Tagged: Mental health

Featured image: The rise of pop-psychology: can it make your life better, or is it all snake-oil?

The rise of pop-psychology: can it make your life better, or is it all snake-oil? - Guest Work

Guest Author • May 04, 2021 •

Nick Haslam, The University of Melbourne   More than 50 years ago, George Miller, president of the American Psychological Association, urged his colleagues “to give psychology away”. No, cynical reader, he was not instructing his followers to abandon the field. Rather he hoped raising the general public’s awareness of psychology would help to solve society’s problems. In the half century … Read More

Featured image: Road to nowhere: New Zealanders struggle to get the help they need, 2 years on from a funding boost for mental health services

Road to nowhere: New Zealanders struggle to get the help they need, 2 years on from a funding boost for mental health services - News

Guest Author • Apr 19, 2021 •

Dougal Sutherland, Te Herenga Waka — Victoria University of Wellington As part of New Zealand’s well-being budget in 2019, the government announced an unprecedented NZ$1.9 billion increase in funding for the mental health sector. But almost two years on, there are no tangible signs of improvement and statistics show the number of New Zealanders seeking, but not receiving, … Read More

Featured image: Floods leave a legacy of mental health problems — and disadvantaged people are often hardest hit

Floods leave a legacy of mental health problems — and disadvantaged people are often hardest hit - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 22, 2021 •

Sabrina Pit, Western Sydney University Yet again, large swathes of New South Wales are underwater. A week of solid rain has led to floods in the Mid-North Coast, Sydney and the Central Coast, with several areas being evacuated as I write. As a resident of the NSW Far North Coast, which has had its share of devastating floods, many … Read More

Featured image: COVID-19: Life’s stresses just as important as health and economics

COVID-19: Life’s stresses just as important as health and economics - The Psychology Report

Sarb Johal • Mar 17, 2020 •

When we talk about disasters or a crisis, we often focus on the disruption and stress caused by the index event or occurrence itself. In the case of Covid-19, it’s the health impact of the virus on people and communities. However, secondary stressors are circumstances, events or policies that are indirectly related to or are a consequence of an … Read More

Featured image: Extremism is not a mental illness

Extremism is not a mental illness - Guest Work

Guest Author • Mar 20, 2019 •

Shaun Robinson, Mental Health Foundation of New Zealand Following Friday’s appalling terrorist attack, the Mental Health Foundation has been disappointed but unsurprised to see some people speculating the terrorist must have been mentally ill. We understand why it’s comforting to think this. We all want to think the terrorist is an outlier, an outsider, different to us. We … Read More

Featured image: Mental health in public life: Is the experience of politicians and how we make policy intertwined?

Mental health in public life: Is the experience of politicians and how we make policy intertwined? - The Psychology Report

Sarb Johal • Sep 03, 2018 •

Many societies are experiencing significant increases in those reporting mental health difficulties and illnesses, but face systemic obstacles in helping their communities’ to deal with these problems. The WHO report on Mental health: New Understandings, New Hope identified mental health as possibly posing the most difficult and acute health care challenge of the twenty-first century. The report goes on to … Read More

Featured image: Explainer: what is lupus and how is stress implicated?

Explainer: what is lupus and how is stress implicated? - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 13, 2018 •

Eric Morand, Monash Health This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Thanks to Selena Gomez and Dr House, most of us have heard of lupus. But most of us don’t know what it is, and until recently, none of us were sure whether stress could be a risk … Read More

Featured image: Mental health disorders among leading causes of children’ illness

Mental health disorders among leading causes of children’ illness - News

Jean Balchin • Apr 13, 2018 •

According to a study published in Child and Adolescent Psychiatry and Mental Health, although global rates of mental disorders in children have remained stable over time, the decline of infectious diseases will place mental disorders among the main causes of disease in children aged 4-15 years. In the study, Marie-Laure Baranne and Bruno Falissard at INSERM, France describe the prevalence of mental … Read More

Featured image: Menopausal mood swings can signal more serious mental illness

Menopausal mood swings can signal more serious mental illness - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 12, 2018 •

Tania Perich, Western Sydney University This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Most women expect to experience the effects of hormonal changes when they come to menopause and many anticipate increased irritability and mood swings. But mood swings that can be just an annoyance for some women can develop into something … Read More

Featured image: Gene-based tests may improve treatment for people with bipolar disorder

Gene-based tests may improve treatment for people with bipolar disorder - Guest Work

Guest Author • Apr 04, 2018 •

Klaus Oliver Schubert, University of Adelaide and Bernhard Baune, University of Adelaide This article was originally published on The Conversation. Read the original article. Bipolar affective disorder (BPAD) affects around 2% of the world’s population, leaving them with bouts of severe depression and episodes of what is commonly referred to as “mania”. A … Read More