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Why The US National Institute Of Mental Health Plans To Abandon The DSM
The U.S. National Institute of Mental Health is turning its back on the so-called bible of its field. In a statement, the institute said it will start doing research in a way that ignores the...
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Mental health problems ‘should not be treated like an illness’
By Nick Mcdermott Treating mental health problems such as schizophrenia and bipolar disorder in the same way as illnesses is unhelpful, leading psychologists claim. Even labelling the conditions is...
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National Institute Of Mental Health Forsakes the DSM, the Bible Of Psychiatry
Tragic stories of misdiagnosis, over-medication, and addiction to prescription medications abound in psychiatry. Though the field asserts that its diagnostic system, described in the American...
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DSM-5: Mental Health Professionals, Critics Face Off
CHICAGO — In the new psychiatric manual of mental disorders, grief soon after a loved one’s death can be considered major depression. Extreme childhood temper tantrums get a fancy name. And certain...
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Normal or Not? New Psychiatric Manual Stirs Controversy
In the new psychiatric manual, the DSM-5, irritable children who throw frequent temper tantrums can be diagnosed with disruptive mood dysregulation disorder. CREDIT: Oleg Kozlov | Shutterstock With...
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Fifth edition of Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders published
The field of mental health will face its greatest upset in years on Saturday with the publication of the long-awaited and deeply-controversial US manual for diagnosing mental disorders. Early drafts...
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The Healthy Debate About Mental Health
May 2013 may be remembered as a watershed (or maybe a Waterloo) in the history of psychiatry. Two major events have set the stage for a fundamental debate about how we should think about the nature of...
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Canada Hosts Panel on Mental Health at the World Health Assembly
GENEVA, SWITZERLAND–(Marketwired – May 20, 2013) - Experts from Canada, the US, Australia, Chile and Ethiopia took part on a panel at the World Health Assembly today to share their experiences and...
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Corrections plan to outsource mental health services puts the community at risk
Mark Sokolski, a nurse at Graterford, with his wife, Jolene, a ward clerk for the Department of Corrections, took part in an informational picket line at the prison over outsourcing. (Caitlin Morris /...
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Prolonged Grief Soon Identified as A Mental Health Disorder?
Prolonged Grief disorder may soon be considered a mental health disorder. The test standard criteria was developed by Dana-Farber, a Cancer Institute researcher in Boston. She based her claim on the...
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Most US Health Spending Is Exploding — but Not for Mental Health
CATHERINE RAMPELL Dollars to doughnuts. As I write in a magazine column this week, mental illness costs the country a lot of money, primarily in indirect costs like lost worker productivity and...
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The term is intellectual disability, not mental retardation
The words ‘mental retardation’ will not be used on certificates issued to patients who have a mental illness anymore. You can thank the American Psychiatric Association (APA) for that. Recently, APA...
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Mental health services lacking in poorer areas, study says
Mental illness is more prevalent in poverty-stricken counties in California, according to a newly released study. And those counties often are short on psychiatrists needed to diagnose and treat mental...
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African-Americans, Latinos receive less adequate mental health care than Whites
Blacks and Latinos receive less adequate mental health care than Whites, finds a new study in Health Services Research. “We found that Blacks and Latinos [remain] in care, including using outpatient...
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Experts team up to launch International Centre for Mental Health Social Research
Mental health experts from around the world are teaming up to undertake a unique research programme applying social science to mental health practice. Led by the University of York, researchers from...
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No mental health system blame for suicide
The depressed woman, known only as Ms D, travelled to Mexico and overdosed on drugs in May 2008, dying from septic shock, nosocomial pneumonia and respiratory distress. She had been committed to a...
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Most teen mental health problems go untreated
More than half of adolescents with psychiatric disorders receive no treatment of any sort, says a new study by E. Jane Costello, a Duke University professor of psychology and epidemiology and associate...
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Mental-health provider shortages compound problems getting care
For many area residents struggling with mental illness, insurance problems are just one barrier to getting the help they need. Another is finding professionals to treat them. “We have a huge shortage...
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Colorado’s homeless in need of increased mental health care
Mark Maseros used to be a repeat customer at the ER — when he wasn’t in jail for drugs or theft. Now 54, Maseros spent three decades living homeless in Denver. Hooked on heroin that he took to...
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