Founded by two men in Akron, Ohio, in 1935, Alcoholics Anonymous has since spread around the world as a leading community-based method of overcoming alcohol dependence and abuse. Many people swear by the 12-step method, which has become the...
Here are tools available “right now” which I use anytime, even at 3 am when friends or therapist can’t be reached (tho’ I do leave voice mails and it helps enormously. Ask them to turn off their phone on retiring, then try it.)...
Here's a paper wherein we identified the relationship between mental problems and physical problems in a population. The main assumption was that one gateway to adult mental disorder is early adversity. ...
Miguel Coyula points at an open door in the middle of Old Havana. The mahogany door looks worn, but still handsome. The concrete facade has lost most of its paint, and time has ripped parts of it open. "That's marble," Coyula says, pointing to...
California high school students who have a parent in the military are far more likely than those from civilian families to have recently attempted suicide, according to a new study. The findings are based on a survey of ninth and 11th graders...
n prison, Rodney Jones told me, everyone had a nickname. Jones’s was Saint E’s, short for St. Elizabeths, the federal psychiatric hospital in Washington, best known for housing John Hinckley Jr. after he shot Ronald Reagan. Jones...
There is a consensus among poverty experts that over the past 50 years there has been some improvement in the condition of the poor. “Anyone who studies the issue seriously understands that material poverty has continued to fall in the...
In 2010, Common Ground, a homeless services and supportive housing provider, launched an effort to house some of the most vulnerable people in the country. They called it the 100,000 Homes Campaign. The following year, a group within Common...
The Department of Health and Social Services held a conference on Wednesday focused on raising awareness and promoting resources for victims of traumatic experiences. The “Trauma Matters” conference took place at Delaware Technical...
The boy sat hunched over, looking at the floor, his arms crossed and his hands clenched on his knees. A good-looking kid, with the round face of a child and light brown hair, this boy was one step away from being charged with breaking and...
Few topics are so heavily shrouded in mystery and myth as those involving sex and sexuality. When it comes to adolescents’ sexual behavior, these mysteries can contribute to a variety of negative outcomes, including unplanned pregnancies...
By David Shern, Ph.D. and Andrea Blanch, Ph.D. Whenever doing the right thing and doing the smart thing coincide, it increases the chances that something will happen. Elsewhere, we have presented data demonstrating that investments in...
Something an ex-girlfriend told Tom Sartwell decades ago, when he was 19 years old, has stuck with him his entire adult life. “When she broke up with me, the words she used were, ‘You couldn’t possibly love me. You never hit...
Mark Lukach and his wife were doing what most twenty-something couples are doing a few years into a marriage: They were building their careers and planning a family. Until the night he got a glimpse into a future that would be different than...
Colleges are scrambling to re-evaluate mental health resources after several university students have taken their lives in the past academic year. Arizona State University has now seen three suicides this year, the Massachusetts Institute of...