Child Mind Intitute

JANUARY 17, 2025

Recently, Meta (which owns Facebook and Instagram) introduced significant changes to its content moderation policies to allow users to suggest that identifying as LGBTQ+ is a mental illness. This decision poses a potential threat to the well-being of LGBTQ+ teens, who are already vulnerable to discrimination and harassment.

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Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 28, 2024

Watch the Recording In this conversation, Yuki Kotani of the Child Mind Institute talks to Casey Pick, director of law and policy at The Trevor Project , about the impact of policies limiting youth access to social media particularly for minoritized groups such as LGBTQ+ teens.

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Child Mind Intitute

AUGUST 6, 2024

They talk about how including youth in research on tech and mental health can improve access to care by making digital care solutions fit the needs of more diverse populations. Green explains, is making sure the services available do not further alienate groups like Black, Latinx, and LGBTQ+ youth.

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Centre for Mental Health

JANUARY 14, 2025

Mental health is about how we all think, feel, behave and function. It underpins healthy lifestyles, physical health, educational attainment, employment and productivity, relationships, community safety and cohesion, and quality of life. A mental health policy test is a simple and effective way to do this.

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ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH)

DECEMBER 16, 2021

Washington, DC ACTNow for Mental Health (ANMH), a non-profit organization dedicated to expanding access to mental health services and supports, fighting mental and behavioral health stigma, and enhancing health equity, commends the U.S.

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Lightwork

MARCH 6, 2025

Introduction Women’s History Month is a powerful reminder of the incredible journey in women’s mental health care. It shows how society has evolved from misunderstanding and stigma to recognizing and providing specialized treatment for women’s unique mental health needs.

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The Mental Elf

JUNE 15, 2025

KCL MSc student, Jingyi Zhang, considers a recent meta-analysis on gender non-conformity and common mental health problems, which suggests that governments should prioritise inclusive laws and gender-affirmative care to protect mental health.

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Centre for Mental Health

APRIL 24, 2025

These are tough times for LGBTQ+ people, amongst the toughest I have known.After several years of what felt like steady progress, in the UK, at least, the picture is changing rapidly and dramatically. LGBTQ+ young people are frequently excluded by friends and family after coming out. Homophobic bullying in schools is widespread.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 16, 2024

In public health, we talk about death. We aim to protect, preserve, and promote the health of individuals and their communities. We don’t examine the health effects of this person’s absence. In this sense, it’s odd that we rarely think about death as an exposure with downstream health risks.

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Mad in America

MAY 4, 2024

I n 1999, New York State passed the first Assisted Outpatient Treatment (AOT) law, which creates a regime of civil courts to force psychiatric interventions on those found to have “serious and persistent mental illness” who “struggle to engage voluntarily” with care. What made this year different?

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Mad in America

JUNE 1, 2024

Vibrant Emotional Health (Vibrant), administrators of 988Lifeline under contract from the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration (SAMHSA), has spawned a political lobbying division that’s helping usher state infrastructure investments and legislative initiatives. There could also be other factors at work.

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Now Psych

MARCH 4, 2024

HOCD is characterized by intrusive and/or distressing thoughts about one’s sexual orientation (thoughts about being LGBTQ). Note that HOCD, as a distinct diagnosis, is not included in the DSM-5 (Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition). What is Denial, In Contrast to HOCD?

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Solara Mental Health

AUGUST 9, 2022

The treatment for mental health issues or drug and alcohol abuse should consider their military service. It’s also important to note that these veterans already faced higher instances of bullying and mental health issues while in school. They may also have a higher instance of drug or alcohol abuse.

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Mad in America

FEBRUARY 17, 2024

The young dancer’s story—at her request and her father’s, she’ll remain anonymous—illustrates both the lure and harms of social media, which has been drawing more and more attention of late for its ubiquity, its addictiveness, its corporate habits, and its role in the youth mental health crisis. hours a day on social media.”

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Mad in America

JUNE 4, 2025

P aulo del Vecchio is a person in long-term recovery from mental health and addictions, who has been a leader in the peer recovery movement for 40 years. Leah Harris: I’m wondering if you can start off by talking to us about how you got involved in the field of mental health, your early activism and lived experiences?

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