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...failed to make a significant stride towards better care in the Houses. At the start of the fall semester, Harvard created the Student Mental Health Task Force to recommend ways to improve the system of mental healthcare at Harvard. Just last month, Harvard hired Paul J. Barreira, a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital and chair of the task force, to oversee mental health services at the University starting July 1. But while Barreira has said that students will see changes in residential support as early as the fall, the task force’s proposal to identify and provide additional training...
...discuss the family's health without singling anyone out," she says. "One thing you don't want to say is, 'I've got one skinny kid and one overweight kid.'" Sometimes kids want to talk about a weight problem, but it's best to listen for their cues, says psychiatrist Denise Wilfley of Washington University in St. Louis, Mo. Books can also open up conversations. For ages 9 to 12, Dalton suggests Paula Danziger's The Cat Ate My Gymsuit, Judy Blume's Blubber or Jelly Belly by Robert Kimmel Smith...
...Paul J. Barreira, a psychiatrist at McLean Hospital, will oversee Harvard’s mental health outreach and services—bridging the former divide between the Bureau of Study Counsel and University Health Services (UHS) Mental Health Services—starting July...
...Ghraib prison fit into the canon of torture tactics? Soldiers claim they were told by military intelligence officers to "soften up" the detainees for questioning. Certainly, putting hoods over prisoners' heads and stripping them naked would conform to common, if primitive, interrogation-prep tactics. Ilan Kutz, an Israeli psychiatrist who has witnessed military training for interrogations, confirms that sexual humiliation is also a well-known tool. "The idea of interrogation is to break down the person so all his resistance is shot, and then he'll tell you anything," he says. "In the process, sexual humiliation is certainly not excluded...
...Ambition has a bad name," says Manhattan psychiatrist Anna Fels, author of Necessary Dreams: Ambition in Women's Changing Lives (Pantheon). The drive to excel and achieve is universal, says Fels, 55, but women often become conflicted about it. Her extensive research documents the reasons. TIME spoke with...