My neck of the woods had its first snow yesterday! It wasn’t anything major — just some steady flurries, really — but it lasted several hours and made me happy. I love the first snow of the season; it’s just…magical to me. It always puts me in a good mood.
According to the forecast, it won’t snow any this weekend, but at least I got to enjoy it yesterday.
Anyway, off to this week’s mental health news! Get ready for how the 21st Century Cures Act will affect mental health care, a list of essential habits to help boost your everyday life, how training teachers in mental health could help students, and more.
Should You Try Light Therapy to Treat Seasonal Affective Disorder? A reported 10 million Americans are affected by seasonal affective disorder (SAD) — a kind of depression that creeps up when the seasons change and, especially, when natural light decreases. Light therapy (also known as bright light therapy or phototherapy) is a popular way to treat SAD; however, it’s not without its side effects.
Mental Health Care Gets A Boost From 21st Century Cures Act: The 21st Century Cures Act could be the most substantial mental health legislation since the legislation that mandates equal insurance coverage for mental and physical health, and it’s quite hefty, aiming to fight the opioid addiction; advance for grants to increase the dwindling the country’s population of psychiatrists and psychologists; and push states to put in place early intervention for psychosis.
25 Best Habits to Have in Life: “Habits are an undeniably powerful part of life. They’re an integral part of the underlying behavioral psychology that shapes the direction of our lives. They’re so integral that a study determined that approximately 45 percent of everything we do on a daily basis is driven by our habits.” So how can habits like smiling, practicing gratitude, exercising, setting goals, and inspiring yourself (yes — you do it) work to change your daily life?
Children’s Mental Health Services Are Struggling. Can Teachers Help? Our neighbors across the pond experience some of the same problems we do when it comes to children and mental health services — including how, if at all, teachers can help. Could teachers — and ultimately, their students — benefit from research and other expertise from the National Health Service (NHS)? After all, aren’t teachers the people who see children for the most part of their days?
Lady Gaga Opens Up About Her Mental Illness to LGBT Youth: Lady Gaga’s advocacy in the LGBTQ community and her fight to end mental health stigma isn’t really news; however, the pop singer and actress recently visited the Ali Forney Center in New York City to lead LGBTQ youth in meditation, offer gifts, talk about the kindness she believes is “the cure to violence and hatred around the world,” and open up about her post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD).
Personality Traits, Psychiatric Disorders Linked to Specific Genomic Locations: Researchers from the University of California San Diego School of Medicine report meta-analysis of genome-wide association studies (GWAS) has found six regions of the human genome connected to personality traits and psychiatric disorders.
from World of Psychology http://psychcentral.com/blog/archives/2016/12/10/psychology-around-the-net-december-10-2016/
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