Word: mentality
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...Each local unit balances the necessary mix of volunteers. Nurses now comprise almost one-third of MRC volunteers nationwide; furthermore, more than 13,000 doctors with specialties ranging from surgery to psychiatry have signed up. Other committed medical and public health volunteers include pharmacists, veterinarians, dentists, and mental health professionals, while non-medical volunteers can assist with logistics, administration, planning, and communication. Of particular note, students are playing an increasingly vital role; over a dozen units are based primarily in colleges and universities and more than a hundred have student volunteer members...
...Cambridge Kids’ Council—which studies youth issues in order to make policy recommendations—announced last night that it would examine the link between students’ home and school environments and their mental health at a meeting of city officials and community members. Karen A. Hacker, executive director of the Institute for Community Health and a professor at Harvard Medical School, presented findings from the most recent mental health surveys conducted at the city’s middle and high schools. The results, which were broken down by race and language spoken at home...
...some time to develop. Entering his freshman year competing for the Crimson, Schreck discovered he had a lot to learn. “Collegiate rowing is a totally different world from high school rowing in a number of different respects,” Schreck observed. “The mental aspect, the training, the racing, everything is just a level up in intensity.”Despite the adjustment period, Schreck has learned much—and thrived—under Parker’s tutelage. Since rowing in the second freshman eight, Schreck has worked his way up. Last...
...students who did come to the meeting brought with them stories of friends who had appeared before the Ad Board. From these anecdotes came concerns over a rule that requires that students leave campus immediately once they are told they must withdraw, preventing them from seeking mental health counseling at University Health Services...
Crazy for Art. Following its popular 2007 retrospective of self-taught 20th-century artist Martin Ramirez - who produced the bulk of his work while he was a mental patient at the DeWitt State Hospital in Auburn, Calif. - New York City's American Folk Art Museum is now showing 25 newly discovered Ramirez works. These drawings and collages, of horseback riders, trains, landscapes, Madonnas and animals, were done in Ramirez's last years, 1960-63, and collected by a doctor who provided the artist with art supplies. See Martin Ramirez: The Last Words through Apr. 12, 2009. 45 West 53rd Street...