Mental Health
Updated Sep 15, 2026 12:00 PM PT
Mental Health Psychologist News
Current reporting, research and professional developments across Mental Health, curated for psychologists and behavioral-health professionals.
Universal Health Services, Inc. UHS has completed its acquisition of virtual behavioral healthcare provider Talkspace, Inc. TALK. The all-cash transaction, valued at approximately $835 million, was ...
But when it becomes a pattern, your anxiety gets worse instead of better.In a video shared on Instagram, Jeffrey Meltzer, a licensed mental health counsellor based in Florida, explained the three ...
Cygnet Health Care was first granted permission for the project in 2018 but building did not begin.
As demand for therapy surges beyond metros, start-ups, hospitals, and investors are working to transform mental healthcare from an awareness movement into a sustainable segment.
People across the South West are set to benefit from faster mental health support closer to home under plans to create new NHS community centres and dedicated emergency departments.
Kentucky lawmakers gathered on Monday in Frankfort to celebrate the rollout of new statutes to help Kentuckians with mental illness.
Decades after being sexually abused, the author and doctor Frank Spinelli believed he had moved on emotionally. But alcohol destroyed his sense of security. He describes how he confronted his shameNot so long ago, Frank…
When comparing the brain scans of people who had been given acupuncture treatments against those on antidepressants or those receiving a placebo version of acupuncture, the researchers found something ...
The Lindsay Clancy murder trial places maternal mental health in the national spotlight, prompting discussions on postpartum depression. Forensic psychiatrist Dr. Daniel Bober joins 'Fox & ...
A state committee met for nearly two years to develop a report on Washington’s behavioral health system. The report seems to have sat on the shelf ever since.
Certain habits, like stress and loneliness, can affect your long-term health more than you realise. Dr London shares what he avoids after 25 years as a surgeon.
Proceeds from the investment will enable Leal Therapeutics to proceed with an initial data readout from LTX-001.
Community of Christ Church in Jefferson City will host a suicide prevention training in partnership with Compass Health Network on Saturday.
Long before modern psychiatry existed, doctors had a very different explanation for depression. They blamed a bodily fluid called black bile. For roughly 2,500 years, this idea shaped how mental ...
Grief isn’t only a response to death. This emotion can be present in the face of any type of loss. “Anytime we have a ...
The services are designed around a community-based, home-like environment where people can receive help from workers with their own lived experience of mental health challenges.
Partners share the activities they do to manage stress and anxiety, and lift the lid on the the institutional barriers to healthy work cultures.
Paula Musgrove stated her daughter had said medications were ‘destroying’ her mind and she was becoming ‘paranoid’The defense in the Lindsay Clancy filicide case called the defendant’s mother as one of its first…
Family mental health can improve when changes are noticed early and addressed with calm, informed support. Families can help by ...
Dr. Sumita Misra outlines Haryana’s mental health blueprint: community care, school counselling, task-sharing, Tele-MANAS and Vision 2030 to expand early, accessible and stigma-free support.
The acquisition links virtual therapy for 200 million covered lives with UHS's 346 inpatient behavioral health facilities ...
People living with severe mental illness face a substantially higher risk of dementia throughout adulthood, as well as a significantly elevated risk of stroke in early and middle adulthood, according ...
Anxiety is one of the most common mental health conditions, and also one of the most misunderstood. It gets treated as a ...
A survey has found that parents may be struggling to recognise how online experiences affect their children's mental health. In a study involving over 300 parents by TOUCH Community Services, almost ...
CDC data show kindergarten vaccination rates remain high, with a slight 0.1% decline in coverage.
This is armchair psychology—when someone with zero professional qualifications—no degree, no licence, no internship, nothing—makes speculations and psychological judgements about people’s behaviours, ...
Having the 'baby blues' is a common emotional response for mums after giving birth. They are often a symptom of the huge physical and hormonal changes experienced after pregnancy. Baby blues usually ...
Lincoln County’s mobile crisis team is changing how the community responds to mental health emergencies by bringing crisis intervention services directly to peo ...
Nearly one in two Australian women with endometriosis or polyendocrine metabolic ovarian syndrome (PMOS) report depression, according to new national ...
Few parents or teachers are likely to suggest that teenagers could benefit from playing more video games. But a new study suggests that a growing class of educational games may be a highly effective tool for treating and…