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National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (2014)

Kids Mental Health Info

Department of Justice funded a series of three comprehensive national surveys called the National Survey of Children’s Exposure to Violence (NatSCEV) in 2008, 2012, and 2014. The survey has not been repeated since 2014, so it is the most recent national data of its kind.

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Image-Based Memory May Heighten Symptoms of PTSD 

Association for Psychological Science (APS)

2017; Rasmussen & Berntsen, 2014). In an upcoming Clinical Psychological Science study, Ryan Yeung, a postdoctoral fellow at the Baycrest Academy for Research and Education, examined this trait in people with post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD). MacLeod, C., & Di Simplicio, M. CNS Spectrums , 24 (1), 114 126. Rasmussen, K.

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A Remarkable Feat: A Psychiatric Patient Changed the Law on Restraints

Mad in America

In 2014, the United Nations Special Rapporteur Dainius Pūras, who is a psychiatrist, called upon all nations to make forced treatment illegal , but not a single country has done anything. I have described on Mad in America that Tuva Andersson , whose problem was anxiety, was also killed by psychiatry. Why do we accept this?

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Critical Psychiatry Textbook, Chapter 16: Is There Any Future for Psychiatry? (Part Six)

Mad in America

When I published my 10 myths about psychiatry, which are harmful for people, in a major newspaper in January 2014, I ended my article this way: 189 Psychotropic drugs can be useful sometimes for some patients, particularly in short-term use, in acute situations. 10:63 This is b t. 701 They therefore hand out depression pills liberally.

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The Core Error of Psychiatrists and Psychologists: Certainty about “Consensus Reality”

Mad in America

A report released by Common Sense Media in 2014 stated: “The proportion of children who are daily readers drops markedly from childhood to the tween and teenage years. If a major part of true education is inspiring and energizing us to be curious and enjoy reading, there is empirical evidence of standard schooling’s anti-educational effects.

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Global Psychiatry’s Attempt to Excommunicate the Former UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health

Mad in America

B etween 2014 and 2020, the UN published three reports on mental health, prepared by the special rapporteur on the right to health (Dainius Puras). These called for a radical change in the practice and organization of mental health care across the world.

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After 50 Years, New Harms of Smoking Still Emerging

Society of Behavioral Medicine (SBM)

The 2014 Surgeon Generals report, The Health Consequences of Smoking50 Years of Progress, released January 17, presented some notable new conclusions since the last report in 2012, including new evidence that smoking causes liver cancer, colon cancer, diabetes, rheumatoid arthritis and general inflammation in the body.

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