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Data from the American Psychological Association (APA) in 2021 showed that only 5.08% of the psychology workforce was Black — as opposed to 80.85% being white. According to Owoo, this disparity ...
Mental health. Historically, mental disorders have had three major explanations, namely, the supernatural, biological and psychological models. [1] For much of recorded history, deviant behavior has been considered supernatural and a reflection of the battle between good and evil. When confronted with unexplainable, irrational behavior and by ...
Getty Images. New research reveals that Americans between 45 and 65 years old are experiencing more stress today than people their age did in the 1990s. Experts believe changes in technology ...
The experience of collective trauma in Black communities. “The term ‘collective trauma,’ or ‘community trauma,’ refers to the psychological reactions to a traumatic event that affect an ...
The United States has experienced two waves of deinstitutionalization, the process of replacing long-stay psychiatric hospitals with less isolated community mental health services for those diagnosed with a mental disorder or developmental disability . The first wave began in the 1950s and targeted people with mental illness. [1]
The National Mental Health Programme (NMHP) was launched in India. 1983. The European Psychiatric Association was founded. 1987. The Indian Mental Health Act was drafted by the parliament, but it came into effect in all the states andunion territories of India in April 1993. This act replaced the Indian Lunacy Act of 1912, which had earlier ...
The earliest mentions of bipolar disorder in medical literature date back to Hippocrates (460-370 B.C.), a physician in ancient Greece who’s often referred to as “the father of medicine ...
The facts show otherwise. According to the CDC, the U.S. has the highest rate of sexually transmitted diseases in the industrialized world. There are 15.3 million new cases per year of STDs ...