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Prioritizing Mental Health on International Self-Care Day: How Teen Therapy and IOP Can Help 

Clear Behavioral Health

When teenagers have a positive self-image, they are better equipped to handle stress and maintain mental health. For teens with more severe mental health symptoms, an intensive outpatient program (IOP) can offer additional support, incorporating group therapy, family sessions, and specialized care.

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Psychology, Personhood, and the Crisis of Neoliberalism: Jeff Sugarman on Theoretical and Critical Psychology

Mad in America

Sugarman has spent decades critically interrogating the ways mainstream psychology reflects and reinforces the ideologies of neoliberalism , shaping how we understand identity, mental health, and human development. One of the strange things about being a professor is that we get older, but our students stay the same age.

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Addressing the Silent Mental Health Crisis of Children and Youth Around the World

Child Mind Intitute

The Current Landscape: A Need for Cultural Sensitivity Children and adolescents in LMICs face severe challenges that greatly affect their mental health, including high levels of poverty, exposure to child labor, violence, conflict, and limited access to education. Yet data on their mental health needs are severely lacking.

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Context and Care vs. Isolate and Control: An Interview on the Dilemmas of Global Mental Heath with Arthur Kleinman

Mad in America

As a Professor of Medical Anthropology at Harvard University’s Department of Global Health and Social Medicine and a Professor of Psychiatry at Harvard Medical School, Kleinman has profoundly influenced how medical professionals understand the interplay between culture, illness, and healing. Listen to the audio of the interview here.