This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Since the first diagnosed case of COVID-19 in the United States on Jan. 20, 2020, news about infection rates, deaths and pandemic-driven economic hardships has been part of our daily…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Before COVID-19 came to campus, mental health treatment was an in-person affair. Fewer than 8% of colleges offered telephone therapy in 2019, and only 3% offered video, a survey of campus counseling center directors…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Our nation’s collective mental health has been severely challenged since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic. Now, as we begin to envision our post-pandemic future, it’s important to take a…
David Johnson discusses mental health in the time of the pandemic and racial reckoning, the role of nonprofits, and how individuals can make a difference. Read the full article about…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. While 2020 may reluctantly be recalled as one of the most traumatic years in history for many individuals, trauma is, unfortunately, not new. A 2015 report from the National Child…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. I asked my mom about what happened when the doctors first told her about my disability. “They gave me a pamphlet,” she said, one that was 15 years out of…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. By one estimate, as many people experienced serious psychological distress in just the first month of the pandemic as during the entire year before it began. Elevated rates of anxiety and depression…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Japanese tennis star Naomi Osaka announced that she would withdraw from the French Open after she was fined and threatened with being disqualified for not speaking to media during the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Kyla Thomas, USC Dornsife College of Letters, Arts and Sciences With more than 30 million people infected and 550,000 dead, the U.S. is among the nations hardest hit by the…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. Over the last 30 years, researchers have called for increased community involvement in developing interventions to broadly improve community health and well-being. Community involvement in the implementation of mental health…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. For many young people, the seemingly never-ending pandemic and isolation of virtual learning have exacerbated symptoms of depression that researchers documented among this age group long before COVID-19. In response…
This article is deemed a must-read by one or more of our expert collaborators. A lack of data on student-parents, specifically, inspired the study, said Sara Gorman, director of research and knowledge dissemination at the Jed Foundation, during a webinar Wednesday. Just over one…