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Surgeon General Vivek Murthy, long a proponent of mental health awareness, has issued a warning that social media use is a main contributor to depression, anxiety and other problems in the nation’s teenagers. The report, released Tuesday, calls attention to growing concerns about the effects of social media use on children and adolescent’s mental health. The advisory urges policymakers and …

8:37 Eco-grief: Coping with our climate crisis Something happened this summer, we all felt it. Day after day, new images emerged of the tropics and the Arctic on fire, devastating floods, droughts and people fleeing their homes. If you didn’t already feel consumed with dread, it certainly felt like a tipping point. One warm Saturday night, this feeling was top …

Home › Articles › The Mental Health Crisis: A Conversation with Dr. Anthony Isacco Anthony Isacco, PhD, is a Catholic psychologist on the faculty of Chatham University in Pittsburgh, where he is a professor of graduate psychology and the director of training for the PsyD program. His clinical areas of interests include positive father involvement, religious and spiritual factors to …

Of all the challenges that threaten the well-being of America’s schoolchildren, one of the most serious and severe is the lack of school counselors and school psychologists. Despite the increased demand for their services, there’s simply not enough professionals in these fields to go around. For instance, the American School Counselor Association recommends that there be one school counselor for …

Open this photo in gallery: Illustration by James Lee Chiahan David Gratzer is a physician and an attending psychiatrist at the Centre for Addiction and Mental Health, where he serves as co-chief of General Adult Psychiatry and Health Systems. He is an associate professor at the University of Toronto. When the days are long, I try to get some fresh …