Lack of sleep increases a child's risk for emotional disorders later
NIH-funded study reveals long-term emotional effects of poor sleep When asked how lack of sleep affects emotions, common responses are...
Dads play key role in child development
The research provides some of the most conclusive evidence to date of fathers' importance to children's outcomes and reinforces the idea...
Hispanic Youth & the Struggle to Aquire Mental Health Assessment and Treatment
Whether it's behavioral, anxiety, mood, personality or psychiatric, mental health disorders manifest in many forms. However, non-white...
For Practitioners: Understanding the Stigma of Mental Health in Latinos
There have been several important studies of Latino mental health in recent years, including the Mexican American Prevalence and Services...
Minority Mental Health Series: Latino/Hispanic Communities and Mental Health
Mental Health America works nationally and locally to raise awareness about mental health and ensures that those at-risk for mental...
South Asian American Children: Mental Health Challenges
More than 3.4 million South Asians* live in the United States, many of them professionals who entered the U.S. following the Immigration...
Minority Mental Health Series: No, You’re Not Imagining It: 3 Ways Racial Microaggressions Sneak int
Have you ever experienced someone insulting you in a way that felt a little bit racist, but you couldn’t quite figure out why? Were you...
Black Lives Matter: Psychological Research Findings Offer Ways to Foster Justice
Police violence against black men seems like a daily occurrence. There are the well-known cases, such as that of Michael Brown, 18, who...
Putting the rap into therapy: can listening to hip-hop beat depression?
"In the past, rap music has been criticised for its obsession with the high life, with the wearing of the most expensive clothes, the...
Changes In DSM-5: Racism Can Cause PTSD Similar To That Of Soldiers After War
Dr. Monnica T. Williams suggests that proposed changes in the criteria for post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in the fifth edition of...
