Word: mentality
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Knowles said he hopes that the guide will clarify these legal issues, which he said may be preventing schools from making comprehensive changes to their mental health programs...
Richard D. Kadison, the chief of mental health at Harvard University Health Services, said yesterday that he is familiar with the work of the Jed Foundation, and echoed the organization’s emphasis on holistic treatment of student distress issues to prevent suicide and student violence...
...said that Harvard looks at each case individually—especially suicide cases, which can involve a wide range of circumstances—and that the University has also taken steps to normalize mental health disorders and reduce the stigma surrounding them on campus...
...Usually, the last person many students want to talk to is a psychiatrist,” Kadison said, adding that Mental Health Services often refers students instead to the Harvard Chaplains or the Bureau of Study Council, where they may feel more comfortable discussing many of their concerns...
...research was hindered by a small sample size, the need to rely on second-hand interpretations of patients' problems, and the fact that the medical community's knowledge of schizophrenia has changed over the past century - their observations are enough to give us pause. While the underlying causes of mental illness have remained the same, the delusions it produces are a distorted, funhouse mirror-type look into our own world. History is almost never viewed through the eyes of the insane, especially not the locked-up, straight-jacketed kind that Big Nurse just wants to subdue. But the mentally...