graduate Intern, APA Health Disparities Office) and David J. Robles, BA (Graduate Intern, SAMHSA Office of Behavioral Health Equity) From 2001 to 2015, the suicide risk for Black...
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