Mad in America

OCTOBER 17, 2024

A vivid example is that healthcare professionals tend do classify the youngest in a classroom as having ADHD up to twice as often as their older classmates—due to their normal age-appropriate behavior: a stunning but long-known research finding that has insufficiently found its way to a broader audience.

Genetics and mental health

Santa Barbara Sanctuary Centers

DECEMBER 5, 2023

An innovative mixed-use project that will bring 34 units of affordable housing along with on-site health-care services to downtown Santa Barbara is set to begin construction after several years in the planning stages.

Construction

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 4, 2025

Economic systems are portrayed as immutable laws of nature, obscuring the fact that they are human constructs. Healthcare becomes a commodity, as do the patients themselves. This commodification extends beyond the workplace, infiltrating education, healthcare, and even personal relationships.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 24, 2024

By blurring the lines between the literal and figurative, battlefield metaphors do more than explain similarities, they also construct them. As Dhruv Khullar observes, terms like ‘fighting’ or ‘battling’ tend to create a perception of health as adversarial, setting a confrontational tone.

Genetics and mental health

Mad in America

NOVEMBER 25, 2023

Healthy personal boundaries need to be taught or role-modelled during childhood, but can still be built and constructed in later life, through healing trauma. . ‘We have seen that early life experiences determine whether we have healthy, compromised, or non-existent personal boundaries as adults.

Construction

Real Psychiatry

MAY 6, 2025

This tree was constructed looking at 12 exons (8,080 base pairs (bp) and 4 introns (3029 bp). Each cladogram is constructed with Bayesian analysis generating the respective bootstrap values from Markov chain analysis and posterior probabilities (see legend for location). They were sequences in 30 of the 34 Canid species.

Construction

Mad in America

OCTOBER 5, 2023

(European Brain Council) The biopsychosocial model is instead held up in these letters as an overarching solution to disagreements in psychiatry; depicted as a model which can unify all forms of mental healthcare under one church without the need for dissent or conflict between different schools of psychiatry.

Biopsychosocial model

Mad in America

FEBRUARY 24, 2024

Vital for helping depressed people are therapist “personal characteristics” that produce a collaborative “relationship alliance,” which facilitates healing and energizes and motivates patients to take constructive actions. Seriously depressed people routinely lack the energy for constructive behaviors such as physical exercise.

Poverty and mental health

Mad in America

JANUARY 18, 2024

There is continuing discrimination in the workplace and in healthcare settings. It is tempting to suggest that the pharmaceutical industry and others that feed off their profits have been on to this for some time, but they exploit it as marketing rather than open, constructive research.

Self-awareness

World Psychiatric Association (WPA)

APRIL 5, 2024

Such collaborative efforts are crucial not only for immediate relief but also for fostering the long-term resilience and recovery of healthcare within the affected communities. While the effects of this earthquake are tragic, it is essential to acknowledge the proactive measures Taiwan has taken to mitigate the risks of a much worse outcome.

Construction

Mad in America

MAY 12, 2025

The report concluded that the regulatory agency (now The Medicines and Healthcare products Regulatory Agency, or MHRA) had become too close to the industry, with common policy objectives, agreed processes, frequent contact, consultation and interchange of staff.

Trauma and the brain

Zencare

JANUARY 24, 2025

Some effective strategies include: Positive Self-Talk : Reframe intrusive or negative thoughts with compassionate and constructive affirmations. Mindfulness and self-care are essential for grounding yourself and reducing the hold of obsessive thoughts. Help you feel more in control of your obsessive thought patterns and behaviors.

Sleep and mental health

Mad in America

MAY 21, 2025

The fact that we have “psychopathology” per se, and that we have Psy-disciplines like Psychology and Psychiatry, is the consequence of a particular historya particular way knowledge has been divided up and institutionalized in terms of professions, structures of healthcare, and so on. It’s not the same everywhere else.

Trauma and the brain

Mad in America

JANUARY 23, 2024

O ne of the defining features in the socially constructed mental disorders in the DSM is the concept of “impairment.” and “How is clinically significant distress analyzed as a construct?” In order to get a diagnosis for certain mental conditions, significant distress or disturbance in functioning in certain areas of life is required.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 1, 2024

THE STATE OF PSYCHOLOGY AND MENTAL HEALTHCARE TODAY I routinely rummage through all the biographies of professors at leading universities. I’m going to introduce to you a new definition of mental health and, in doing so, am going to show that this group is more mentally healthy, for which we should be very concerned.

Aging and mental health

Mad in America

AUGUST 5, 2024

This hunt for medical confirmation tends to be accompanied by a consumerist perspective on healthcare which sees the acquisition of the desired diagnosis as a right, not an expert opinion that may or may not be deemed applicable in a given case. The consequences for assessment and therapy were described in Part 3.

Trauma and the brain

Clear Behavioral Health

MARCH 21, 2025

Related: Find Drug and Alcohol Treatment Centers Near You Treatment Modalities Common evidence-based approaches to treating substance use disorders in the treatment center include: Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) – This therapy type helps reframe negative thought patterns with more constructive and realistic ones.

Cognitive Behavioral Therapy