Positive Psychology News
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Mental health care services around the country are being cut at a rapid pace thanks to the economic condition of the country. From California to Mississippi, from Massachusetts to Texas, mental health services are suffering from slashed state budgets. Even though the need for mental health services continues to rise, most states in the U.S. [...]
‘Normal’ is a word that may not apply to very many people, say mental health experts, when the new Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM) is published in 2013. This Mental Health Bible is being expanded to include so many minor disorders and conditions that nearly everyone in the world will be able [...]
Project 50, a service program launched by the L.A.’s county supervisor Zev Yaroslavsky, was an initiative to find and house 50 of skid row’s worst homeless cases. The motive of “housing first” aimed to find housing for vagrants of the 50 square foot block along L.A.’s notorious skid row. Candidates for Project 50 weren’t mandated [...]
I frequently tramped eight or ten miles through the deepest snow to keep an appointment with a beech-tree, or a yellow birch, or an old acquaintance among the pines.
~Henry David Thoreau
Thoreau may have had it right all along: getting back to nature, in forests and other green settings, is good for your mental health.
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