Tag: Mental Health: Page 12

African-American

The Unreported Economic Depression in Black America

This is a classic Depression for Black America, and few appear to be paying attention. Just look at the numbers.

November 29, 2010

Health

Lastword: Learning to Celebrate and Cope With Professional Success, Workplace Challenges

ave you had your mental health “tune-up” today? It’s not such a strange question when you think about stress levels brimming over and the frenetic pace of our professional pursuits in these tumultuous economic times.

January 20, 2010

Students

WASHINGTON UPDATE : COLLEGE STUDENTS ARE HEALTH CARE

Without health insurance, University of Maryland senior Susana Sagastizado gets nervous if her nose begins to run or her forehead starts to feel warm. They are all bad signs, she said, of an illness she can\’t afford – literally.

October 14, 2009

Students

NOTEWORTHY NEWS : NEW GL BILL BRINGS NEW CHALLENGES

With expanded education benefits for war veterans taking effect in August, public institutions anticipate having to cater to veterans’ unique needs.

July 22, 2009

HBCUs

S.O.S. (Save Our Students)

One grieving mother seeks to raise awareness about a leading cause of death among Black male college students — suicide.

February 4, 2009

HBCUs

Suicide Increasing Rapidly Among Young, Black Males

One grieving mother seeks to raise awareness.

February 2, 2009

Home

Study Shows Brain’s Reaction Racial Stress

Racial mistrust affects the brain of Whites and Blacks differently. A new University of South Carolina study finds Black peoples’ brains register stress in response to neutral facial expressions of Whites.

October 23, 2008

Latinx

JFKU Degree on Counseling Latinos Wins Approval

John F. Kennedy University (JFKU) has received final approval of the first fully accredited counseling psychology program focusing on cultural competence training in mental health and counseling skills for serving the Latino/Hispanic community. Classes begin this fall.

September 16, 2008

International

Caught Between Two Cultures

Efforts to reach Asian students with culturally appropriate mental health services are paying off.

August 20, 2008

Students

Foundation Unveils Bilingual Scholarship Program for Social Work

A bilingual scholarship program that will offer up to $1 million to Spanish-speaking students at accredited graduate social work programs in Texas in the next three years has been approved by the he Hogg Foundation for Mental Health.

July 15, 2008

Students

Best & Brightest: Recent Graduate Beats the Odds to Foster a Better Future

Two hundred people had gathered in the auditorium to hear her speak, but Tiffany Brooks, a 2008 graduate of San Francisco State University, only saw one of them, her foster mother Doris Peeler-Brown.

June 5, 2008

Students

Experts Say Suicide, Not Homicide Is a Larger Threat to Nation’s College Campuses

The Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University and Northern Illinois University shootings have garnered much media attention, but suicide is a larger threat to the nation’s college students, said a panel at the American Psychiatric Association’s annual meeting in Washington.

May 5, 2008