It’s about that time of year: classes are about to wrap up, and children and their parents are about to lose the very structure they have kept all year. According to the Journal of the Canadian Academy of Child and Adolescent Psychiatry, that can cause mental health issues to spike in some children. Recommended Videos…

Mental Health Awareness Month in May highlights the importance of Medicare’s mental health services benefits. This concern came up for me recently, when Michael, a 72-year-old former marketing executive, told me that he was feeling isolated and anxious, especially after his wife’s passing. Michael’s question: Does Medicare provide support for mental health services, and, if…

Mental Health Awareness Month in May highlights the importance of Medicare’s mental health services benefits. This concern came up for me recently, when Michael, a 72-year-old former marketing executive, told me that he was feeling isolated and anxious, especially after his wife’s passing. Michael’s question: Does Medicare provide support for mental health services, and, if…

Every year, the Doodle for Google contest highlights creativity from student artists around the country. This year’s winner from Wyoming is Caroline Henson, an eighth grader from the University of Wyoming Lab School in Laramie, and she’s using her doodle to shine a light on mental health. In celebration of their 25th anniversary, Google asked…

Neilson Barnard/Getty Images Selena Gomez is sharing advice with those who want to take charge of their mental health. “It’s okay to ask for help,” Selena told People as part of her Make a Call campaign, which she launched through her brand Rare Beauty in honor of Mental Health Awareness Month. “It’s very important to…

In recent years, mental health in America has been a growing concern. But even as awareness has grown, many practitioners overlook important issues. Much of this is related to the field’s political bias, which leads researchers and therapists to ignore entire clinical populations. One example involves race. Left-leaning researchers have spent decades focusing on racial…

Hochul is hoping to advance legislation that would restrict addictive features on social media, as well as restrict the collection of minors’ personal data. WILLIAMSVILLE, N.Y. — Students from Williamsville East High School got an opportunity to sit down and talk to New York Governor Kathy Hochul about youth mental health and the impact social…

CITYWIDE — ROUGHLY 6,800 TEENAGERS have signed up for New York City’s free mobile mental health therapy program, NYC Teenspace, since it launched in November, with Brownsville, East New York and Canarsie leading the signups, city officials said Thursday. “The pandemic was tough on us all related to our mental health, but especially so for…

Mental health is often viewed as a personal responsibility but in the years since the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic we have seen organizations across sectors begin to have conversations about mentally healthy workplace environments. Nonprofits lack the uniformity of traditional corporate workplaces; therefore, typical workplace mental health strategies are less plug-and-play and often requires…