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Category : Anxiety

Mental Health Month and Prevention Week: Focus on Teen Behaviors and Warning Signs

May is Mental Health Month, and the third week in May is National Prevention Week, an annual health observance focused on raising awareness about the importance of substance use prevention and positive mental health. You can join online to view the live kickoff event for National Prevention Week on May 15, at 11:00 a.m. EDT.

Motivational Interviewing: Empowering People to Change

Motivational interviewing is a counseling technique to help people change behaviors. It involves “collaborative conversation to strengthen a person’s own motivation for and commitment to change.”

Childhood Lead Exposure Can Still Have an Impact Many Years Later

he ongoing water crisis in Flint, Mich., has brought concerns over lead poisoning back into the public’s attention, but the problem of lead exposure is not isolated to Flint. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, at least half a million U.S. children age 1 to 5 have elevated lead levels (above 5 micrograms per deciliter).

Self-Advocacy Through Power Statements

Using “power statements” can help people with serious mental illness clarify and communicate their personal goals for medication and treatment, according to a new study. A power statement is a short, self-advocacy statement prepared by a patient based on a template. The study found that people with serious mental illness typically view medications not only as a way to address symptoms, but as a means to pursue meaningful life goals.

13 Mental Health Questions about “13 Reasons Why”

The realistic portray of mental illness in television and movies can be an effective way to reduce stigma around psychiatric issues. But it can be troubling if those portrayals do not show options for treatment.

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