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Every month Anne LaFleur sends employees in her office a quiz about variouswellness topics. When the topic was depression, she received twice as manyresponses as usual from co-workers.When LaFleur, vice president of human resources at a credit union inPawtucket, RI, took a Mental Health First Aid course in February, she quicklyunderstood the reason for the high level of interest in mental health issues.The training...

The significance of the  shooting in Tucson,  mental health paritylaws & conspiracy issuesThe timing of this act in Tucson is significant; it is a symbolic warning ofwhat more mental health treatment will produce; violence. The MentalHealth Parity Act signed in 2008 is scheduled to go into effectJanuary 2011. Obama care also stipulates more coverage for mental health. Whatpeople need to know is that m...

This article focuses on the need for mental health nurses to promote sexualhealth. As a mental health nurse I have observed that during practice, nursesare encountering problems dealing with sexual health issues in mental health.Clients have experienced sexual health needs that nurses failed to meet andmany nurses have experienced that they are out of depth.Lomas (2009) carried out a survey with at least 283 mental...

Psychiatry is the realm in which medical science and psychology join toprovide help for persons whose mind (as one says) is disturbed and whosebehavior does not conform to accept social patterns. Psychopathology  andclinical psychology are integral sub-fields of this branch of medicalpsychology which, of necessity, also includes neurology, mental deficiency orretardation, forensic psychology, certain aspects o...

Health Education as a core course for Teachers’ Education: toenhance the Mental Health of studentsByAkintunde, P. G. (Ph.D)Department of Vocational & Special EducationUniversity of CalabarCalabar, Cross River State, NigeriaAndOlanipekun, O. FolaOlabisi Onabanjo UniversityAgo-Iwoye, Ogun State, Nigeria AbstractThis paper is primarily concerned with the role of teachers in enhancementof mental health of st...