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...weeks ago, as part of Mental Health Awareness Week, Putnam spoke about that critical sense of belonging and its central importance to mental health. Psychological research in mental health shows that sound social support has demonstrable benefits, including greater longevity, greater functional ability, and better treatment outcomes. While the connection between community and mental health may seem obvious, it is a concept that the Harvard community needs to value more...
...really open up to about your most private feelings without having to hold back?” While a large majority of freshmen could name at least one person, there were 69 students who did not have anyone to share their feelings with. Furthermore, students without any supportive relationships represented half of the small percentage of students who reported any suicidal indicators. Loneliness and isolation are two of the risk factors for depression and can place people at risk for suicide. Both this data and research purport that students with adequate social support have...
...hour urgent care for students who need more immediate help than the appointment process can provide. In addition, students from Harvard’s peer-counseling groups—Room 13, ECHO, Response, and Contact—are readily available for trained peer-to-peer support. A system-wide approach to promoting mental health awareness has been initiated through the Student Mental Health Liaisons. This student group organizes and presents the annual Mental Health Awareness week. The purpose of the event is to widely share knowledge about issues of mental health...
...work together,” said Alice M. Laramore ’11, an intern at the Harvard College Women’s Center who helped plan the events this week. “This event unites all of Harvard’s women’s groups in support of the common goal of Women’s Week...
...recent years, though, Beijing has come under criticism for an approach to Africa that is perhaps more bloodless than it is cuddly. China's support of autocratic regimes, from Zimbabwe to Sudan - where Beijing effectively built up an oil industry from scratch - has exposed the Asian giant to accusations of turning a blind eye to human-rights abuses as it goes about securing natural resources and political influence. China has pumped billions of dollars into infrastructure projects throughout the continent, tying up key contracts in resource-rich states like Angola and the war-torn Democratic Republic of Congo...