mental health

Students from several schools in New Haven have walked out and are protesting over mental health funding.

Students, parents and some teachers are continuing to push for more mental health resources in school after the Board of Ed rejected a plan that would add a mental health center.

Within the Department of Mental Health and Addiction Services is the Office of Mental Health Equity, a division dedicated to helping communities of color in need of mental health and substance use assistance through culturally competent programs.

Dr. Peter Lucchio, Clinical Psychologist at Hartford HealthCare’s Bone & Joint Institute, explains why mental health in so important.

Over the last two years, isolation and virtual meetings and schooling have taken a major toll on all of us, particularly though, our young people. It’s become clear even before this session started that children’s mental health would be a priority. A number of bills aimed at addressing those issues already have wide bipartisan support. One of the bills,...

Psychotherapist Deborah Krevalin shares insight.

Students and parents are pleading with the Connecticut Department of Education for an investigation into the Killingly Board of Education after the board rejected plans to bring a school-based mental health center to the high school. In a complaint sent to Connecticut’s commissioner of the Department of Education this week, more than 50 complainants asserted that the Killingly board has…

Back in March, the Killingly Board of Ed voted against a plan to open a school-based health center at the high school. The community is outraged.

Since the pandemic started, experts have warned of a mental health crisis facing American children.

“Goals are dumb,” says Emmanuel Acho, an author and former NFL and Texas Longhorns linebacker. Setting hard goals (get drafted in the first three rounds of the NFL Draft, be married by age 26) was only setting him up for disappointment when things didn’t work out exactly as envisioned. So he developed a new outlook on life and wrote a...

“We’re in the middle of what appears to be a completely unprecedented mental health crisis predating COVID among America’s teens,” says Ed Howard of the Children’s Advocacy Institute. Howard explains how platforms like Instagram and TikTok are designed to keep you scrolling for as long as possible, plus a new California bill that would hold the apps’ developers accountable if...

Maren Morris shares her experience with postpartum depression: “I know that I’m not the only one.”

Want to boost your kids’ confidence and social intelligence? A child psychologist says providing reassurance and validation can make a world of difference. Here’s how parents can do that.

The researchers behind the the 10th annual World Happiness Report say average life evaluations have remained “remarkably resilient during Covid-19.” Here’s what that means.

Finland has been named the world’s happiest country for the fifth year in a row, according to an annual report.

People have always complained about work in therapy, one therapist says, but now they’re feeling more empowered to take action.

Food and mental health are inextricably linked, says Harvard nutritionist and brain expert Dr. Uma Naidoo. Here are the six brain-boosting foods most Americans lack in their diet.

Concerns over nuclear war and inflation — following two years of a pandemic — have Americans more stressed than ever

There are a lot of stressors right now, including COVID, soaring prices of food and gas and the conflict in Ukraine. Experts have some advice for some simple things you can do to feel a little less stress.