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December 05, 2024

Supporting Mental Health Amid Global Conflict and Trauma

  • APA Leadership

Anyone who follows current events will know that we are living in a time where traumatic and often violent incidents seem to be increasingly more common. Whether it is the fallout from a natural disaster, political strife, or military conflict, the mental health effects of these events can be long lasting and far reaching. One needs only to turn on the news to see a world that seems beset by sectarian violence and war. Political

November 25, 2024

Get Outside: The Many Ways Nature Can Boost Your Mental Well-Being

  • Healthy living for mental well-being

‘Go outside and get some fresh air’ has long been common advice for staying healthy. Although the calming, mood-boosting and inspirational effects of spending time in nature have long-been championed, recent research has strengthened the case in support of nature's therapeutic benefits.

November 13, 2024

November Is National Family Caregivers Month

  • Healthy living for mental well-being, Older adults, Patients and Families

Day in and day out, more than 4 million family caregivers in the U.S. provide care for adult family and friends with chronic illnesses or other needs for assistance. National Family Caregivers Month offers an opportunity to raise awareness of the issues; celebrate their efforts and increase support for family caregivers.

October 31, 2024

‘It’s only a Scratch!’ – Athletes and Injury Concealment

Just as this theatrical stubbornness of the Black Knight displays the downplaying of injury, so too can employees, patients, and athletes. Malingering is the fabrication or exaggeration of a symptom for “secondary gain.” When the opposite occurs, in the case of the Black Knight, for example, that can be referred to as “reverse malingering.”

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