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Moodiness or more? How to tell if your kid’s suffering from a mental disorder

March 8, 2020

Published: February 27, 2020, 8:06 am, Updated: February 27, 2020, 7:22 pm By Kristen Rogers, CNN Click2Houston https://www.click2houston.com/news/national/2020/02/27/moodiness-or-more-how-to-tell-if-your-kids-suffering-from-a-mental-disorder/ Children’s lives may not be as hard as adults’ lives, but sometimes their moodiness and sadness are more than just a phase. Around one in six US youth ages 6 to 17 has a mental, behavioral or developmental disorder more »

New book provides inside look at iconic S.C. mental hospital

February 27, 2020 By William Buchheit The Columbia Star https://www.thecolumbiastar.com/articles/new-book-provides-inside-look-at-iconic-s-c-mental-hospital/ Back in 2010, I was in a Barnes and Noble when I found a photo-book titled ASYLUM: Inside the Closed World of State Mental Hospitals. The second I opened the book, I was captivated. Its creator had visited dozens of abandoned state hospitals across America, more »

Groundbreaking study on mental health reveals SECOND type of schizophrenia

PUBLISHED: 07:54, Tue, Mar 3, 2020 | UPDATED: 08:53, Tue, Mar 3, 2020 By Tom Fish Express https://www.express.co.uk/news/science/1250118/mental-health-study-schizophrenia-types-variations For the first time ever, two distinct neuroanatomical variations of schizophrenia have been identified. Researchers analysed the brain scans of more than 300 schizophrenia patients in the study. The first variation shows lower volumes of grey matter in comparison to more »

Young Workers Seek Mental Health Accommodations, Employers Try to Keep Up

Feb 12, 2020 11:00 am ET By Lauren Weber The Wall Street Journal https://www.wsj.com/articles/managing-mental-health-at-work-is-a-juggle-of-rights-and-realities-11581523201 Managers and younger employees are struggling to adapt as a generation of people with higher rates of reported mental illness enter the workforce. Many of these new workers are coming to offices from colleges and high schools where they received accommodations, more »

Berkeley Rep’s bill would require mental health and wellness education in S.C. schools

February 12, 2020

Tue, Feb 4, 2020 at 3:02 PM Posted by Heath Ellison Charleston City Paper https://www.charlestoncitypaper.com/TheBattery/archives/2020/02/04/berkeley-reps-bill-would-require-mental-health-and-wellness-education-in-sc-schools South Carolina schools are one step closer to required education on mental health thanks to new legislation passed in the state House of Representatives last week. The bill (H.3257) creates an amendment to the Health Education Act obligating the State Board of more »